chain stores like petco and petsmart are damaging and helpful to the hobby. sure they can be helpful with their easily accessible supplies at cheap prices and their variety of items. But you gotta remember, their main goal is to make money.....of course this is every business' goal, but they would say or do anything to sell their animals. I have a friend who got a bearded dragon from petco, he noticed it didnt look very well, but he wasnt very sure (he was new to the hobby) so he asked the worker and the worker said that the animal was 100% no-doubt, perfectly healthy. The thing had some sorta disease (I forget which one :P) and died 2 days later. He came back for a new one and then noticed that three others in the cage were also dead,