The Barkers highlight this concept of snake years on their webpage. I think that it is a relatively good system for accounting of basic experience and this is my reason as why. Someone can keep one solitary animal and give it all the attention that they can and spend all there free time with that animal. That same person can have absolutly no true concept of good husbandry and chances are that one solitary animal might live a long life. Now if this same practice of improper husbandry skills was applied to a large colony of animals then undoubtedly deaths would result. Therefore, following these same principles the more snakes one owns they must learn better practices and apply them. What might work for one creature will not work for masses unless it is ideal.

I have often thought it would be wise to develope some form of tracking experience for hot keepers and as they progress through experience levels they can move up to more dangerous animals. Anyway, just my thoughts. Todd

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