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I was looking through vet locators because a guy on the herp health forum needed one. I saw a vet in my area listed and decided to look through their website. They have a form for new clients to fill out. At the end they have where you tell them what sort of pet you have. But you can't just fill it in. If you select, say, 'dog', a list of all the breeds pops up and you have to pick one. Here are your choices that come up if you select 'reptile'-

African spurred tortoise
Afro-american sideneck turtle
Agama
Alligator lizard
Anole
Blind lizard
Blind snake
Boa
Box turtle
Casquehead lizard
Chameleon
Cobra
Collared
Coral Snake
Crocodile
Earless lizard
File snake
Gecko
Gila monster
Glass lizard
Horned lizard
Iguana
Krait
Legless lizard
Leopard lizard
Monitor
Musk turtle
Night lizard
Other
Pignose turtle
Pipe snake
Pit viper
Pond turtle
Python
River turtle
Sea snake
Short-tail snake
Sideneck turtle
Skink
Snapping turtle
Softshell turtle
Spectacled lizard
Spiny lizzard
Spinytail lizard uromastix
Sunbeam snake
Tegu
Viper
Wall lizard
Water turtle
Whiptail
Woodsnake
Worm lizard

Typos are not mine.
This really probably isn't their fault, some web company probably wrote the list based on Google hits or something. But you never know. Makes me a bit reluctant to call their "staff veterinarians who possess experience in the care and treatments of exotics"...
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?

ROFLMAO..Afro-American Side-Necked Turtle? Huh??? Some of those are hilarious...and when's the last time you saw someone with Sea Snakes in their collection?

eeks under bed:
THAT'S what's been keeping me up! Quiet down, you stupid hydrophiines!
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?

I knew the smilies would come back to haunt me.
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?

At least they spelled “collared” correctly. I've seen several descriptions lately, at pet stores and over the web, for “collard” lizards... which must be feeder animals that you give to larger herps as a dose of protein along with their collard greens!

I would much rather read about collard lizards than have to read another report of someone finding a couple "strippers" under a board in Southern California. At first, strange images come into my head, but then I realize they are talking about "stripped" (sic) cal kings.
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Chris Harrison

...he was beginning to realize he was the creature of a god that appreciated the discomfort of his worshippers - W. Somerset Maugham

“Stripped” California kingsnakes are just the basic model; no extras at all. They’re cheaper, but they’re not as fancy.

Yes, but the sad part is that the eyeballs aren't standard.
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?

Better knock it off or we'll have to take your smilies away.

Anyway, please tell me that wasn't a member of the ARAV?

-Joan

>>Better knock it off or we'll have to take your smilies away.
No, but it COULD have been!
>>Anyway, please tell me that wasn't a member of the ARAV?
No, but one of the two exotics vets at the animal hospital I take my snakes to IS, and I always specifically request the other one. It's sort of more of a bedside manner thing than a competence thing, although she DID worm my blood python without even asking me.
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?

"...she DID worm my blood python without even asking me."

See, at first I read "worm" as "warm". It took me a while to work that one out.
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