sexed, maintained, and sold MORE VENOMOUS HERPS of more species than probably anyone ever has in the 30 plus years of dealing in venomous. I had everything from seasnakes to Sand Vipers. In all those years involving many employees plus myself we had only 3 venomous bites. I had 2 of those but I was bitten thru the bags in freak accidents. I had one employee bitten by a Mole Viper during cage cleaning. He was bitten BECAUSE he violated company rules. We didn't have bites because we had guidelines. I know D. Weathers very well and he knows how to handle venomous. However he takes unnecesary risks constantly. I believe that the fewer times you are bitten means that you are very good at what you do. A great boxers record is NOT BASED ON HOW MANY TIMES HE GETS KNOCKED OUT BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE HE KNOCKED OUT!!!! Having 100 venomous snakes is not a lot. We usually had over 100 species involving 1,000's of animals IN STOCK ALL THE TIME!! In over 30 years we had 3 bites. As far as I am concerned that was 3 too many. Ask R. Berry how many venomous he saw and packed while employeed by me. Sorry Dave, I hope you get better quickly from the bite but you PLACE YOURSELF IN A POSITION TO BE BITTEN OFTEN Tom Crutchfield

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