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HappyHillbilly
at Fri Jul 4 15:28:12 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by HappyHillbilly ]
Not directed to anyone specific, but to everyone in general, please allow me to share a perspective that not everyone may be considering.
As a fellow keeper, which is most of ours viewpoint, I feel immense compassion for anyone that has a captive die within their care. This is my first response, thought, and I'm sure it's most of ours.
As a fellow keeper that mostly reads/posts on forums in an effort to combat the misinformation that is out there and to try to better the lives of the captives by sharing experience, proven techniques, thoughts, ideas, etc, as well as make it more joyful for the keeper, a different perspective sometimes comes into play. I not only share the pain of the loss with the keeper, I also look at the reason, or possible reason, and have to address it. I don't like pointing out faults, but sometimes I feel it's necessary.
One more perspective: Consider this - You raise a snake from a hatchling and sell it a few years later. You inquire of the person's abilities & experience and you're told they've been keeping snakes for 18 yrs and have done a lot of research on them. You sell them one of your favorite snakes that's dear to your heart only to find out a few months later that it's dead and you also learn of the way it was kept, which was far from industry standards.
As a breeder that cares about the future care/health of any/all of my snakes I have posted. Yeah, I may have been a bit too hard for some people and the original poster may never like me or be my friend. But I'll tell you one thing, I'm confident that any/all of their future captives will be better taken care of. -Mission Accomplished-
I tried hard to be nice & not to be too hard, I said so within my original post. I said "this is not going to be an easy post for me". It wasn't. It does bother me that I have offended some. The bottom line, though, is that this forum isn't really about humans, it's a snake forum.
I think all of my posts combined attest to the type of person I am. If I goofed on this one, I am sorry. It could be quite befitting since we're talking about being hard on people making mistakes.
Happy Birthday, America!!!
Happy Fourth of July!
HH
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Due to political correctness run amuck,
this ol' hillbilly is now referred to as an:
Appalachian American
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RE: but the husbandry also leans toward - HappyHillbilly, Fri Jul 4 15:28:12 2008