NERD wasn't there last year either, and Ralph had said he wasn't coming back last year. I think Pete Kahl and the Sutherlands will be there tho (don't quote me on that).

I wrote about this last year...

I know that the cost is too great and the income of the show too small for some of the larger breeders to go to Daytona. However, I didn't think so many would back out tho due to all the proposed laws... you would think at times like this its the most important time to ban together for the famous Daytona and give a really impressive convention -- to show off how our hobby brings people together peacefully, and that our reptiles aren't so scary, and most of all, what we contribute to the economy. To have that positive media on our side... Its kind of disappointing really that some of them aren't showing, just for that fact.

I mean, yes: its definitely not worth the money for the big guys to go. I know this just as well as everyone else. The tables themselves are extremely expensive, plus the cost of shipping your reptiles (air or gas), plus the hotel... It's not as much of a vacation for them as it is for us, the consumers.

I just thought everyone would think to REALLY be down for going.... To make a stand... A presentation... in the face of adversity and laws passing against our community. I just feel as though Daytona would have been more important, for the principle, not for cash.
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• Chelsea Lynn Gardiner
(and Frank M. Wood)

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