I agree with your concern for wild monitors and farmed monitors awaiting shipment. I'm not sure what the answer is.

An analogy to me is, Imagine if instead of domestic dogs and cats we were taking wolves and panthers from the wild for everyday pets. This would never happen.

Why is it different with Monitors? I believe the wild population has to suffer from collection for the pet trade. Monitors, snakes or tropical fish, I believe this is detrimental to their longterm survival.

Should their be laws that if its not captive bred you can't own it? We do that in the U.S. with most of our wild life.

I'm concerned with any suggestion that wild caught animals should be more profitable than they currently are. People may stop farming and start collecting Monitors if they could triple their income.

Maybe only certain proven breeders should be able to posses wild caught animals for the purpose of developing CB animals for the pet trade. The rest of us could wait for these CB animals.

And these breeders or farmers could have standards for keeping the animals that would reduce suffering and death.

We shut down puppy mills in the U.S, for not meeting standards. Why not monitors?

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• $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - jobi, Wed Apr 25 13:04:35 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - tpalopoli, Wed Apr 25 13:39:00 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - jobi, Wed Apr 25 13:52:49 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - tpalopoli, Wed Apr 25 14:21:59 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - jobi, Wed Apr 25 14:57:22 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - RFB, Wed Apr 25 15:15:27 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - jobi, Wed Apr 25 15:21:01 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - tpalopoli, Wed Apr 25 19:42:05 2007
• 400,000??? yeah right! - MiamiExotics, Thu Apr 26 20:52:40 2007
• RE: 400,000??? yeah right! - jobi, Thu Apr 26 21:36:34 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - RFB, Wed Apr 25 15:06:15 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - jobi, Wed Apr 25 15:30:31 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - lizardheadmike, Wed Apr 25 16:02:32 2007
• If they don't sell them in the US... - daniel1983, Wed Apr 25 16:17:45 2007
• RE: If they don't sell them in the US... - jobi, Wed Apr 25 16:47:33 2007
• Cost won't change thing either... - daniel1983, Wed Apr 25 17:02:32 2007
• RE: Cost won't change thing either... - jobi, Wed Apr 25 17:07:30 2007
• Sure it would..... - rsg, Thu Apr 26 10:54:55 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - MiamiExotics, Thu Apr 26 20:58:37 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - jobi, Thu Apr 26 21:40:50 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - MiamiExotics, Sat Apr 28 19:21:50 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - jobi, Sat Apr 28 20:22:26 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - MiamiExotics, Sat Apr 28 23:52:33 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - MiamiExotics, Sat Apr 28 23:56:22 2007
• RE: Look in the classifieds for savannah - jobi, Thu Apr 26 14:54:02 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - nerkhunts, Fri Apr 27 19:28:25 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - tpalopoli, Fri Apr 27 20:42:03 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - MiamiExotics, Sun Apr 29 00:04:13 2007