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Dragoon
at Sun Jul 6 20:43:12 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Dragoon ]
I actually do that. I always read the last few pages of a book, before I get there. =)
Excuse my comments. It sounds as if I am trying to define their behaviors, when I was just thinking (or not) out loud.
You made an interesting observation, and it intrigued me before when you talked of them seeing their keepers as an event. Remember that thread? It just makes me wonder about how they regard humans. Yes, I know this is of little importance to them, but it interests humans! For the record, I sometimes wondered how my dog viewed me, too. Its not a worry, just a curiosity. Not important, really.
They do not live here, so I can handle or interact with them, if they choose to have nothing to do with me, that's OK by me. It's their life. They live here, so I can live alongside them, for my own selfish enjoyment. I like to observe them, and am eager to help them do their monitor-type activities in any way I can. Reproduction is just one of them, but is an important one, because it results in more monitors, and more chances to see stuff for me. Things they do, really interest me. I'm like that with everything. I can find a caterpillar or snail, and be engrossed for an hour. I find myself watching the mice and the crickets when I had them, for a long time. It takes 3 hours to clean 7 bins. Just because I sit and stare. Roaches are real neat to watch, too. So shy!
Besides my original selfish reason of just wanting an interesting pet, I'm learning more stuff I had't thought of. Like how its a moral issue, to try to breed these animals stolen from nature. They will never go back, but by having babies, perhaps fewer will be stolen in the future? Is this too painfully naive?
So, giving the best life I can manage to the adults, is my first goal. The second is to allow the babies they would like to make, be born. My third goal is to get more species! 
These are my thoughts, a year into keeping. Like my monitors, I don't expect to stay the same. We all evolve. (some don't)
And I am very much enjoying the now. Thanks.
Goon.
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You know what? - Dragoon, Sun Jul 6 20:43:12 2003