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Austin Stevens abusive handling and bad information gives a bad image of reptiles in general. When the public judges herpers and reptiles by a TV image of how dangerous they are. Then this could lead lawmakers to banning reptiles.
Write AP at www.animalplanet.com and let them know how you feel about this show. We will only get good shows when networks know we don't want bad shows.

Jim Harrison

I saw the show on Perenties.

He is a pretty lame collector, but pretty harmless if you ask me.

It took me about 3 hours in the right area to find a perentie. It took him a week or two.

And the perentie he did find looked like a captive specimen to me.

Want to know why the perentine looked liked a captive specimen.... Because it was.... Just like most of his other stuff. His animals are either drugged, staged, captives or all of the above. Rarely does he work with true specimens. Like for example when he pulled the 15ft molurus out of the cave.... Impossible for a man like him to do that himself, and the animal looked perfect and in great body weight.... Wonder why? And don't even get me started on the episode when he caught 7 hots and got bit by 3 of them!! WTF!! And the Gabby he caught swimming in the river was obviously drugged, staged, and probably a well done venomoid. There is no way, I mean no way you can do that to a gabby. He was handling it like a corn snake which is impossible with a gabby like that in the wild. And did you realize, his stuff have all these matrix style footage? That means they had to set it up before hand and then get the animals there and stage it. For example the episode with the "tame"drugged) wc(staged cb)green anaconda. They were doing all those camera tricks and he was throwing it around acting like it was trying to bite him!! And the episode when he captures the retic.....BS!! You want to know why? Because in the begining he has a day dream where that very same retic had him on the floor constricting him. Now how did they make that shot? It was obviously stagged with that drugged retic. And you know, smaller retics are much more common than larger ones. It really gets me how he didn't come across any small common ones, yet found a slender 15ft or so retic.

NP

The wild perentie I saw ran at about 100 miles per hour and there is no way one guy could have run him down and captured it.

Only way your gonna get one is to chase it down a hole and dig it out.

I was just checking him out on the animal planet site... this guy is annoying, I don't like him at all. His favorite line is "this thing will eat anything!", it doesn't matter what it is.

He's only a photographer... I hope he gets taken off the air and replaced by someone else more knowledgeable.

I just always assumed that most of the reptile 'great white hunter' types were working with animals that had spent several hours in a nice iced down cooler. Haven't seen this latest bozo, but the ads I saw sure did not impress me.

Leslie

This dude can take some lessons from Steve Irwin. I like the way he teaches respecting the animals even if he doesn't. I just have to watch his show, it's like a train wreck waiting to happen.

Scott
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Yeah, I sometimes wonder if Steve Irwin realizes that a lot of people watch his show just in the hopes of seeing him get nailed. My husband is always rooting for the reptile, "Go ahead, bite him, bite him!" LOL

Leslie

I have a question. I havent watched this show yet because well, im usually at work.

BUT is this same same..... ummm... Fellow who did the most venomous snakes a few years ago and got nailed by two of them?
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Cindy
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Land of the Outcasts!

Hey all,

If you really don't like him, go to the Discovery Channel website and do a search for "Contact Discovery Channel". This should lead you to a link where you can send a message to Customer Relations. I did. I wrote and politely but emphatically requested that they cancel his show. Hit him where it hurts. If he gets enough bad press, he'll get chucked out, and he won't be able to harass any more animals. Here's hoping!!