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serpentinedreams
at Thu Aug 21 14:39:18 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by serpentinedreams ]
I just would like to tell a little story that I find appropriate seeing how my question of avalibility turned into a conversation about neglect. It is true that burms do seem to be too big for most common people to deal with, regaurdless on this forum I wouldn't consider anyone a common person. We are here because of our love for these animals, in my oppion even with the extra unloved burmese pythons in the world most of the people on this forum do take great care of there animals. Anyway back to the story, two weeks ago I was contacted about a rouge alligator that was terrorizing a small community a few hrs away from me. Aparently the owner who kept him outside was neglectful in there pond design and the animal recked havok on the neighbors as they were sun bathing in there back yard. Animal control quickly caught the animal, and has been keeping untill sombody can legaly take it off there hands. I made the drive with a friend to see the gator, wich is not a real common sight in Washington state. It was a very sad event for a reptile lover to see but even worse for a common animal loving person. The building that was being used to house the gator was also the building that is used to euthanise dogs and cats and I was are unfortunet enough to be there only min after they put them down. What I saw was horrible, there were 20 small cages holding 100's of cats some dead some dying and all cramed in together on top of each other. I can still remember the faint crying of the animals. Now the Tri-Citys are not a huge metropolis but if they have the need to euthanise 1000's of unwanted cats alone yearly, I can only imagine what a large city would. The gator was being kept poorly also only because they have no clue how to handle a animal like that. Feeding it chicken parts, but not giving it any heat source, it was being kept in a dog kennel, wih a half dog house full of water to swim in.... Where Im getting at is this city wich has had rougly 5-6 pythons in the last 10 years and one gator still puts down 1000's of cats and dogs yearly. All of the reptiles that came in have been wanted, and adopted save this poor aligator I am still working on with hopes to send him southward where he can have a more normal life to look forward too. So try not to be too hard on the breeders or the good owners, and be thankful that burms are not cats.... But if anybody out there could help me I would still love to have a normal Lab???
-Thanks Shaun D
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- //heres my lab??? - serpentinedreams, Wed Aug 20 17:19:27 2003
- my rant.... - Carmichael, Wed Aug 20 20:49:52 2003
 Whoa! Whats happening here??? - serpentinedreams, Thu Aug 21 14:39:18 2003
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