Precisely why I said NOT ALL pet shops.Certainly, most of the points raised so far are pretty generalised (except for selling at stupidly high prices - I can agree with that). I'm not convinced that it's true of the industry as a whole to say that the animals are not well looked after, staff don't know anything about them, don't properly clean or enrich the enclosures, they're after a quick buck, and won't give support to the new owners after they leave the shop.
Precisely why I said NOT ALL pet shops.
If you have found a pet shop that you believe looks after it's animals well and gives good, accurate follow up advice then by all means shop there - nobody is telling you not to. If I found a place like that I would shop there too. I would have thought it was pretty obvious that when people bad mouth pet shops they don't include the good ones..
Every pet shop I have been in, in most facets, are around for a quick buck and aren't looking after their animals properly. The pet shops brought up in flaming threads on this site are precisely those kind of pet shops and I think it's pretty easy to see why people won't buy livestock from them.
You **** stirrer, haha.
I don't agree with selling certain animals to the public from pet stores (i'm actually mainly thinking of dogs here) because it does give the careless non research seeking type of shoppers a chance to take home an animal that they otherwise may not consider but the licensing system does decrease the chances of that when it comes to reptiles.. maybe it's a good thing they're so over priced, deter said idiotic buyers.
Australia in actual fact has very few "puppy farms" most found in South Australia.
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