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I hate making posts like this, and usually when I go in pet stores and I see a dehydrated ball python or a beardie with a little early mbd I just bite my tongue but this one was too much. Uromastyx that by all accounts does not look alive. There was another one in there that was definitely underweight but at least was alert, huffed up at me, wiggled its tail as a threat.. this one though… This lizard did not get like this overnight, and the fact that it’s THIS bad and still on the floor where they’re asking $180(!!) for it is pathetic.

This is the Everything Pets in Schenectady. It should be pulled immediately and taken to a vet for treatment but instead it’s going to die or someone is going to “rescue it” by buying it which will just incentivize them to buy another. Like I said, I see reptiles of varying levels of health in pet stores but practically never THIS BAD, pi**es me off.

Update: I’ve been informed by the staff’s own comment that the lizard arrived in sick on 8/5 and they pulled it just now after seeing this post. Interesting, they can reply to this post within a few minutes but their lizard for sale can slowly die in a tank for over a week with no one doing a thing despite them knowing it was sick 🤔

DO NOT HARASS PET STORE EMPLOYEES OR VENDORS FOR THEIR EXPO- didn’t think I needed to tell some of y’all how to behave

We’ve still got some public programs this month you can catch us at!
8/13 East Greenbush library for a 1-4 year old show at 10:30 AM
8/13 Chestertown library at 3 Pm for an all ages show
8/15 Cohoes library at 1 for an all ages show
8/22 Niskayuna town farmer’s market from 9-12 with a table display

Butters is my first ball python of the four we take to programs, and as is usually typical with their species, is quite chill. He also has a big ole 💛 on his body so it’s hard to resist his cuteness! Butters here has put in more work for getting people over their fear of snakes/reptiles than probably any other singular reptile we have. Have you met Butters at one of our shows before?

HOT TAKE(apparently) but we will NOT be attending any event/expo/whatever that uses AI in their promotion posters/banners/etc. Just as there are wildlife educators doing important work to teach people about animals, animal/wildlife artists also do very important work showcasing and making unique ways for the public to see these creatures as well.

Not even counting all of the environmental damage AI is doing to the world, if an event or organizer is too cheap/lazy to hire an artist, use free artwork online, or even take images from our page (which anyone that books us is welcome to do) than I don’t want a part of it. Ai art is ugly, and all of these reptile expo posters I see using it all look so repetitive and soulless. I’ve seen middle school art projects that look better 😂

I don’t care if we lose out on money, in today’s society we can do better and something as simple as just not using awful looking ai art is the easiest first step.

Original art is by Donovan Winterberg

UPDATE: he was an escaped pet that broke out through the screen and is on his way back to his original home!

Last week we got a call from DEC about a tegu found wandering some Amish farmland that was definitely not supposed to be there! We met up with the Encon officer and now he’s making his home with us! This could be an escaped pet or an abandoned pet I’m not sure yet. He’s in pretty good shape and very chill but these lizards are strong and quite capable when it comes to stubbornly breaking out of things

The loose Burmese python might have been fake but just picked up a REAL large reptile from DEC officers that was found wandering around Montgomery county 😂 any guesses?

Thanks to the thousands of folks we’ve seen at libraries this summer!! We still have a few more left for the summer reading season in the coming weeks

Library in the rain? Yes please! Adam (with the good hair) from Uncharted Wild wielding around his reptiles? Okay I guess, sure..

Great interactive presentation, we literally learned a lot about turtles, lizards, and even ssssnakes

Today is our ELEVEN year anniversary since Uncharted Wild first launched!! Honestly I’ve been so busy this month I nearly forgot it was today 😅

We’ve gotten a lot of new followers lately so I figured I would reintroduce myself. Hello everyone, my name is Adam and I started Uncharted Wild over a decade ago with the mission to bring fun and learning about exotic animals to audiences of all ages! We’ve done libraries, summer camps, birthdays, senior homes, fairs, bachelorette parties, bar-mitzvahs, you name it! We have a huge variety of snakes, lizards, turtles, inverts, mammals, amphibians, and two birds that we’ve been using for eleven years now to teach people about animals they don’t often see, and sometimes are afraid of.

Eleven years of doing this is wild (heh), and despite being neck deep in a super, super busy summer I still love what I do and am very fortunate enough to get to do what I love for a career. Thank you so much to everyone that has supported us either by hiring us for your event, sharing posts, even just following the page! We’re so close to 3k followers so I’d be very grateful if you’d perhaps invite your friends to like the page or share what we do with your local library or childrens’ school if you want us to bring our one of a kind animal show to you!