>>I find it quite amusing that people assume that someone willing to spend thousands of dollars on "rare" monitor lizards to form a breeding colony wouldn't have the funds to house them properly, or the experience to care for them.



I've seen it happen. People will spend $800 on an animal and then keep it in a glass tank. On newspaper. With just a heat pad. Again, we have no idea who you are, we just have our experiences to go on. I know my experience has been that when people know as little about monitors as you initially seemed to, they will spend a ridiculous amount of money on the animal and then expect to spend zip on the cage.



>>All I'm trying to say is that it looks like a lot of people on this forum look to immediately jump down peoples throats as if anyone who posts a question is some unqualified, uneducated person who saw a youtube video of a monitor lizard and made an impulse decision to purchase one. Sure, there are a lot of people like that out there, but by specifically stating that I wanted to hear some opinions and using the terminology "dawgs" does not make me one of them.



The second time you posted the question I took you much, much more seriously than the first time. I've never experienced any throat jumping, and there's been instances where it would have been easy for someone to do so. I've generally found the folks here to be helpful and consistent in the information they provide.



Quite simply, take a step back and relax. I LOL'd your original post because I thought someone was making a joke. When your phrasing makes multiple people think you're joking, maybe it's not that we're all trying to jump down your throat...maybe your original question was just phrased poorly. You got ten kinds of upset at me for three sentences simply stating that if you've got the resources to house rare monitors, you should also have the resources to figure out which ones are rare. Try going back through the posts and rereading them. Would you want someone saying the things to you and your family that you've been saying to us?



When multiple people tell me I'm sounding like a petulant teenager and that I'm being a jerk, it usually makes me wonder if maybe I'm sounding like a petulant teenager and being a jerk.



~jen
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"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."

- Anna Sewell (1820-1878)

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