Reptiles and their owners especially new owners need some guidance. Guidance should only be given after we completely understand what is going on. Fair warning, this hasn’t peer-reviewed or allowed to sit overnight before posting this is completely off the cuff as they say but I just have to say something. For months now I have come across things like the following on Facebook mostly
Another case of no one asking appropriate ?’s
From a photo of a lizard with statement “She won’t eat.”
So the past two days have been very interesting for me personally. I was told, when I post ‘just a link’ on the social networks as I have been doing for many years, that this is shall we say ‘offensive’ to some. I was told, people wanted the fast answer to their reptile question. The what do I do now? Oh and by the way I don’t have money to do X, Y, Z so I need a different way to solve for problem A.
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I was informed that when I post links without a few sentences to describe what the article is about then I’m being ‘uppity and arrogant.’ Now the article links I post come with a preview generally. This same person believed too that their hypothesis was proven because they’d help build a reptile page and it got almost ‘no traffic’. When informed of the traffic we receive they told me this
“The only reason you get craploads of traffic is because you post your links everywhere.”
Let that sink in before I explain something. No seriously, take a moment and really let that wriggle into your mind. Read on…
Every year hundreds of thousands of pets are abandoned each year. www.petfinder.com states the following.
“According to the World Wildlife Fund-US, imports of reptiles into the United States exceeded 2.5 million in 1996. Add to this the tens of thousands of captive-bred reptiles sold at reptile expos around the country and at local herpetological society meetings, and you begin to understand why this fast-growing market is not likely to dry up anytime soon.”
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No one will answer the why. Not with any truth anyway; depending on who you talk with the answers vary. I’m not an animal activist; I am concerned with animal welfare however whether it be scaly or not. The reason for this particular post is that every week I get numerous emails regarding the captive care of reptiles. They come from an “expert” website as well as via social networks that I frequent. Every week I hear; ‘I bought such and such a reptile and it has (insert your choice of disease or ailment) and I can’t afford a vet can you tell me what to do?’ At least once. Read on…
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