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DavidKendrick
at Sun Feb 15 09:58:01 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DavidKendrick ]
"Once again, I honestly don't mean to degrade you or your experience. Not at all. Hopefully, after you have kept more than a single Burmese python (or other large snake) you will learn that not every snake of a certain species has the same personality and that proper conditioning & husbandry can do wonders. None of the snakes that I've raised from early age have strong feeding responses to where they fly to the cage opening expecting food. Quite the opposite with mine. When the cage is opened they gingerly crawl to me and can be handled with ease.
Once again, you think you know me....lol, The 1 Burmese Python I currently keep is by choice, it doesn't mean I havn't had prior or past expereince with Anacondas, Retics, Burmese, Scrubs, ect..ect...I just at this moment in time only have (by choice) 1 Burmese Python.
I do not see anything wrong with trying to push for standards in my hobby, I am tired or seeing MY hobby do down the drain becuase of people who shouldn't be in it, and guess what, I am trying to take back MY hobby, before the government takes it from me, so if that means "Turning" on people who I think are threating my hobby so be it. I will push for my fellow keepers and breeders to be the most responsible breeders and keepers they can be, and for those people to push for it too.
The fact of the matter is, our Hobby is being threated more and more every year, It only makes sense to me as a Burmese Python owner to push for those breeding and selling them to be maybe overly cautious during this time, do we really need videos showing hundreds of Retics hatching? publically showing the mass production of them? I would like to see breeders and sellers be more supportive of fellow keepers who have questions, But what I see more of is pictures of the newest morphs hatching out. Those posts get two to three times the replies of someone asking a husbandry question...There seems to be lots of hype with not much support. This is a species that is on the hot plate, don't youi think its a good idea to show more support for these species rather than pushing publicity and hype?
I see nothing wrong with pushing people to do whats is right (in my eyes..lol)...This whole hobby is under attack becuase of Retics, Burmese, ect...I just would like to see those keeping and breeding them be a little more vocal instead of expecting the rest of the hobby to defend them or expect thier support.
This is seriously the last comment on the subject I have, People are ignorant, and will do what they want to do...no matter what the cost...and when/if our hobby is shut down...I will know who to blame...
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Correction.... - DavidKendrick, Sun Feb 15 09:58:01 2009