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Originally Posted by Stefan-A
Do you want to know what caused this mess?
A travelling reptile exhibit, which has been heavily critcized by the herp community for the way they treat their animals (and in some cases, they've allegedly put the visitors in danger), experienced a fire that killed almost a hundred of their animals. It appears that they were storing them in a warehouse among cans of paint thinner and other flammable liquids (also nice fumes to inhale). Well, instead of focusing on the substandard conditions they were kept in, the media jumped on the risk that they might escape in such a situation.
With a little luck, they'll forget about this whole thing. And maybe I'm overreacting.  |
See, the way that people show the reptiles counts for about 99.9% of the audience's reaction. If you're shoving a reticulated python in somebody's face and bragging about how they can eat almost any mammal you put in front of them, you have people walking away with a fear of the animal as opposed to a respect.
When I do demos I always stress that the animal isn't out to get some one; some one's usually out to get the animal.
The media really doesn't help; dedicated enthusiasts do though.
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Also, Stefan, is a certain cat available for use?