With all the Petstore problems that people mention I wanted to bring another pathetic and sad story.



My youngest son just started in the 5th grade. His teacher is actually a science teacher by background (which truely scares me). Prior to beginning the school year we went in to meet her and the subject of reptiles came up quickly. I told her we were in the process of getting a bearded dragon and already had a ball python and mountain horned dragon. I also mentioned that I was looking at dart frogs, she immediately interrupted with the fact that they were venomous... I tried to correct her (big mistake) with the facts a) they are posionous... venomous is injected (mostly through fangs) and b) in captivity they do not produce the toxins because they are dietary related. She corrected me with the fact that yes, they are vemonous since they inject via fangs... ok... I let that drop, at which point she said she did like the fact that we picked a snake that did not have teeth... I started to explain that they did have teeth just not fangs, but my wife (thankfully) stopped me. Had that been the end it would have scare enough but it got worse.



My wife and I are currently housing a rescued green iguana and when my son's teacher found out she ask if my wife would bring it in. My wife agreed to it and said that on other visits she would would bring in each of our other reptiles (including our beardie that we have gotten since then).



Once in the class the iguana put on an awesome display of cuteness that was pretty much ruined by the fact the teacher kept calling it a bearded dragon... My wife finally gave up trying to correct her... Green iguana = Green lizard... neat how that works! I fear for my son's education!
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Bryan, Atlanta GA



1-0-0 Ball Python - Apep

0-1-0 Mountain Horned Dragon - Ki

0-0-1 Aggressive Bearded Dragon - Zeus

1-1-0 Rats... no wait... ROTTEN Little Cats - Ra, Bastet

0-1-0 Little Angelic Kitten - Isis

1-0-0 Horse... whoops... BIG Golden Retriever - Jake

0-1-0 Wife

2-0-0 Kids

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