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Carmichael
at Mon Oct 26 17:18:33 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Carmichael ]
I'll third that. I decided that rather than being a breeder, I knew early on I wanted to focus on conservation education, exhibition and field research - now I have the Wildlife Discovery Center which is all three wrapped into one. I still breed but as Archie said, strictly for the joy of it. I see so many breeders who have forgotten that the animals residing most of their lives in deli cups are living, breathing creatures. To many, they just attach dollar signs to the animals and forget about how much fun it is to focus on creating the ultimate habitat....I just saw a family in our community who built a 10 foot x 4' foot x 8 foot (w x d x h) for their...don't laugh...corn snake!! You wanna talk about the nicest looking corn snake I've ever seen? This thing was huge and was cruising around at all levels. Pretty inspirational. When I told this family about "racks" they shook their head and said, "how do you keep them from crawling to the floor" - we should all look outside of the "rack box" every now and then. Sorry, I think I got off topic from the post!
>>I second what Archie said.
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>>Tim Cole
>>www.austinherpsociety.org
>>www.AustinReptileExpo.com/
>>www.AustinReptileService.net
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>>Conservation through Education
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Rob Carmichael, Curator
The Wildlife Discovery Center at Elawa Farm
Lake Forest, IL
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- Curious - texasviper619, Fri Oct 23 16:13:56 2009
- RE: Curious - lep1pic1, Sat Oct 24 00:45:46 2009
- RE: Curious - TimCole, Sun Oct 25 19:57:39 2009
 RE: Curious - Carmichael, Mon Oct 26 17:18:33 2009
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