Get info 1st Please!!!!!!

[sparkle]

I am split on this one.

What if a breeder or a pet shop give BAD advice..

I had to help a lady last month that was told by a reptile pet shop to have the basking bulb on ALL night and day

And to feed the baby 2 crickets a day

so she would not have known this was wrong.

I dont get angry at that sort of issue what annoys me are keepers who wont listen to basics even after they start threads .. and argue their way is right even when experienced keepers give excellent factual rasons why they need to make changes for the wellbeing of the animal.

I appreciate we all may vary our husbandry slightly but there are still some fundamental basic rules to keep our reps healthy and cared for ..

whther that be correct temps.. humidity , UV or stats for all heating appliances.

Id prefer newbies asked what seemed ridiculous questions that an animal suffer... however it is obviously prefarable to research first

[discodazz]

thats the main point. it is preferable to do research first. theres nothing stopping newbies asking on here before they buy.
most reptiles available in shops have been kept by others already so theres no real need to learn from mistakes when theres enough care sheets and info available beforehand.
thankfully most of the rep shops round me wouldnt sell to people that they thought couldnt give proper care but there are a few.

[jesuslovestheladies]

Originally Posted by tomsdragons

thats the problem, greedy shops!
To many young wanna be steve irwins, and to many people breeding to make some pointless quick money to buy a new computer game, its wrong, and silly.

when you go into a shop and buy a pc game does the clerk ask you if you know what your doing? its not the shops responsibility, as is the point of the thread, its the responisbility of the customer to do all the research first. if the customers asks the shop keeper, fair game. but shop keepers shouldnt be expected to deliver on site lectures in animal husbandary as thats putting all the responsibility on pet shop owners and not the customers them selves who should be doing pre-research as standard.

[sahunk]

totally agree! anyone of almost any age could look after reps if they just looked up on them! Im only 13, and started keeping reps when i was 11 and boy did i research! when i got them, it was nice a easy and no complications! Even before i got mine i was giving out advice to soime people who had done just this! glad you brought up the subject!

[Torres13]

Originally Posted by emma_fyfe

yep i agree, but its no point bitching on here as it'll only scare these people off. At least theyre coming on and asking for help now,even if it is late, instead of carrying on not knowing how to look after them. People make mistakes, and impulse buy etc, and hopefully they wont do it again. If you make threads like this(ive seen quite a few in the past) then its not helping, as the owners wont bother coming on, and its the animals that will end up suffering

I agree with Emma here.
It does get annoying and tiresome answering the same questions when research should have been done. But at least they have the sense to ask when they want help. Its better that they ask and we give the help and then next time they will do research first. The other option is not asking and having the said animal/reptile suffer

[discodazz]

Originally Posted by jesuslovestheladies

when you go into a shop and buy a pc game does the clerk ask you if you know what your doing? its not the shops responsibility, as is the point of the thread, its the responisbility of the customer to do all the research first. if the customers asks the shop keeper, fair game. but shop keepers shouldnt be expected to deliver on site lectures in animal husbandary as thats putting all the responsibility on pet shop owners and not the customers them selves who should be doing pre-research as standard.

the difference is a pc game or a toaster or whatever wont die in your care due to lack of knowledge. im not saying that its all the shopkeepers fault but would you sell something that youve bred to someone that cant provide for the animal.

[emma_fyfe]

id never sell any animal to anyone who i know does not know about how to care for the animal. I also wouldnt come on here moaning about these kinds of people, as its only the animals who suffer.

basically, if you dont like them asking questions, then dont read or reply to their threads. theres plenty of other people who have the time, patience and knowledge to help them in a mature way.

[dracco]

I always do reseatch but its alo good to ask advice from people who have kept the reps as sometime you get conflicting advice when you research so getting peoples personal experience can be good

[Meko]

Originally Posted by sparkle

I am split on this one.

What if a breeder or a pet shop give BAD advice..

I had to help a lady last month that was told by a reptile pet shop to have the basking bulb on ALL night and day

And to feed the baby 2 crickets a day

so she would not have known this was wrong.

agree with you there, people piss and moan about people not doing research. if you went into a pet shop to buy some food for your goldfish and saw a leopard gecko, thought it looked cute and asked how hard they were to look after you'd take the pet shops advice for it.

how much reseach do you actually need to do to buy a rep?
if you were going to post a basic care guide for a leo or beardie i bet you could do it in under 20 lines on here.



what grinds my goat is when people own pets that they can't even spell the name of; jerbils, hampsters, bearded dragens etc etc

[TnJ]

Sometimes the wanna - be newbies read too much information and get confused, so it then becomes easier to ask a question that may have been asked loads before and see the answers you are given from that.

Before we got our first two snakes, I did loads of research, trailing the web for information and reading books and asking people i knew for advice. But in the end alot of the information i had was conflicting, so I came in here and asked questions that had been asked before and got replies and took it from there.

Over one year on and my snakes are doing great and i'm glad i suffered the embarrassment of repeating a question.