Very bad shop plz read!

[Reptilerescueden]

There is an aquarium near me in Bolton that has recently started to sell reptiles. They have a baby royal for £54.50 who is an assisted feeder. It has nly had two feeds, no other feeding record from where is came from previous to this aquarium shop. It's triangular in shape also. but it is still for sale. If you wanted a royal that feeds normaly the shop assistant told me to go and pay more else where! I told them that they shouldn't be selling this snake and of course it went down like a lead balloon. In the end I just said that the poor snake is going to die cos they don't know what they are doing!
They have turtles too, one was rather puffy so I told them it was sick as it was a sign of illness... they didn't want to know. Not to mention the water of the turtles was filthy.
Though they was using UV lights all was situated far too high to benifit the animals. The shop is pathetic!
The name of the shop ....well I shouldn't really name and shame them but it goes under one of the names of ********. However not sure i should use their full name but your welcome to PM or email me for it.

[NNY]

Thats shocking. Looks like you'll have more reptiles to look after soon when people buy them and can't look after them because they're so ill. Is there anything you can do about it?

[SilverSteno]

I think its high time there was a clamp down on these bad shops and the THINGS running them were banned from keeping animals for the rest of their sad little lives

[Reptilerescueden]

I'm certainly going to try and do something about it. I even got a bollocking off my hubby because i stood up and spoke my freaking mind. Told hubby if he didn'nt like it then wait in the f*cking car LOL.

[DeanThorpe]

some people only care what reptiles can earn them they don't deserve the custom they get isn't there any animal welfare agency that can help the poor reps glad there are people out there that have the guts to tell these idiots what they are doing wrong and destroying the reps

trese

[cornmorphs]

sorry, i had to remove the name as we dont want t-bo getting sued.
i do this myself on other forums so i know how annoying it is... best you can do is pm anybody that asks you the shop name, at least it not in the pbulic that way.
i agree though, it sounds bad

[Reptilerescueden]

LOL Nige the name i put on here isnt the proper shop name just what it is known by locally but i understand so no worries mate

[cornmorphs]

ah right, i dont give a monkeys to be honest... at the end of the day a shop wants praise if you think they are good, so why shouldnt we be able to tell people the bad ones too? makes sense to me... unfortunately this poxy country decides to sue people for farting too loud lol, so we cant say anything, which is wrong, but hey nevermind... at least we can tell each other behind the scenes

[Reptilerescueden]

Went in again yesturday and well I walked away breaking my heart yesturday.They had a viv full of baby dragons, 2 of which was clearly dying. I ask the floor manager about them, told him who I was and that i wanted to take them to our vets. of course he refused saying the shop would deal with them. Upon leaving a young girl put them in little cricket tubs. I was furious.
Same shop assistant sold an albino leopard gecko to a man who was going to keep it will a chamealeon, she said just try them for 10 mins to see if they would be ok. of course i jumped in and said NO YOU CAN'T. But off he went with the gecko.
Not to mention the vivs was disgusting. full of poo and had dirty water and mouldy food bowls.
I cried all they way home. phoned the council but the guy i need to speak with wasn't there. Phoned the dreaded RSPCA and reported them. Phoned the manager and of course got fobbed off. I hate that shop and will do all I can to either get them to stop selling reptiles or to look after them properly.

[Lol999]

Of course this is a double edged sword, but how about reporting them to one of the anti-reptile as pets groups? Surely they would be interested and might do something? I don't know about Bolton but round our way you have to have a qualified person, i.e. having quals in rep care, to manage a reptile area or you don't get a license from the council. i know this because one large garden centre spent months trying to get someone before they could open up.

Cheers, Lol