CaptainMorgantown
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Hello,
So I work at this little exotic pet store in the middle of town. We take excellent care of all of our animals, and the health and happiness of our animals is our number one priority. There is another store across town that is our competitor, and was actually another location of our pet store. However, due to a series of events, my manager cut all ties with the other store and left the woman that owned that location to her own devices. The other store is bigger than the one that I am at, but they constantly lose customers because of how rude they all are.
Recently, several people have told me how a lot of their animals are dying. One woman brought in a savannah monitor to us that she had bought from the other store because they were starving it. They told her that they didn't think anyone was going to buy it, so they were just waiting for it to die (we restored it back to good health BTW). Anyway, we have been told so many stories this week that I decided to go up to the other store and have a look around. It was horrifying.
I have been keeping frogs for a while now, so they are very close to my heart. They had about seven or eight different kinds of geckos, frogs, and anoles in a twenty gallon short tank with wood chips as substrate. There were dried up frogs all over the tank, and one of the anoles was missing it's snout. In another tank, there was a dead baby leopard gecko in with a huge adult leo gecko. Luckily, none of their chams looked like they had MBD, but they had about ten of them in a screen cage that it looked like was a tall one, but they turned it on it's side so that it was short. The sizes of them ranged from a little baby to one that was about six inches long, not including tail. They all had a albino veiled chameleon (in it's own cage) that was labeled as a carpet chameleon, and they were asking 300 for it.
I told my boss all of this, but she is a very nice sweet older lady, and I don't think that she wants to start trouble. Something needs to be done about this though. It made me so sad and angry to go in there. I used to have a friend that worked there about a year ago, before it got really bad up there, and I found out that she was fired because she got into an argument with the manager because of the way the animals were being treated.
Is there anyone that I can report them to or anything that can be done?
So I work at this little exotic pet store in the middle of town. We take excellent care of all of our animals, and the health and happiness of our animals is our number one priority. There is another store across town that is our competitor, and was actually another location of our pet store. However, due to a series of events, my manager cut all ties with the other store and left the woman that owned that location to her own devices. The other store is bigger than the one that I am at, but they constantly lose customers because of how rude they all are.
Recently, several people have told me how a lot of their animals are dying. One woman brought in a savannah monitor to us that she had bought from the other store because they were starving it. They told her that they didn't think anyone was going to buy it, so they were just waiting for it to die (we restored it back to good health BTW). Anyway, we have been told so many stories this week that I decided to go up to the other store and have a look around. It was horrifying.
I have been keeping frogs for a while now, so they are very close to my heart. They had about seven or eight different kinds of geckos, frogs, and anoles in a twenty gallon short tank with wood chips as substrate. There were dried up frogs all over the tank, and one of the anoles was missing it's snout. In another tank, there was a dead baby leopard gecko in with a huge adult leo gecko. Luckily, none of their chams looked like they had MBD, but they had about ten of them in a screen cage that it looked like was a tall one, but they turned it on it's side so that it was short. The sizes of them ranged from a little baby to one that was about six inches long, not including tail. They all had a albino veiled chameleon (in it's own cage) that was labeled as a carpet chameleon, and they were asking 300 for it.
I told my boss all of this, but she is a very nice sweet older lady, and I don't think that she wants to start trouble. Something needs to be done about this though. It made me so sad and angry to go in there. I used to have a friend that worked there about a year ago, before it got really bad up there, and I found out that she was fired because she got into an argument with the manager because of the way the animals were being treated.
Is there anyone that I can report them to or anything that can be done?