This is strictly my opinion, and it has been for many years. It is far past time, we as a group somehow find a way to self "police" and enforce some sort of standards among ourselves.

Yes, I'm back on the stump for the same old "Self-monitoring Professional Society" thing...for the commercial sector, at least.

It's just not a good idea to have law enforcement, government, and animal rights groups decide the rules and do the house cleaning for us.

Certainly things like this do occur. There are "bad guys" in any field of endeavor, just like there are exceptionally good ones. It is all a matter of statistical inference and the Bell Curve. It should be up to us, ourselves responsible to monitor the standards that WE set and to "throw the bums out". That is, to actually cooperate with Law Enforcement when appropriate.

We need to get proactive on this and get some distance from the outliers.

By the way, I'm not a commercial guy, but I do wish to maintain the ability to keep, breed, buy, sell, and trade Herps as I choose. There are just too many horror stories feeding the AR agenda resulting in proposed legislation that does threaten my future ability to keep, breed, buy, sell, and trade these magnificent animals.

Just my $0.02

jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

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