Bad pet shop

[jools]

Originally Posted by Welsh dragon

Thank you jools I will certainly do that on monday. Do you think it would be ok to ring them even though I have reported the shop to RSPCA?.

Absolutely, yes. The excuse that may well be given by the pet shop (and it is legitimate to SOME extent) is that this is temporary housing and so can be far more basic than the permanent housing they would recommend to customers. Things like substrate choice are open to debate and you would have difficulty proving that this was unsatisfactory.

[Jczreptiles]

Originally Posted by rbailey182

Try and keep with the council approach mate. The R.S.P.C.A will probably only slap there wrists a little bit and leave it at that.

But good on you for trying to sort it out.

Richard.

Or confiscate the bad animals and them PTS.

[paynestaley]

Hello, as you're from South Wales (like me) I'm assuming Cardiff Council cover the area the pet shop is in. If so have a look at this page Cardiff - Home, Animal Related Licences, Animal related licences - there is a list of the standard conditions pet shops need to meet to enable them to have a licence. If you know that the shop is not meeting one or more of these conditions, for example look at numbers 2.1, 2.8, 6.1, 6.2, 6.4, then their licence needs to be reviewed. The number at the bottom of the link page is for the council licensing section, it's them you need to speak to and don't let them fob you off with ignorance. Well done for reporting it, you should definitely follow this up because I wouldn't trust the RSPCA to do anything. I'm curious to know which shop it is now!

[ReptileJord]

tell the police, RSPCA will take more notice if the police tell them

[.D.o.m.i.n.o.]

What shop isit?

[callum gohrisch]

confront them and ask them nd mabey they will lissen 2 the costumers

[Welsh dragon]

Its Swansea so it comes under Swansea City council.......I did approach the shop sales person and he tried fobbing me off by telling me they switch lights throught the day , complete codswollup I been in there in the mornings and I been in there in the afternoons and that beardie has had the same candle bulb in there. the poor thing is now getting weaker and weaker and I am really worried about him.

[paynestaley]

Here it says that only local councils, animal health officers and the police have the power to enforce the Animal Welfare Act Animal welfare and advice : Directgov - Home and community So you should report it to Swansea Council Pet Shops - City and County of Swansea , but if you think the beardie needs more urgent action then tell the police, after all animal cruelty is against the law, and it is cruel to be keeping the beardie in conditions that do not meet his needs, ie little heat and no UV. Can you see what the temps are? Best to provide them with as many facts as possible.

[CharlieBrown]

I say fair play to you to be honest!
I bet the shop has lots of people walking in and out of it daily and no one bothers to stand up and shout! The animals did not ask to be put there so therfore should be looked after well, its so crewl.
A local reptile shop local to me is bad too. not just the animal care but glass broken on some vivs, pipes and wires running across the floors.
When we visited a second reptile shop up the road from this one there was a vast difference in the care and attitude they gave and the way they treated the animals, this was clear from the moment I walked in. I bought up the state of the first shop and he had nothing but negitive comments about them, not because there competition to him but because of what customers have told him!
i know the shop has been reported therfore I have not done this myself.

[Welsh dragon]

Same here I went to shop in a garden centre yesterday and its a pleasure to go there with everything as it should be. And the person working there has said he`s had lots of cutomers comming in telling him about baby beardies they have bought at this bad pet shop who have died after about 3 days because of the substrate they kept on, He said I am not the first person who has reported them, but if its been reported in the past, why has nothing changed I would like to know?