reptile rescue centres in kent?????

[tom1400]

hi everyone just wondered if anyone knew of any reptile rescue centres in kent?
thanks tom.

[whufc_fan85]

Why do you need one?

Do you need to re-home a reptile or are you looking to take some more on?

[tom1400]

I would like to get a female beardy even though the chances are low. I am always wanted to upgrade my collection.

[whufc_fan85]

Wow chances of getting a FEMALE beardie from any rescue center is really low mate.

On the off-chance though have you tried the usual channels (google, yell.co.uk, etc) ??

Also try local classifieds and newspapers, you might get lucky.

[tom1400]

ye i have been looking for about a month now and they are all quite pricey. I'm only 16 and not on good money. Some people are trying to seel a female for £300. I'll have to keep looking

£300 for a female beardie????????????????
female beardies are like £50ish give or take a few quid!

[Moshpitviper]

Speaking as a rescue centre who are plagued year in and year out by beardies (not that plague is a nice word but we get a heck of a lot of beardies) I have had ONE female out of about 60 or so beardies over the years. and she was seriously disabled. tbh I think the reptile market is truly flooded with beardies, there is absolutely NO excuse for breeding them. the only excuse people usually have is ..... 'because i can'. I find people still breeed a lot of animals irresponsibly ie iggys, turtles etc that they simply can not shift... at least not to anyone who will give it a good home. corns are even going the same way, bred in far to high numbers these days. not that i am assuming you ARE going to breed if you acquire a female. you may well not keep them together. or even if you do you may take the responsible route and smash the eggs. who is to say? anyway my point is..... lets think before we breed any old animal. there are far more species deserving our help. we should be concentrating on more threatened species and less on the 'ten a penny' ones. and not to touch too much on the (truly whack) morph market..... remember when you play god.... there is no going back. geentics have spent millions of years honing themselves to perfection. who are we to attempt to alter evolution?

[Moshpitviper]

Also the chances of finding a £50 female adult vitticeps is truly laughable. about £250 is the norm, although i have seen them go for up to £400. you may well find a youngster for £50 but then how do you know its female? you CAN NOT tell the gender of a BD until its at LEAST 14 months old.. with any degree of accuracy anyway. of course thats just my two cents, if anyone would like to add their opinion on this then i'm up for that.

am i missing something here lol?!

ReptileWeb Classifieds - Adult female bearded dragon