Thank you everyone for your thoughts and kind words.
Being home now it's weird to go into my bedroom and see his empty tank with his towels still in it. I probably need to get rid of the tank now.
Side note story - still regarding Oscar though. I think that store LIED to me about someone just "turning him in" the day before I found him. I went there on Friday to get hornworms (I can't keep up with my B & E's demand with what I've been ordering from Rob) because I wanted them to eat for sure while I was gone. It was hard enough for me to even just walk in there but sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do. (needless to say I refused to support their business and buy their hornworms)
There were 6 adults out - 3 per cage - their nails looked like they hadn't been cut in like 6 months - one tank had sand and the other had wood chips. (there was a tank of babies and a tank of juvies too)
I asked the kid working if I could see one of them - Her fat pads on the top of her head were NON-existent - they were concave holes - it was disgusting - and she had some obvious MBD - major kink in her back bone. As I was holding her I noticed a lot of excess skin and I asked the kid if she had just laid a clutch of eggs and he said yes - and yet she was still being housed with another female and male in a like 18" square tank. I explained to the kid that she was sick and needed attention and should be alone- had signs of MBD and needed to regain weight with some food and needed calcium. His response was "well yea all it would take is calcium and a UVB light" WELL NO CRAP - so why didn't she have it? Both tanks were dirty - at least a couple days of poop. Oh and her price - $150 - again are you flipping kidding me?
I was so furious at this point - I also had a debate about sand substrate with him. His response was "well dragons have lived on sand for forever and in the wild they live in it" - I said no actually they live in rocky environments and just because something has been done for years doesn't mean it's right to which he responded "well I don't agree"
I mentioned that I rescued a dragon 2 months ago from their store and just had to put him to sleep the night prior so this obviously shows your store doesn't properly take care of their dragons.
I doubled checked the owner's name and said I will be writing a letter. I left and called the animal control officers of both neighboring cities to see if they could do anything (left messages)- this was at 4 pm on Friday so hopefully I'll hear something tomorrow.
What else can I do? Who do you contact about mistreatment in a store?
Being home now it's weird to go into my bedroom and see his empty tank with his towels still in it. I probably need to get rid of the tank now.
Side note story - still regarding Oscar though. I think that store LIED to me about someone just "turning him in" the day before I found him. I went there on Friday to get hornworms (I can't keep up with my B & E's demand with what I've been ordering from Rob) because I wanted them to eat for sure while I was gone. It was hard enough for me to even just walk in there but sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do. (needless to say I refused to support their business and buy their hornworms)
There were 6 adults out - 3 per cage - their nails looked like they hadn't been cut in like 6 months - one tank had sand and the other had wood chips. (there was a tank of babies and a tank of juvies too)
I asked the kid working if I could see one of them - Her fat pads on the top of her head were NON-existent - they were concave holes - it was disgusting - and she had some obvious MBD - major kink in her back bone. As I was holding her I noticed a lot of excess skin and I asked the kid if she had just laid a clutch of eggs and he said yes - and yet she was still being housed with another female and male in a like 18" square tank. I explained to the kid that she was sick and needed attention and should be alone- had signs of MBD and needed to regain weight with some food and needed calcium. His response was "well yea all it would take is calcium and a UVB light" WELL NO CRAP - so why didn't she have it? Both tanks were dirty - at least a couple days of poop. Oh and her price - $150 - again are you flipping kidding me?
I was so furious at this point - I also had a debate about sand substrate with him. His response was "well dragons have lived on sand for forever and in the wild they live in it" - I said no actually they live in rocky environments and just because something has been done for years doesn't mean it's right to which he responded "well I don't agree"
I mentioned that I rescued a dragon 2 months ago from their store and just had to put him to sleep the night prior so this obviously shows your store doesn't properly take care of their dragons.
I doubled checked the owner's name and said I will be writing a letter. I left and called the animal control officers of both neighboring cities to see if they could do anything (left messages)- this was at 4 pm on Friday so hopefully I'll hear something tomorrow.
What else can I do? Who do you contact about mistreatment in a store?
Sounds like all they want to do is breed and sell babies to make money. Scum bags. Ya know, when you had initially explained how you came about Oscar, I thought maybe the "hole" in his tail might've been from being bitten by another dragon. Clearly, they're housing multiple animals in small enclosures. That's gonna cause fighting. Maybe try contacting your local SPCA to report them too... Probably a better chance with them doing something than Animal Control. I'm sorry you had to see that after everything you went through with poor Oscar.
