"If we paid them to advocate and lobby for us, like agriculture and restaurants do, I believe they would be happy to lobby in our favor."

That would be the thing to do then. Why aren't we? We are certainly right smack dab in the crosshairs of the HSUS and other such organizations right now.

"In my opinion, the Gov. Strickland/HSUS deal combined with the showing of this movie in Ohio should be an opportunity for grass roots herpers to voice our side and call attention to our defamation by the animal rights movement (HSUS, PETA, Animal Planet, The Nature Conservancy, Defenders of Wildlife, etc.), but we have to act quickly or we'll loose out."

Indeed. It is a GREAT idea. We should all be acting on it if we are close enough to.

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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