Posted by:
chameleon2005
at Mon Feb 28 12:58:27 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by chameleon2005 ]
I`d have to agree. I do not consider myself to be an expert on reptiles by any shape or form. I have been (un)fortunate enough to witness and make a lot of mistakes so its easier for me to say what not to do 
As far as what to do if.........? Why let it happen? Todd said it best in his previous post, JUST PLAIN DONT GET BIT!
If you smell like food you`ll get treated like food simple, if you are making stupid mistakes like that then boids are not for you. Whenever I defrost food for any reptiles they do not get handled in the same day regardless of defication etc. Just because the food is in another room defrosting doesn`t mean the snake cannot sense it is there, you can smell bacon being cooked from your bedroom?
Although on the other point raised, i am guilty of re-homing a burm. I bought myself a female late last year to breed with my male, i was convinced that it would work out ok. WRONG, there is no place for more hatchling burms AT ALL!! I couldn`t trust myself to have kept her and not bred them together at one point, so i sold her on to a friend. I am not proud of that, just wanted to prove my initial point of saying that i am no expert i have seen and made mistakes, thats all.
It is depressing for me to say, i feel that some restrictions on the number of burms available has to be made, i know that this is impossible to enforce, i dont want to see them banned but who is kidding who? I am sorry to say, its going to happen!!
Realisticly it is going to be a case of damage limitation and fight for animals that everyone can care for; gecko`s, corns, kings etc
Phil
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