Sad story Danny.. That must have been pretty devastating for you. It's hard enough to find larger dwarf caimans it seems.. I have come to learn that almost any time you need to rely on another person to care for your animals, you may as well accept that there will be losses. I'm not sure of who the first guy you knew would be but the second is Karel Fortyn. I've met him a couple of times and he is good friends with friends of mine, although I don't know him extremely well personally. He has some cool crocodilians, especially for a Canadian as crocs are not a popular captive animal up here. He's got the pair of Orinocos, a black caiman, freshwater crocodile, the 3 biggest spectacled caiman I have ever seen, an adult gator, adult female dwarf croc, adult palepbrosus.. Those are among the hundreds of snakes and couple of dozen turtles hes got. He lives around 3 hours from me and his house/facility (I'm not sure which would be the more correct term lol!) is open to the public Fridays-Sundays. Other than Karel, I know only a small handful of people keeping crocodilians.. A good friend of mine has 5 dwarf crocodiles (4 hatchlings from September and one 30" animal), a 4 foot nile and 2 small alligators, a guy that owns Canada's only accredited reptile zoo and has an adult alligator and an adult American crocodile, as well as several smaller alligators used for out reach, and lastly, a friend of mine has a reptile zoo in Ottawa and has quite a number of crocs.. Many gators (including a pair of adults), 2 6 foot niles, palps, trigs, quite a few big fat old specs, a couple of small yacare caiman and 2 big female dwarf crocs. I'm sure the majority of people keeping larger or more rare animals don't make themselves as obvious as those who have baby caiman or alligators. Any pictures of your animals? I myself also have 2 30 inch alligators, a small palpebrosus and 3 small spectacled caiman.

Matt

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