I hate to sound skeptical of everyone, but lets face it I normally am, it is part of my job LOL, but I have serious issues with some of the Reptile rescue places that I have seen and some of the websites that I have visited.

I have been to several where that rescue facility could in no way be an improvement over where the animals were previously kept. Many times the facilities are mite infested reptile storage places where most of the animals are simply waiting to catch there final infection and surrender to the relief of death.

Over crowding in some, poor or lack of knowledge in others are just a few of the problems that I have seen in them. Further more, other seem to operate simply for the purpose of receiving free animals for which they turn around and resell for an “adoption fee”. There is little difference between some of them and some of the online dealers, except that the animals from the dealers are normally in better health.

The ones that do have “The Best Interest of the Animals in mind” almost always seem to advocate the banning of or at least added legislation and restrictions of keeping exotic animals. They seem to use the few bad herpers as the example of the entire hobby. I must agree with others who ask for you not to release the picture that you posted. I also would not hide it away either, but post it on your website, where you can explain the event as it actually happened.

Thanks for sharing the event with us.
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"

Hopkins Holesale Herps

Hopfam1@aol.com

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