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captainmerkin
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:19 pm    Post subject: metro article today Reply with quote
basically saying that thanks to life in cold blood on bbc1 currently, pet snake, skink, monitor and frog sales have sky rocketed..


also lead pet suppliers are "stocking up" for next weeks snake episode.

basically the article encouraged these kind of animals as pets and put an only downside or limitation on the fact they require heating and cost next to nothing to feed..

can't say I approve of this sort of thing having seen snake adoption places that are full the the brim with discarded snakes people no longer want to take care of.

obviously we all start somewhere and not always in the most ideal ways but I think if this trend is going to keep on going for a while after the series then pet shops need to make sure people are told about what it really means to own animals, especially ones which dont live entirely off cuddles and food out of a can.

And please dont run teenage mutant ninja turtles again straight after this series we all know what happened that time round!
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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can't say I approve of this sort of thing having seen snake adoption places that are full the the brim with discarded snakes people no longer want to take care of


I can see a way out of this situation, get a couple of Indigos, and there will never be a surplus or any such thing as an unwanted snake. I hear it all the time "I've had this corn snake for a year and now I want something different like a kingsnake or a royal." , but God forbid that I suggest feeding the unwanted pets to my kids. If your snake is so precious then commit to it and keep it till it dies of natural causes. Ok so there are few solutions to surplus Burms or Retics other than the leather trade but....

Indies eat snakes and there are loads of unwanted snakes around that will never find a new home....... just a thought. Twisted Evil

Another option is to make the cost of buying these animals prohibitively expensive, I bet people would think twice about throwing away a £1000 corn snake.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
whats an indigo?

true price would be a good deterrant but that would peanalise budding keepers who really do want to persist!
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