Its a two way street. every customer who comes into my store looking for a nile monitor knows exactly what they will turn out to be. And they will have to go somewhere else to get one. They go somewhere else, armed with the knowledge that they will get big and ugly and someone else sells them one. If they are informed by that seller does not matter because they already know. People are quick to put the blame on the seller but they fail to hold the buyer responsible. I have found that the majority of people coming into my store looking for animals that I deem inappropropriate, and therefore do not sell, (alligators, corcodiles, venomous, large constrictors, large monitors etc.) know exactly what they are looking for and they know exactly what they are getting. Many of them have already owned such animals and had to get rid of them because they became unmanageable. I had a guy come in looking for an alligator. He just had to get rid of his a week earlier because it was too big and now he wanted another baby. That's the kind of stuff that makes for the eventual headlines. Stupid pet owners are just as much to blame as the irresponsible sellers and when you combine the two look out.

Steve Schindler

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