ilovepeanut
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Tonight I went out to the pet shop near my apartment that I've visited a couple times in the past to purchase some crickets for my beardies and I noticed they had approximately ten stub-tail babies for $20/ea. A great bargain for these healthy little ones, and as I looked closer I saw a sign that said "all sold." I was suspicious as to who would be buying all of them in one shot, and thought it may be someone looking to buy them and resell at a higher price.
Thinking that would be the worst casinario, I proceeded to ask the friendly man working there who had purchased them, and brought up the idea to him that it seemed like someone was trying to make some extra cash. In response I got the shock of my life. He said that a hard, long term meth user came in and decided he out of random wanted to buy them all as decoration.
He continued to tell me that they would be housed in multiple TINY cages that were being removed from the store wall itself (much smaller than those at Petsmart). He said, "this guy smokes the pipe, doesn't sell the product," in a very upset tone. I could tell he did not want to sell them to this man, but had no choice because the owner of the store is a big time jerk and forced the sale to continue.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing!
Those poor few week old babies.. I don't know how they're even going to survive. I feel so terrible. 
Thinking that would be the worst casinario, I proceeded to ask the friendly man working there who had purchased them, and brought up the idea to him that it seemed like someone was trying to make some extra cash. In response I got the shock of my life. He said that a hard, long term meth user came in and decided he out of random wanted to buy them all as decoration.
He continued to tell me that they would be housed in multiple TINY cages that were being removed from the store wall itself (much smaller than those at Petsmart). He said, "this guy smokes the pipe, doesn't sell the product," in a very upset tone. I could tell he did not want to sell them to this man, but had no choice because the owner of the store is a big time jerk and forced the sale to continue.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing!
Those poor few week old babies.. I don't know how they're even going to survive. I feel so terrible. 
