I know that feeling of walking into a tiny, smelly pet store and you just instantly feel surrounded by death. There is a reptile store not to far from me that another member on this board had complained about so I decided to go check it out for myself.

She wasn't kidding! I'm not going to get into details, but lets just say every snake cage had at least 3 sheds in it, there were dead mice on the floor, dead lizards in a tiny disgusting caiman tank. I almost vomited. Needless to say, its those kind of people that ruin the fun for all of us.

On the up-side to all of this, there are also very many people (a whole bunch on this board) that own very professional, clean and simply gorgeous reptile stores. I just figured out that Reptile Basics is less than an hour away from me...I can't wait to go check it out!