I do not feel Frank is trying to bait anyone in this instance. He is actually being quite helpful. He is trying to get YOU to look at your issue and solve it. I actually tend to agree with what he is saying in this thread.

I have a couple of hundred hogs in my collection from 700 gram adults down to 6 gram hatchlings and I am not nor have I ever experienced the issues being talked about in this thread. At least not for any length of time. By offering options and broadening my husbandry, these "issues" sort themselves out in a day or three. There is no such thing as a "problem snake". What there is a huge abundance of is problematic husbandry and human error.

I can sit here and tell you step by step what I do. But honestly, what I do may not work for you particular snake. The thing that Frank does, and not many can see, is he makes YOU think for yourself instead of giving you a direct answer that may or may not work in your case. I know when I started keeping reptiles and in the start of me breeding them, there were no hand books, no good care sheets, and no web sites. In fact, there was no internet yet. We had to think for ourselves and incorporate trial and error. This is not a bad thing and it should still hold true today even with the information we have at our finger tips.

When reading Franks posts, you can actually get a lot out of them if you read between what you feel are insults. Trust me, I spent a long time not liking they way Frank presents his postings and even no liking him personally. However, I got past it. Once you get past having you ego bruised while reading what her writes, his posts and messages do begin to become clear. I had to learn to put my ego aside and get back to the roots of why I started keeping reptiles to begin with {just recently LOL) because as Frank said a thousand times, it is about the animals and properly supporting their needs and not about us or who is right or wrong.

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