elmo
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im just venting about irresponsible owners!!! i have one in particular im going to talk about now... hes a friend/ part time co- worker. his main job keeps him super busy, which is y i dont understand why he has ANY pets at all...especially tegus. hes had 3, two babies (blk and white) and 1 almost full grown red adult female. as of yesterday he only has the adult left.
so the story begins with him having too many animals in his apt, his land lord found out and made him move them ALL out thus his reptiles came to live at work (petstore). he must have been thinking that sense his pets where at work that we would care for them along with our normal daily duties...wrong! after a few months i noticed that he wasnt coming around as much, i started to check on his reptiles... and secretly fed them. a few more months past and i noticed that his 2 baby tegus (at this time i didnt kno diddly squat about tegus) havent grown at all! they were so skinny! at this point they were about 6 months old. so me and another co worked decided to start getting very hands on... unfortunately it was too late and we lost one baby shortly after. we started to get on the owners ass but he did nothing so my co-worker just took the last baby home to save it. boy he was doing good! eatting and getting better.... weeks pass.... the owner wanted his baby back so my co-worker brought it back. we found it dead yesterday in the carry case that he brought it in.... the owner set it on the floor behind our display case and left it.
so today i checked on the adult. she was soooo cold. her small ass cage is on the floor, her heat bulb wasnt even hot enough to hurt when i touched it. i found out she has been eating just rats...and that no one can remember the last time he fed her. looks like she has a shed stuck on her and now shes super mean (used to b puppy dog tame) idk what to do about the adult, ive talking to the owner and he blows me off like always. i cant take her, the pet store owner wont sell her (i kno i kno but i would do it without telling him!!), the pet store owner also wont give her a proper set up cuz he has too much stuff already. its been a year! how much longer can she live like that!?
i got my tegu, elmo, while all this was goin on. at 4 months old she was twice the size of the 7 month old blk and whites he had. they were a year old when they died... they looked like 3 month old babies still!! they never ate anything but crickets, never had a light, and was kept at room temp! it just bothers me so much! i love my elmo wit all my heart, she a family member now and always will be. i couldnt imagine forgetting about her and letting her die people make me sick!.... i dont kno if i should really call his guy a "friend"
thanks, sorry i kno this is long...im done lol
so the story begins with him having too many animals in his apt, his land lord found out and made him move them ALL out thus his reptiles came to live at work (petstore). he must have been thinking that sense his pets where at work that we would care for them along with our normal daily duties...wrong! after a few months i noticed that he wasnt coming around as much, i started to check on his reptiles... and secretly fed them. a few more months past and i noticed that his 2 baby tegus (at this time i didnt kno diddly squat about tegus) havent grown at all! they were so skinny! at this point they were about 6 months old. so me and another co worked decided to start getting very hands on... unfortunately it was too late and we lost one baby shortly after. we started to get on the owners ass but he did nothing so my co-worker just took the last baby home to save it. boy he was doing good! eatting and getting better.... weeks pass.... the owner wanted his baby back so my co-worker brought it back. we found it dead yesterday in the carry case that he brought it in.... the owner set it on the floor behind our display case and left it.
so today i checked on the adult. she was soooo cold. her small ass cage is on the floor, her heat bulb wasnt even hot enough to hurt when i touched it. i found out she has been eating just rats...and that no one can remember the last time he fed her. looks like she has a shed stuck on her and now shes super mean (used to b puppy dog tame) idk what to do about the adult, ive talking to the owner and he blows me off like always. i cant take her, the pet store owner wont sell her (i kno i kno but i would do it without telling him!!), the pet store owner also wont give her a proper set up cuz he has too much stuff already. its been a year! how much longer can she live like that!?
i got my tegu, elmo, while all this was goin on. at 4 months old she was twice the size of the 7 month old blk and whites he had. they were a year old when they died... they looked like 3 month old babies still!! they never ate anything but crickets, never had a light, and was kept at room temp! it just bothers me so much! i love my elmo wit all my heart, she a family member now and always will be. i couldnt imagine forgetting about her and letting her die people make me sick!.... i dont kno if i should really call his guy a "friend"
thanks, sorry i kno this is long...im done lol
his savanna died, his rhino is on its last leg... like i said the store is trying to stay open... must less worried about this guys reptiles that are currently stored there for free... but this problem im trying to work on. the situation sucks!!
