Ernie, while you may be "perfect" we don't live in a "perfect" world and the entire Industry isn't perfect including me. My safety record is second to none. In terms of venomous bites I've only had 3 occur after selling several hundred thousand in the course of the last 40 years. Two bit me, both times thru bags, and one employee was bitten by a Stilleto Snake. The idea of us selfregulating officially on paper is to prevent someone from regulating us. Very few incidents occur in the first place but the few that do generate massive negative publicity. I DON'T THINK THE INDUSTRY AT LARGE NEEDS REGULATION AS I THINK MOST OF US DO A GOOD JOB. It's the perception of the public at large that matters. If we can say, yes, here are our regulations and that person doesn't have a permit for retics or whatever species might require one negates attacks on the Industry at large. If you could say if an incident occured that out of more than 50,000 people this is the first incident we've had in two years that kind of positive info would benefit all us imperfect people. For you of course maybe we could get a "perfection permit" where you would be an exception to the rule....lol...JUST MY BRUTALLY HONEST OPINION
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Tom Crutchfield

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