So I moved to a new town about 4 years ago, and we just bought a house in this town about 2 years ago. It’s a pretty nice little town in California. We have One pet store and it’s not actually a pet store it’s a feed store. They never have animals except for chicks during spring and summer... Anyway they have always been very nice and understanding people but when I went into the store today I saw something I wish I hadn’t. They had baby sulcata tortoises. Now for some that may not be a big deal but for me this experience was a HUGE trigger. Probably because of my tortoise Frank... I heard a man saying to someone looking at them that he already bought one, and it’s at home. This same man said he was told they don’t grow fast. The shop owner was telling people that they need a dry environment but should be misted once a day.. they where on coco core chips or wood and sand. They had a heat ROCK and the temperature gage said it was only about 80 degrees in there... there was 5 of them on top of the tiny heat rock under a heat lamp and it made me feel like even under the heat lamp it was too cold.. the water dish (if you can call it that) was the size and shape of two quarters next to each other. They had the store bought colored food pellets. I sat there with my 5 year old son and watched as the shop owner told people completely false information. I said something to a customer about how fast frank grew and how much care these guys need and the guy who already bought one started asking a bunch of questions. I tried to answer them but I finally got stressed and kinda fed up when the shop owner tried to convince everyone I wasn’t informed. The poor things where probably only 2-5 months old and already showing signs of dehydration. These are the tortoises that end up like frank, deformed, or dead. And it’s still bothering me the next day. I don’t think I can really do much but I really needed to vent.