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Danny Conner
at Fri May 21 11:19:51 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Danny Conner ]
I don't think you can be a remotely intelligent animal keeper without having had this debate rage in your head. I live on a bluff below me is a huge beautiful creek complete with fish,turtles,nutria, and even a few beaver. I can sit on my back deck visualizing my crocs swimming lazily up and down the creek.
Until winter when they would all freeze to death. But what if that creek were in Africa, S. America or Asia. Well then they would just have to worry about Nile monitors, jaguars, coati mundis etc...
The fact is less than 1% of the eggs a croc lays will ever reach adulthood. I tell myself I'm keeping that 99%. I tell myself a diverse unending diet, an environment free of predators, and the possibilty of mating can't be that bad of life.
I hope. I think that most people want the best for their animals and act accordingly.
You don't always know. My biggest A. Snap (Spartacus) I tell him when this is all over(traveling doing shows) I'll let you go in the deepest darkest swamp I can find. But I don't know if I will.
Because even though I would be no longer responsible for him I would worry that some hillbilly would find him and make turtle soup. I don't know if I could live with that worry. And I wonder that after a certain length of time would'nt he be better off staying in captivity. I don't know. D.C.
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Animals in Captivity - Danny Conner, Fri May 21 11:19:51 2010