Beardie4me
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I just came from my usual Petco store in North Kansas City, MO. Although I was there to buy dog and cat food, I can never go into any petstore without perusing the reptile section! To my dismay, they are now selling baby beardies. They had seven babies in a small enclosure and they were on about 2" of sand. They all had sand on them, and they had drug sand into their water dish to where there was no water whatsoever in the bowl. I promptly went to the aquatic supervisor and told her that the baby beardies were in desparate need of attention - no water, filthy (feces/urine) enclosure and that putting babies on sand was a major no-no and that they were setting them up to get impacted and possibly die. I also told her that these babies would eventually start "biting" and "sniping" at each other which would result in deformities. She said she personally knew that they were not supposed to be on sand but that "corporate" makes them do it. She did immediately go and clean the sand out of the water dish, but that was it. I asked her if it would help if I e-mailed their corporate office and told them they should never put babies on sand and she said, "Go ahead. Maybe if more people spoke up they would let us do it right." I did. I also told them everything that was wrong and that if they were going to sell reptiles that they should do extensive research :study: and have at least one person come onto this website to ensure happy and healthy beardies. Not sure if it will do any good, but if we all e-mail Petco with this complaint, maybe they will listen????