Hi
I am an old member of the forum who has not posted in years as my dragons passed on and I have not been able to bring myself to get more after losing my loves.
Today we went to a new pet store that has opened up around the corner from me and I left with a question I need an answer too please. I have never had snakes at all, I know almost nothing about them but I'm sure they need more than they are getting at this shop.
This pet shop I went to today has cage upon cage of snakes, dragons, iguana's and spiders. When I asked him why he had no uv lights or heat lamps or heating mats in any of them he explained to me that none of the creatures need anything other than humidity and then went on to open that cage of a python near me to demonstrate the humidity (not sure if he was expecting me to suddenly start sweating or something) but the cage looked dry with no signs of moisture at all so I'm not sure what humidity he was on about. These animals are in a very dark shop in cages with no light and no heat and this fool was going on about how in our SA climate none of these animals need anything other than whatever they get from the thin air.
Now if he had said he was just starting up and had not yet had time to install lights or heat than fine but while I was there he was selling a cage and an animal to some women in there and she was hearing all this so he's not only doing the wrong thing himself he is selling animals to people and passing on his ignorance.
Like I said I know nothing about snakes but I know dragons needs and they were not met at all. I want to know if there'd is any truth in what he said at all please, and if there is not I would like to know if there is a 'name and shame' avenue open to me. How does one go about making this right? I'm not the crusading type but if I am right and this is wrong I want to do the right thing. If I am wrong no harm done.
Thank you.