"why the reluctance to buy the book? It’s most likely cheaper than the snake, and it’s definitely cheaper than the combined cost of the first snake, & replacement snake you may have to buy because you didn’t know how to care for the first snake"


That's the very first part that caught my eye too!

Why would someone not want to "know" precisely how to maintain them properly, and simply ask a few forum questions here and there that you wouldn't really remember all the fine details to anyway, when you could get a good book and refer to it whenever you wanted for countless years to come???

I was just talking to Don Soderberg about this very same thing just TODAY!. The internet is a great tool, but it also is a means for people to get instant gratification, but unfortunately most people only retain bits and pieces from it when they would be far ahead of the game if they just read about the subjects they really want to know and learn about....not guess about!

I have stacks of snake books several feet tall, and have been reading about snakes for almost 44 years now. The internet is a good supplementing tool, but you will NEVER get from it what you can from good books, especially for a rock-solid understanding foundation. It just won't happen.



~Doug
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