okay so heres my point of view.
I´m gonna tell my story and my experience with petsmart. That doesnt mean that EVERY petstore is like that. (even though I think at least 85 % are.)
We bought our little baby bearded Dragon at petsmart. Why we bought him there?well lets say, we were young and silly or better lets say it was AFTER all those experiences that we realized the truth.
Anyways the little guy was sold as "fency bearded dragon" for 110 Dollar. idk but I think they sell any bearded dragon as "Fency". We "visited" him for about a week before we picked him up and in this week we got three different answers about his age. From "a couple weeks" to "3 or 4 months". (We now found out that he was only about 4 weeks at that point). They couldnt give us a lot of information and almost everything they told us was wrong. They sold us the Repti Glo and gave us a UVB light after I(!) mentioned it. And of course they gave us the advice to feed him mealworms. And 2(!!!) crickets a day! And theses advices came from an ex beardie owner. Poor little guy..thats probably why she HAD a bd :?
One day I thought Spikey had parasite(Luckily that was false alarm), so I called them and asked them if they would pay for the bill. They gave us a 14 day warranty.(I really dont like havin a "warranty" on something living..anyways) so they told me they wouldnt.Id have to bring him to petsmart and they would take care of him & then when he gets better I could get him back. I would never ever bring him back to petsmart. The enclosure was so small, loose crickets everywhere(in other tanks.Probably for those eating more than 2 crickets a day :x ), the humidity seemed pretty high(cause it was so small in there and he had a big water dish) and then theres the thing with the mealworms.
A few days ago we went there to buy new crickets and they had a new BD, he was so tiny and skinny.We asked about the age and the rediciolus answer was "ehm about 4- 5 month". I really had to crack a smile. You should have seen it. It looked like newly hatched.
We´re so happy cause we found a new pet store today. No -name, but they have all different kinds of worms and live foods there.They sell BD as well, and they live in big enclosures, with prober light and heat.And the baby ones (same age that spikey was when we got him) had a sign on the tank "Not ready to go home yet", which made me really happy. At least they dont try to sell the small, cute babys just to make a fast buck.
I´m gonna tell my story and my experience with petsmart. That doesnt mean that EVERY petstore is like that. (even though I think at least 85 % are.)
We bought our little baby bearded Dragon at petsmart. Why we bought him there?well lets say, we were young and silly or better lets say it was AFTER all those experiences that we realized the truth.
Anyways the little guy was sold as "fency bearded dragon" for 110 Dollar. idk but I think they sell any bearded dragon as "Fency". We "visited" him for about a week before we picked him up and in this week we got three different answers about his age. From "a couple weeks" to "3 or 4 months". (We now found out that he was only about 4 weeks at that point). They couldnt give us a lot of information and almost everything they told us was wrong. They sold us the Repti Glo and gave us a UVB light after I(!) mentioned it. And of course they gave us the advice to feed him mealworms. And 2(!!!) crickets a day! And theses advices came from an ex beardie owner. Poor little guy..thats probably why she HAD a bd :?
One day I thought Spikey had parasite(Luckily that was false alarm), so I called them and asked them if they would pay for the bill. They gave us a 14 day warranty.(I really dont like havin a "warranty" on something living..anyways) so they told me they wouldnt.Id have to bring him to petsmart and they would take care of him & then when he gets better I could get him back. I would never ever bring him back to petsmart. The enclosure was so small, loose crickets everywhere(in other tanks.Probably for those eating more than 2 crickets a day :x ), the humidity seemed pretty high(cause it was so small in there and he had a big water dish) and then theres the thing with the mealworms.
A few days ago we went there to buy new crickets and they had a new BD, he was so tiny and skinny.We asked about the age and the rediciolus answer was "ehm about 4- 5 month". I really had to crack a smile. You should have seen it. It looked like newly hatched.
We´re so happy cause we found a new pet store today. No -name, but they have all different kinds of worms and live foods there.They sell BD as well, and they live in big enclosures, with prober light and heat.And the baby ones (same age that spikey was when we got him) had a sign on the tank "Not ready to go home yet", which made me really happy. At least they dont try to sell the small, cute babys just to make a fast buck.