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joshhutto
at Sun Feb 12 14:04:45 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by joshhutto ]
$500 per snake in fees, that's rediculous. If that were to happen the price for any large species of snake would be next to nothing. The same thing that happened to the siberian lynx would happen to burms and retics, those that are breeding them for a living can no longer afford to feed and house the breeding stock and in a single move they would all or most be killed or released. When the fur trade bottomed out, in one week over 2k siberian lynx's were killed and they instantly became very endangered. Those breeders that couldn't bring themselves to kill the animals they love would just release them into an ecosystem that has proven that it can sustaine these animals. How would that benefit anybody. If we as destructive humans wouldn't have developed and killed off the everglades, there would be bears and florida panthers there that could easily prevent any brooding mothers from hatching enough eggs to sustaine a population. Don't get me wrong, some regulation would be nice. A non-venomous permit that costs something like $50 for the first year and then $25 every year after to keep 1-10 animals anything more than 10 animals should require a breeders liscence that should be $100 per year. With these liscenses, there would be a basic husbandry test/questionaire and if failed no snake for you. Remember this is a hobby to 90% of the peope that keep snakes, make it that expensive, and nobody enters it.
Josh Hutto
JKReptiles
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2.3 het pied (RDR, alan bosch x 2, BHB x 2)
0.1 High Contrast Albino (Gulf Coast)
1.1 het albino (ben siegel, Gulf Coast)
1.2 het citrus ghost(Gulf Coast line)
1.0 citrus ghost (Gulf Coast line)
0.1 graz pastel female
1.6 05 normal bp's
0.6 04 normal bp's
2.5 adult normal bp's (some need breeding to see if norm)
4 various corns
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa (alan bosch)
1.0 american pit bull terrior
1.1 taco dogs (ankle biters)
1.0 grey cat
1.1 bearded dragons
a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrior as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!
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