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nydon
at Mon Jan 31 04:33:10 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by nydon ]
First of all, the only thing i was defending was the need to keep an open mind. As i stated in the beginning of my post, I do not know the people on this forum, for all i know FR could have been Fried Rutabager. I have been keeping and breeding reptiles for well over 20 years and in the old days it was much more difficult to learn about new husbandry techniques because there was no internet and forums such as this. But the upside is that when you sit around and have lunch with guys like Ron Tremper or Dave Barker and they discuss something new that they have found to work well for them, you can pretty much take that to the bank. Regardless, i have found over the years to listen to everything someone says then decide what you may or may not want to use. Even things that work for other people do not always work for me. Now had i known this persons reputation as well as who FR was, I may have understood a bit more about the sharpshooting (or in this case machinegunning) that was going on. It does not however mean that anything is gospel when dealing with monitors or any species for that matter and the husbandry methods would never have evolved if there were not pioneers willing to "experiment" and take a chance. Not only have I been doing this a long time and have been very successful at it, but I also travel around to see the habitat of many of the species I keep, first hand. BUT i will listen to anything anyone says regardless of wether they have been in the hobby for 1 year or 100 years. Sometimes a new and fresh face to the hobby can provide a new point of view better than an old crusty %%$ like me. It is very unfortunate that this guy has nothing better to do than to fabricate stories but if nothing else, it has been a learning experience for me. I now know who and what he is. Lesson learned.
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RE: Since he admitted to lieing, do you feel good for defending it?? - nydon, Mon Jan 31 04:33:10 2005