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I hope some of you got to see the show. A large tiger retic was found wrapped around a 3 yr old child. The idiot owners were too stupid and cheap to have proper caging. Fine the fools $50,000 at least. They are going to make lrg pythons a thing of the past. Educate the buyer as much as possible, and due some due dilligance. You may not get the immediate sale, but you may save a wonderful trade and hobby from being taken away from all of us and our children forever.

Yeah, I saw that. We sure didn't & don't need more bad press. The story they were talking about is the same one linked in a post a few threads below.

"The idiot owners were too stupid and cheap to have proper caging. Fine the fools $50,000 at least. They are going to make lrg pythons a thing of the past.

You may have missed it but the couple was keeping the snake for someone else. It was not their pet. Megyn Kelly said so in the interview and the more recent & accurate articles mention it, too. I do believe that the parents should be held accountable for what happened.

"Educate the buyer as much as possible, and due some due dilligance."

Like I said in the earlier thread, I do believe in using discretion & being informative, however, the overwhelming majority snake incidents in the press, if not all, could not have been avoided in the way you suggest. Buyer education, or the lack thereof, is not what's jeopardizing our hobby. What's jeopardizing our hobby is the lack of public education. What are you doing about that? (I don't mean "you" as in specifically the original poster, I mean everyone.)

All I'm saying is to keep things in perspective, folks. That's all! Buyer education is a worthy cause, topic. For those of you that are calling for buyer scrutiny, education, etc, please, by all means, throw some ideas out on the table and let people discuss them.

Have a good one!
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