Yeah.... I saw this post while recovering from surgery last week.
It's disgusting. Short and Simple.
There is absolutely no excuse for a reptile 'rescue' or breeder or general owner for that matter, to have taken animals in this situation and done what they did.
One or two animals in the case of extreme overcrowding? Maybe...
10? Eh... These are animals that deserved better and were pets, not 'feeders'.
Have I done something like this? Once... With a hamster at a pet store I worked at once. He was over a year and a half, no one would adopt him, he was getting old, sluggish and was always dealing with 70% baldness and constant itchiness due to alopecia and had terrible 'tude. My manager at the time and I both agreed that a CO2 gas was better than just letting him suffer away in small bin. So I 'adopted' him.
But this is someone looking for a quick buck with absolutely no care about the how, just some way to quickly feed their animals and make a few bucks at a show. These were animals deemed well enough to go to homes and be happy.
One of the ways they got caught?
The microchips on rabbits weren't getting updated with new info on ownership. So many animals with so many years they could have had.
It's sad overall and I hope this 'fertile turtle' gets the shunning that they need from the reptile community that knows them. They are making the whispers of your animals listed 'free to good home' means 'free snake food' true again. They're putting the worst kind of bullseye on the reptile community. And this is another cup not drop into the bucket that people keep adding to in regards to wanting reptile laws.
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