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With much regret, I shipped out the last of my hatchling bairds rat snakes that I produced this past year. I'm expecting more eggs any day now but in the meantime, I worked on building up my personal herp library. I've gotten into collecting herp books.

Here are a few MUST HAVE BOOKS that I recently acquired:

Of Golden Toads and Serpents' Roads
by Paul Freed (Jul 2003) based on a recommendation Bill Love made to someone else in the book/literature forum

A Snake Hunting Guide: Methods, Tools, and Techniques
for Finding Snakes
by Will Bird and Phil Peak (Paperback - Dec 7, 2007). A NEWER book I came across by accident surfing some herp websites. VERY WELL WORTH THE MONEY! GREAT PICS & EVEN BETTER TIPS!

Snake Hunting on the Devil's Highway
by Richard Lapidus

Cobras in his Garden
by HARRY KURSH; antique book about Bill Haast published in 1965. It may require a bit of work to find it & it's pricey ($100-$400 depending on condition)

Living on the Edge: Amazing Relationships in the
Natural World
by Jeff Corwin - seems like a cool book...recommended by a friend.

Snakes: The Keeper and the Kept AND
Snakes and Snake Hunting
both by Carl Kauffeld (Hardcover-1957)

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Sincerely, Jason
www.NortheastSnakes.com
NortheastSnakes@verizon.net

glad to see i'm not the only kooky one who MUST have snake books
~kin
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~Sober Serpents~
www.freewebs.com/soberserpents
Corns, Creamsicles, A Black Rat, Thayeri, Cal Kings, A Jungle Corn(Just A Pet), A Ball Python, A Bearded dragon, Leopard Geckos, Green Anoles, a Snapping turtle, and a white cheeked mud turtle

If you ask me, I think it's "kooky" NOT to have snake books. If people read more about the animals they enjoy, they'd be MUCH more informed, and would be able to make much better decisions about proper care/maintainance, etc...

Also, the snakes would be much better off if people read more, they would already know what to do if a problem ever DOES arise, instead of making poor husbandry choices, and substandard conditions for the snakes, then let the problem(s) go on forever and become even worse,....THEN maybe eventually get around to asking on the forum about a certain problem they have with a snake that's practically on it's last breath, and ready to "kick the bucket" in a day or two........

Okay, rant over,...........for now..LOL!

~Doug

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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

i understand people buying 1 book about cornsnakes.... but i buy every single book...And morph guide i can. i just like to know what different peoples ideas are and the new morphs and what not each year
~kin
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~Sober Serpents~
www.freewebs.com/soberserpents
Corns, Creamsicles, A Black Rat, Thayeri, Cal Kings, A Jungle Corn(Just A Pet), A Ball Python, A Bearded dragon, Leopard Geckos, Green Anoles, a Snapping turtle, and a white cheeked mud turtle

Yeah, I have a pretty extensive snake library too, of ALL types. You know the ol' saying,...."the more, the merrier!"..LOL!

~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"