Joan, you can't expect to insult someone and to not recieve a rude response in return. I make no excuses and regret nothing. You insulted me and I feel that you owe me an apology. You have also misconstrued all of the facts here in this thread. I never suggested that anyone do that. I simply pointed out that I would never presume to tell someone with great experience that they couldn't or shouldn't feed outside of the cage. Then I simply stated that I knew I could safely feed anywhere any time because I know these snakes so well. I still stand by this. I can read them and their body language. And quite frankly, if you have been keeping them for 20 years and haven't learned enough about them to be able to do the same then I must think that you fall into that sad catagory of keepers that may have been in the hobby for a long time, but have learned little. No offnese on this one, but this is the impression I get from what you say.



As far as my name goes,. lol,. everyone here and elsewhere already knows that my name is Damon. Big whoop-teedoo. I explained it all a couple of months ago, it was accepted and everyone has moved on. You are on yesterday's news page hon. I just keep the screen name because it is recognizable. Get over this. It isn't a big deal. It never was.



I don't think any of this is really the issue with you. Simply put, I think you have a personal agenda with me and you nit pick things whenever you THINK you see an oportunity or fracture in the credibility of my posts. Well dear, it is transparent. And blatently obvious.



I think it is also apparent that you came off to me very rudely first and insulted me on groundless allusions that are false. The way you misconstrue this thread is as if I had suggested that people should feed outside the cage. Nothing could be further from the truth. And it is totally absurd that you try to make it look this way.



I think it is generaly known that I am very nice to people and am very friendly in my posts. I was even friendly to you recently even though you have attempted this "character assassination" with me in the past. More than once, I might add.



Look,.. whatever it is that you don't like about me,. just get over it and move on. But I'd still like to get an apology from you for calling my advice lousy. It was not and you are in the wrong here.





>>No need for name calling, dear. I asked you to illustrate your technique with a photo. If your answer was “No,” then that’s enough and that’s okay.

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>>I rarely post here. But, in the past, I’ve noticed that anyone who questioned something you advocate was usually met immediately with a “Who do you think you are?” type of response filled with silly name calling. It had seemed to me recently that you might be trying to work on this by using a calm and reasoned approach to state your case. But I guess that’s sometimes difficult.

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>>“Brian,” perhaps the time will come when you don’t have to post anonymously under a made-up name. I’m sure it is not lost on anyone here that I post under my real name.

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>>To keep this discussion on track, my largest reticulated python exceeded 100 pounds; my largest Burmese python exceeded 200 pounds (both were exhibited at a regional herpetological society’s educational shows, and were seen and touched by thousands of people). But even after raising them up for 20 years, I wouldn’t have been caught dead feeding them outside of their cages. Uh, I mean, I just might have been found dead had I done so! It wasn’t an “experience” thing; it was a “best husbandry practices” thing.

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>>On reflection, in my initial post I think I could have chosen a better term than “lousy husbandry” to describe feeding giant snakes outside of their cages. How about “ an ill-advised husbandry practice”?

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>>-Joan
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