I agree with you on the one group plan. Almost 30 years ago we fought the California Fish & Game all the way to the state supreme court. Out of all the people collecting here in California at the time there were only 4 of us who would stand up as commercial. I can still hear the ones who hid in the background whining when we finally lost in one of the most liberal courts ever to be seated in this state... Fish & Game soon made almost everything illegal. It was only then that they finally understood “we will either hang together or we will hang separately but we will hang if we don’t fight.” You need to set up one organization with tiered membership. If someone is paying the hobbyist rate and they are selling then you need to boycott them. I know it sounds harsh if the reptile community doesn’t start acting like grown-ups then the powers that be are going to keep treating us like kids and keep spanking our butts till no gets to keep anything.

Michael Luhrs

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