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Well ive been debating on this a lot, last week i needed some fish food and other things for my aquarium. where i live there's a "fair" nearby where local breeders gather on sundays to sell fish, cats, dogs, birds and all other normal animales and their respective food accesories etc.. me and the gf decided to go there to get what i needed since we'd never been there before and really enjoy going to zoos seeing animals and thought it could be a nice visit.
ok, so we get there early everything looks nice all the animals seem fairlyhealthy and in good condition after i get what i needed and have a look around we decide to leave and as it turns out on the outside of the fair there are a bunch of people with wild/exotic animales for sale (obviously illegal and caught in the wild) this made me very sad seeing a guy with parrots, small eagles and owls in his hoodie, but what pissed me off was this guy selling tortoise and turtles out of a cardboard box the worst one was a geochelone chilensis which i would say was an adult that had lost its color due to its age (normal in tortoises i would assume) but the dude selling it had varnished it so that it would be shiny and more appealing i guess.. i wanted to buy it and try to save it somehow by removing the varnish which will eventually end up intoxicating it. it was only 20us$ but i didnt want to support this "behaviour" by doing so... what should i do im planning on going back and see if its still there... any opinions?
ok, so we get there early everything looks nice all the animals seem fairlyhealthy and in good condition after i get what i needed and have a look around we decide to leave and as it turns out on the outside of the fair there are a bunch of people with wild/exotic animales for sale (obviously illegal and caught in the wild) this made me very sad seeing a guy with parrots, small eagles and owls in his hoodie, but what pissed me off was this guy selling tortoise and turtles out of a cardboard box the worst one was a geochelone chilensis which i would say was an adult that had lost its color due to its age (normal in tortoises i would assume) but the dude selling it had varnished it so that it would be shiny and more appealing i guess.. i wanted to buy it and try to save it somehow by removing the varnish which will eventually end up intoxicating it. it was only 20us$ but i didnt want to support this "behaviour" by doing so... what should i do im planning on going back and see if its still there... any opinions?