"You're saying we haven't converted herps for "use" (only for lack of a better term) in our homes? They're obviously not the same as their wild counterparts. We've tamed them and learned how to take care of them. If that's not domestication, i don't know what is."



Ok, then you don't know what is-because that definitely is NOT domestication. True domestication takes scores to hundreds of generations of selective breeding. We've been breeding reptiles with regularity for less than 4 decades- 10 or so generations at most (with periodic infusions of wild blood along the way).



Herps are the functional equivalents of tropical fish-beautiful to look at, fascinating to observe in form and behaviour-but totally unable to return our affection or respond to our caresses. They are living, breathing creatures, and we appreciate them as such, but they are rarely "pets".
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Brad Chambers

WWW.HCU-TX.ORG



The Avalanche has already started-it is too late for the pebbles to vote....

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