You make many valid points and much of what you are saying is common knowledge and true.

People keep giving their money to the people you are talking about. People keep kissing ass hoping they will get better treatment based on what they spend but unless you are very wealthy you will never be the big spender and will get promises that never come to be. And as soon as you start producing and selling the animals you bought you are now seen as competition and an enemy to those you spent your money with.

Nobody ever wants to name names. The same people get away with the bad things they do over and over again because nobody wants to load up and go to war. So many people in this business are so infamous for things they have done and yet they are still allowed to sell on sites on the net and at shows. If this industry had any respect for itself at all people who have been stealing and cheating customers for 30 years would be banned from everything not welcomed in.

Those who sell animals that are not what they are supposed to be or sell animals they know are sick are still at the shows and selling on the websites. Why? Why is this business so bad at policing itself? Well you can attribute all the legal actions against us to the same problems. We do not police ourselves and we do not have any unity in our group.

I have personally fought laws against reptiles in several cities and states for years. I had to fight the city I lived in going after me for the same kind of narc situation you spoke of. What I learned then was that my "good friends" in the business that were local that I had known for many years would not do one thing, not lift one finger to help me out in or out of court but wanted me "to let them know how it goes". I was on my own. And I fought. And I won. But after many fights I am tired and not willing to do it alone any longer and that is the rub. Where is the organisation and the willingness in this business to stand up to these laws? Where are the dozen or so people who make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from these snakes and what are they doing to defend the industry right now?

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