Are the problem. I went to the East Bay Vivarium (which I think is familiar to a few folks here). As my wife and I arrive with a friend of ours (who does not really know herps at all) a guy drives up in his truck and reaches in the side and grabs a monitor and walks away. Our friend says "Oh what was that?" I said I thought it might be a white throat. Being close enough to hear, he very audibly responds by making that "pffff" noise people make when they are scoffing at other people. So I said slightly louder "Am I right?" Trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. Without turning around, he says "NO!" and marches off into the store. My wife says, "did he just...?" and I said "yeah, he just blew us off." As it turns out it was a Savannah, which to my knowledge wasn't even really a whole seperate species until fairly recently, so the mistake, IMO, was reasonable.
It seems to me that this attitude is more common among herp owners, as if the animal, or the knowledge you have acquired about it somehow elevate you to some higher class of human being. That attitiude is getting really old, to me. Anyone else witness this kind of behavior? Know why people have to act this way? Know why it seems more prevalent among those who own herps? Just seeing if I am on my own here.
BTW, he was there to pay $10 to get his monitor's nails trimmed, and he stepped on the store dog while he was there. But he still acted like he owned the place the whole time he was there...
jon
