I've been thorough this before with no results, but I'll try again. Can we please drop the "Pet" moniker? It is the silver bullet in the AR Crowd's gun. Crocks are pets only in the very loosest terms of the word. It is definitely a stretch. Same as "Pet Tarantula" and "Pet Rattlesnake". Has more of an ironically humorous connotation. Just an attention getter in my opinion.



Sure it has been fine for marketing and for sales over the years, but realistically we are just feeding our opponents ammunition for their big propaganda guns every time we us the term "Pets" to describe these animals.



As in, "These animals don't make good pets". Yes, but they do make interesting and mind expanding display animals. These are artificially maintained captive wild type animals, in most cases captive born for generations, and with many many different genetic aesthetically pleasing intentionally manipulated genetic traits, over the span of generations.



I prefer the term "Living Art" over "pets". I'm sure we can come up with something better than "Pets". "Pets" is killing us right now.



jsc
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