I don't post here, because I don't keep these species, but this seems to be the most active turtle group, so I thought you guys might get a kick.
Have you guys heard about the salmonella outbreak caused by contaminated peanut butter.
Most of the peanut butter linked to the bacteria, was distributed in bulk to certain institutions rather than the jars of peanut butter in stores, as the two news quotes show below.
"Health officials recommended nursing homes, hospitals, schools, universities and restaurants that purchase the two brands discard them."
"To date, common brands of peanut butter sold to consumers in grocery stores do not appear associated with the outbreak."
So, it seems as though for children, eating school lunch or eating lunch with grandma at the nursing home, is just as, if not more dangerous than handling reptiles.
So since we banned the sale of small turtles and we would really like to ban all reptiles, maybe we should just consider banning all peanut butter, or maybe we should just ban lunches, or at the very least ban lunches at school and nursing homes. Or, we could ban all lunches over 4 ounces, that way you might just get a little sick instead of dead. Then we would have a 4" and a 4oz rule that makes sense. Please excuse my sarcasm, I guess I woke up ornery today.
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Jeff Benfer
1.0 cinnamon pastel Python regius
1.1 pastel Python regius
1.1 mojave Python regius
0.3 normal Python regius
1.3 Terrapene carolina thriunguis
2.3 Terrapene carolina carolina
4.1 Kinosternon baurii
1.1 Malaclemys terrapin terrapin
2.2 double het albino and anerythristicThamnophis sirtalis parietalis
1.0 anerythristic Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis
2.3 Iowa snow Thamnophis radix
0.2 het Christmas albino Thamnophis radix
1.1 double het cherry erythristic, albino Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 melanistic Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
2.0 66% het snow Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 triple heterozygous for amelanistic,carmel, and stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 anerythristic motley Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 butter p.h. stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 carmel stripe p.h. amel Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 amelanistic p.h. carmel,stripe Pantherophis guttatus

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