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at Wed Apr 30 15:29:16 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
Or your caresheet, Currently I think caresheets do not fit varanids. I get the feeling, its the people, not the sheet. The people need to be taught to think, not follow a sheet.
I think beginers should first be taught that most aspects of husbandry change as both we and the animals age(progress)change and grow(mentally and physically) I think they should be taught FIRST that they will be required to constantly make decisions on what the next step for their monitor will be.
If they learned those two things and a couple more, they would not get the false idea that a caresheet is all that meaningful and should be followed. They shouldn't be followed.
Again, paint by the numbers has not proven be all that successful with varanids(they do not like being average)
I think you would agree that decision making is the most important task you do with varanids. Is that not so? So why start out keepers as robots.
This caresheet thing has been around for a very long time and has not proven to be all that effective. Has it?????????
So maybe varanids are not for everyone, thats a good thing. They are the thinking persons reptile, not the sad old colubrid paint by the numbers and get some success type of person.
The reality is, there is not enough success across the board to even think about a caresheet. Once there are many hundreds of successful keepers, then maybe we could find something that would work. As of new, learning to think and not being afraid to make decisions, has proven to work the best. Cheers
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RE: Its nothing against you Robyn - FR, Wed Apr 30 15:29:16 2008