It is being requested that people pledge to favor the herp community. If you look at the ball python advertisors on the top of this page and you will notice many aren't pledging.

Another point is that is was mentioned that you can't insure reptiles. Certainly if you are a tax paying record keeping business you can insure the assets of your business.As a pet store would.

When we spend more money on our snakes than we do our auto's common sense would say to figure a way to protect your investment.

A home security system would cost less than a pied and probably keep one( a pied)in the premise.

Another point, probably someone they know, who else would just steal a very valuable collection.

About the herp community coming together. A herper stole the animals. If you look at the shady dealings on the classifieds every day you see the broadest spectrum of the herp community.It isn't very pretty. So is what we want to do is have this on a national broadcast that animals we aren't calling a bussiness investment because they are uninsured were stolen by another herper looking to make a quick buck and a small percentage of people have donated money to apprehend the evil doer.It would seem to be just another black eye for the hobby.

The good news is that nobody watches FOX News with any value in reliability anyway, so that would only be a tabloid coverage of a controversial topic.Joe public might be concerned that these dangerous snakes could be loose in their community( you know how they are)

Anyway, my heart goes out to any family that is the victim to a crime.And it can be any of us. So I recommend we get some security systems and become legit with some small business insurance.

Also, any ideas why the large and medium breeders haven't pledged anything? Do they know something that the average keeper doesn't know? Probably so. I am interested in what that might be. Peace/out

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