Ya, I hear ya but that is exactly my point. No matter what you think you know about where an animal is coming from, it's still a risk. If they had other friends that had a boa collection, it is not unthinkable that they could have came over, handled the ball and transmitted IBD to it. An unlikely scenario but many people have lost entire collections costing tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars all because one snake came from a trusted location. It worries me when some other collector wants to see my reptile room. Non-collectors don't really worry me because they won't be carrying anything that could be transmitted to my collection but I don't let too many of them in either.

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• Listen to this garbage - XtremeXteriors, Sat Jan 27 14:30:53 2007
• Well...... - LadyOhh, Sat Jan 27 14:48:17 2007
• RE: Well...... - Coldthumb, Sat Jan 27 15:43:33 2007
• RE: Listen to this garbage - the_jackel, Sat Jan 27 16:01:26 2007
• RE: Listen to this garbage - ballzy, Sat Jan 27 16:50:18 2007
• They were animals I personally produced - XtremeXteriors, Sat Jan 27 16:55:52 2007
• RE: They were animals I personally produced - ballzy, Sat Jan 27 17:22:56 2007
• OH and they DID change the substrate 1st - XtremeXteriors, Sat Jan 27 16:58:22 2007
• PAM ........LOL - jyohe, Sun Jan 28 16:41:03 2007
• Provent-A-Mite all the way!!!!!!! - karlbuckler, Sat Jan 27 20:06:40 2007
• Yep P.A.M. works...... - methistina, Sun Jan 28 01:40:13 2007
• Keep the snake.....lol...n/p - spenden, Sun Jan 28 13:01:03 2007