After searching all of Melissa's web site and articles I have yet to find one place on the internet or in any literature that

Melissa Kaplan has written where she advocated a total or partial ban on reptiles or exotic pets.



All I can find are comments made by others attributed to Melissa

Kaplan, but never in my 7 years of knowing Melissa have I ever heard or seen her advocate such a ban, support such a ban, or recommend such a ban. Just because someone said she said something or she is "quoted" by others does not make it a fact.



Melissa is a volunteer at this site. This business survives because of the trade in reptiles and exotic animals. If Melissa was the animal rights activist others claim then how can her

volunteering here be explained?



Melissas comments, as were many others quoted in the article, were in fact taken out of context, and were used specifically to meet the reporters agenda. Had any of you been

there to be quoted in the same article, you too would have

been cast as either an animal rights activist or a slack jawed

yokel reptile owner.



I don't expect to change your mind, nor do I care too, I know the truth, and I know that people will continue to believe what they want, but I will point out that making libelous or slanderous comments about others on this web site is a violation of our terms of service, as are personal attacks, and neither will be tolerated.

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