I'm not saying that's the biggest threat to the animals. It was more her tone of voice that displayed her ignorance. Almost in an "Isn't there only one type of iguana" sort of way.The vast, vast, VAST majority of iguanas in the pet trade are green, yes. Given the whole host of horrors perpetrated by chain pet stores (up to and including fatal animal cruelty and neglect)...I don't think some random pet store nobody not knowing about iguana colors even comes close.
Dishonest or not, you could have saved the frogs from a potentially harmful environmentSometimes their ignorance can work to your advantage. I got a good deal at a pet store last weekend. They just got a shipment of pixie frogs and pacmans. I told the employee I wanted to buy the two pixies but he didn't know the difference between the two and thought they were all the same frogs. I showed him which was which but he kept calling them all pacmans. So I got them for the price of a pacman (which was about half price). Maybe that was a bit dishonest of me
Oh well :}
That's horrible!Dude, gotta say I'm lovin the title...and thats a pretty bad story
I've got my own iguana nightmare from about a year ago when I worked at a nice little one of pet store, which soon after closed :
A lady walks in the store one day and asks if iguanas need water. I say of coarse and start to talk about there habitat in the wild and needs in captivity. She was quite taken back at this, for she had boughten an iguana for her son at a local PetWorld. (I've long nick named this store as "the company of death" for it is known to sell half dead animals and give out terrible cold-blooded advice.) The lady continued to say that the person their told her that "iguanas don't need any water of any kind because they absorb all their moisture through their food." Her iguana then dies obviosly because of dehidration for it hadn't had any water for 3 weeks. She had no idea why this happenend cause she thought she was doing everything right. I then steered her in the directoion of Melissa Kaplan's Herp Care Website (http://www.anapsid.org/) for this could answer any questions i coulden't.
I then called PetWorld and asked simple inocent questions about iguanas, the guy thought that "they're from Australia er no wait uh... maybe middle america?" and that "they need no water what so ever."
Can you believe this?!! ~ Rex
Hey Jeff, The funny thing was the spider was labeled "chinese huntsman" when I asked if they had any other info regarding where it came from , they told me "Asia",On the other hand, that ignorance may result in something like this
http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/show...light=huntsman
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