LunarTechAsylum
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Over the weekend we went into town to a gals house to purchase a bunch of mealworms, the lady ended up not being able to be there so she had her husband come home to give us the worms and show us how hers were set up. (As I am startign my own colony) He took us through a crowded small town house with 4 kids, 5 dogs, into a tiny basement room where she apparently runs her reptile 'rescue' out of. There were mostly shelves with drawers and snakes in them, a few chameleons one of which had a huge eye abcess, and then on the far wall were some dirty tanks with bad lighting and sick looking beardies. The one on the bottom looked at deaths door, or close to it, all were scrawny. However I dont like to judge people so I kept telling myself that they were probably rescues she was nursing back to health.
During our conversation with her husband he mentions that when they get beardies that are old or too sick to help, they simply stick them in a bucket, put them in a freezer, and they 'go to sleep'. I've never heard of this before, is there any way this is humane? I would imagine that they can feel themselves freezing to death before it knocks them into brumation...Should I report them? I dont like meddling in other peoples affairs but I dont like seeing animals mistreated either. they are a so called rescue...in my eyes that means they should be giving these animals the best life they can even if its just making them comfortable until they pass. I don't know how anyone could stand by as they froze an animal....if they were a rescue they could do fundraisers, sign them over to a shelter/vet office, or get an arrangement with a vet office to put them down at low cost....
So the question remains, should I report them? If so, who to? :?
During our conversation with her husband he mentions that when they get beardies that are old or too sick to help, they simply stick them in a bucket, put them in a freezer, and they 'go to sleep'. I've never heard of this before, is there any way this is humane? I would imagine that they can feel themselves freezing to death before it knocks them into brumation...Should I report them? I dont like meddling in other peoples affairs but I dont like seeing animals mistreated either. they are a so called rescue...in my eyes that means they should be giving these animals the best life they can even if its just making them comfortable until they pass. I don't know how anyone could stand by as they froze an animal....if they were a rescue they could do fundraisers, sign them over to a shelter/vet office, or get an arrangement with a vet office to put them down at low cost....
So the question remains, should I report them? If so, who to? :?