If we don't work on getting some good PR for our community (the exotic owning community) we are going to end up going down.

I truly believe if this is how we are going to let ourselves be represented to the "general public", we should just roll over now, give up our animals, sell our equipment off, or just throw it away, and all start collecting stamps instead of what we do.

I think without being seen as a "legitimate" hobby, we are rather easy to paint with the broad brush as being a "dark and dangerous subculture".

I'd say from the amount of this stuff being pumped out, and how the public just eats it right up, we really don't have a chance. If we keep on letting this happen, with no rebuttal, we are only going to seem desperate and pathetic trying to counter it with pleas of salvaging our livelihoods later.

I sure wish I had money to devote to running adds, and making films...

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• The Elephant in the Living Room - webwheeler, Mon Oct 25 10:33:36 2010
• RE: The Elephant in the Living Room - Calparsoni, Mon Oct 25 12:02:16 2010
• Wow! What a coincidence - stuart, Mon Oct 25 12:08:22 2010
• RE: Wow! What a coincidence - webwheeler, Mon Oct 25 14:33:37 2010
• RE: The Elephant in the Living Room - jpenney, Mon Oct 25 17:27:01 2010
• Whatever anyone wants to say about cops - Ravenspirit, Mon Oct 25 21:53:53 2010
• RE: Whatever anyone wants to say about cops - jpenney, Tue Oct 26 17:22:24 2010
• We ARE NOT ACTING PRO-ACTIVELY... - ravenspirit, Mon Oct 25 14:07:53 2010
• RE: We ARE NOT ACTING PRO-ACTIVELY... - webwheeler, Mon Oct 25 14:33:01 2010
• That would be good... - ravenspirit, Mon Oct 25 14:45:14 2010
• RE: That would be good... - webwheeler, Mon Oct 25 15:11:47 2010
• And its a GREAT idea! - ravenspirit, Mon Oct 25 16:16:20 2010
• RE: That would be good... - seaaggie, Mon Oct 25 23:13:54 2010
• Ravenspirit you are exactly right!!! - Danny Conner, Tue Oct 26 10:11:35 2010
• Very good ideas D.C., More -> - Ravenspirit, Tue Oct 26 14:55:17 2010
• Just to be clear... - jason, Tue Oct 26 18:13:31 2010
• Watch this, we are a "Secret Society" - ravenspirit, Mon Oct 25 14:20:45 2010
• We are "not a legitimate industry"... - EricWI, Tue Oct 26 18:31:10 2010
• RE: We are "not a legitimate industry"... - TimCole, Tue Oct 26 18:45:54 2010
• RE: We are "not a legitimate industry"... - EricWI, Tue Oct 26 20:00:25 2010
• The fact that his brother owns... - Ravenspirit, Tue Oct 26 21:15:38 2010
• RE: The fact that his brother owns... - Jaykis, Fri Oct 29 20:17:40 2010
• BEYOND THAT - Ravenspirit, Tue Oct 26 22:19:12 2010
• RE: BEYOND THAT - seaaggie, Tue Oct 26 22:34:39 2010
• RE: BEYOND THAT - Calparsoni, Wed Oct 27 05:31:21 2010
• RE: The Elephant in the Living Room - kachunga, Mon Oct 25 23:33:17 2010
• RE: The Elephant in the Living Room - EricWI, Tue Oct 26 07:57:49 2010
• RE: The Elephant in the Living Room - jscrick, Wed Oct 27 04:21:44 2010
• OHPress: Exotic animals: pets/predators - W von Papineäu, Wed Nov 17 09:46:19 2010