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Originally Posted by RioBravoReptiles
... as was just mentioned.. such a ban may curtail many of the yahoos and idiots from tearing down our hobby through their home movies of their 'dumb-and-dumberer', 'watch-this' stunts.
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Ultimately, however, the concept that such a law would be needed is in itself an attack on the hobby and industry. It would focus more unfair scrutiny on the details of the husbandry of reptiles.. by people who have little or no context or experience to make proper judgements.
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Wanna stop the live-feeding yee-haw cowboys? Ignore them and put them down whenever they get in your face. And always educate people about the animals and our interests in them and the truth about the non-problem of captive reptiles... The whole hysteria-mania-pop-star environment would simply go away if everytime somebody jumps on a big snake in Venezuela on TV or hams-up wrassling a 'glades' burm for the kids (of all ages) .. that people would just change the channel or whatever.. No more problems for anybody.
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That's some of my opinion on that.
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Well, I guess I was thinking more of what it might do to promote a positive image of the majority of reptile keepers as being humane folks who care about their animals. And, that it might help the frozen feeders businesses too.
The decline of the superstar live feeding showmen would just be a nice side effect.
