>>Here's what I get from your post - You can't have any fun unless everyone puts everything out on the forum?
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>>Oh I agree about the forum, it's screwed, but really it can't ever be what it was anyways, not in the current political climate.
>>It's a shame really, but no way it's all on the BS arguments that go on in here.
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>>There are 1000 different people that don't post here anymore and for 100's of different reasons.
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>>I know at least 100 folks that never have posted here, or over there for that matter.

You may have got that from my post but that wasn't the point I was really trying to make Joe.....

This forum is not fun anymore because folks that are breeding thayeri that are not hybrids get chastised on this forum and others because they cannot throw out names like Lemke, Applegate, Vermilya or Vivid......That is not fun for them......

Years ago I KNOW I had pure (as it can get in the hobby nowadays) thayeri and still couldn't trace down lineage and such......We had a great time on the forum posting pics and talking about husbandry techniques, but now it seems most of the talk is around "who's stock" is that snake....If one cannot drop a "big" name there are folks on this forum and others that think their snakes are mutts.......Not fun IMHO.....

All this lineage stuff came around during my hiatus....I really don't know what triggered it.....What happened to knowing what a thayeri is...Or at least knowing what a thayeri is in our hobby today.....

I have looked back at the last year of posting and even witness myself doing some of this chastising.....It kinda makes me sick and I will certainly try to refrain from doing it anymore.....

And you are correct Joe....
There are many breeders/keepers that never post on the forums and they are very happy and successful.
And the folks that have stopped posting on the forums have MANY different reasons....As for this forum I think the reason is the "prove it" factor......This is just my opinion.....

BTW...I am still happy with the hobby...Probably happier than I have ever been...At one time I was sort of jaded with the whole routine and the snakes I had, but I think this is all exciting again.....And I'm still happy......
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
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