Thanks for the advice. I'm really thinking about asking him again (maybe in writing, so he has to hear my case and can't cut me off in the middle like before) because this is tearing me up.
I don't know how I'm going to manage next year. Plus my Beardie has been being finicky with her food, I've been having to hand feed her veggies with babyfood on them or she won't eat them, and I know my family won't be willing to shell out the time to do the same, I know she'll be fine but I worry.
Also, I did some searching for any sort of rescue and I did find that they we have a Have a Heart Save a Life type thing... but the petshop I knew of apparently closed and there's not another one around the town. Totally bummed.
Especially since last weekend I went back to my hometown and spent like literally 2.5 hours in the reptile store there talking to the people who worked there and holding all of their stuff... don't know how I'm going to do it next year. At all.