TurtugaTom
Member
A lot of you are going to disagree with this because it will make lizards harder to own but its for the lizards sake 1000s of people buy reptiles not knowing a thing about them and because of this the reptile suffers some people also just buy it because it looks cool and the animals sits in a cages its entire life because maybe it bit them or there to scared to touch it because of this i want a class to be required to own a reptile this would help many things number one sadly it will most likely cause money because even if do get enough signatures as a 15 yr old i will most likely not have much say in how it is done but this will be semi positive because in most situations if you cant afford 50-100 or more dollars for a permit and class then you cant afford to give the reptile the care it deserves. I know this is not true in all situations as i was relatively poor in the past and took excellent care of my snake but i think this would also help because it will make sure people who get a reptile actually really care and don't just want it cause it looks cool it will make it so most of the people with reptiles are willing to put in the time effort and money required to give these animals a happy life another thing i hope to change is the way these animals are treated at pet stores as many of you have probably seen they have sometimes more then 5 lizards in the same cage and most lizards are highly territorial they are also often missing fingers and toes due to fighting and not well fed due to food dominance by the biggest lizards and because the stores do not provide enough food for all of the reptiles if they were to put a whole bunch of territorial starving dogs in a cage together and throw in a stake every once in a while in a public place it would be shut down in a week it is not fair reptiles don't get this same treatment if you agree with this movement please share my petition has stoped growing and this disappoints me i feel as if people are putting there wants over the lizards needs which i understand because the government will probably make it expensive which will suck but i think it will be Better for the reptiles in the end if i can get a couple thousand signatures i intend to get and attorney and try to make this happen but it wont be easy i will need lots of help and lots of support please share if you agree