Musings of The Herp Father

Musings of The Herp Father is a look through the sometimes jaded eye of someone who was once a breeder & decided it was better to educate than create new morphs to make money with.

Dangerous Dollars: Breeding Large Snakes

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Policing the Reptile Industry I spoke to a colleague recently on the phone and we were speaking of various aspects of herpetoculture. We spoke of the impact of media hype, legal allegations of animal rights groups, as well as policing our own industry. I say industry because, well fact is, we aren’t a community. That’s […]

Glades Herp: A Community Divided

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The U.S. Department of Justice released a statement on Tuesday that Robroy MacInnes and Robert Keszey of Glades Herp Farms were charged in a two count indictment in Federal court regarding conspiracy to traffic in endangered and threatened species of reptiles as well as trafficking in protected timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) which is a direct […]