Melissa Kaplan

[Chris Steele]

I need to get in touch with melissa kaplan. Does she have an email adress?

[C.m.pyrrhus]

Yes. She has an e-mail address.

[KrokadilyanGuy3]

LoL Beau.. Way to be helpful..

[Chris Steele]

lol

Do you know the email addy, pyrrhus??

[Lisa]

i think she's a forum moderator over on kingsnake (i try not to pay attention to her exhistance so i can't tell you for sure)

[C.m.pyrrhus]

I know she is a moderator on the AOL herp boards, but to be honest, asking a 5 year old gets better results if it is a herp related inquiry. Many folks here that I would say for 100% sure that would know what you need to know. Why ask someone who once said Pogona ssp came from Germany? Or that boa constrictors reach 6 feet in a year.....or to feed iguanas carrots and other veggies and fruit, or that snakes come when called...LMAO.

Not to be rude Chris, but I would not recommend her to anyone with herp inquiries. For what it is worth, I would post a thread here and I KNOW you would get far better results.

[Chris Steele]

Thanks, the rudeness is appreciated if its helped me here lol. Does anyone know of a website that has lots of kinds of herps caresheets besides hers?

[Tim_Cranwill]

Just lots in general or anything specific?

[ReptiZone]

You will have 100% better chances to get a straight answer here.
Every one here has a commen knowlege on herps but if you have a specific Question just post it in the right forum and sit back and watch the replys flow in.
You will quickly see that some ppl are hum... more knowlageble then others (there we go that is what I will say No one can get offended this way)
You will spot them.
All that needs to be done from there is bombard them with Pm's LOL....don't do that try and ask all your Questions in one PM but when you get answers new Questions come around so don't think I am telling you that you are limited to only one Pm LOL.

I personaly enjoy chiling out in the large Constrictor sections of the site that is what I know the most about but there ppl here that have forgoten more about reptiles then I will ever learn but they are not here as offten but when they come around you know there here they are the one with the herps you and me could only dream of seeing in real life. Dame you Chris Marshell...LOL J/K man.

well I hope this makes you a bit more at ease with what ever questions in the future.

OHH ya never think your question is dumb the ppl here that actualy have a clue about reptiles have heard them all (figure of Speach) so you would have to wake up early in the morning to blind side them with a question. And if they don't know I am almost sure they know ppl that can get the answer.

Well happy posting

[Chris Steele]

I am looking for alot of different kind of herps caresheets to make links to and I thought it would be better and be more organized if they were all from one site. Also, that way I would only have to email and ask one site for permission.

[brig]

Hearsay has said in the past that Melissa Kaplan is supposed to be pretty knowledgable on Green Igs, and possibly (allegedly) not much else.
I know nuffin about nuffin so not making any personal comment here.
Except that I KNOW baby cornsnakes are NOT fed on crickets. Hence my willingness to pass on 'hearsay'.

I understand you're keen to link to a main, definitive site, but I'm not sure one exists. I would seriously, seriously, seriously recommend looking carefully at everything you link to - you don't want to become associated with stuff that's crap, and there seems to be quite a lot out there - not talking about Melissa Kaplan now (she says quickly before she gets into trouble), just that generally good info is sometimes hard to come by.

Hope you have good luck with your venture...

cheers,
Briggy :)

[Lisa]

ok she's got alot of care sheets. but why would you want to link to wrong information?

I believe NERD has a bunch of care sheets, you are peobably better off getting care sheets from reputable breeders who have worked with the animals rather then people who may have read something about an animal and is adding filler.

[Jeff_Favelle]

Unfortunately, NERD's caresheets are links to Melissa Kaplan caresheets!! So how's that good?? At least, that was the case with the old site. I'm pretty sure Kevin is going to change it, if he already hasn't.

[reverendsterlin]

how did I know that name would get these responses? probably because I have read her stuff lol. Favelle, I expected more from you, drop the nice and go back to the old self we know and love lol.

[Jeff_Favelle]

Favelle, I expected more from you, drop the nice and go back to the old self we know and love lol.


Ummmmmm Rev, might I remind you that YOU are the one with a FLOWER for an avatar?

Hee hee...........


:D

[C.m.pyrrhus]

It would be great IF folks could find a decent place to get husbandry/care sheets. I have noticed a Google search will end up with about 70% of the results being MK sheets or links to her site, and to me it be a scary thing indeed.

To this day I will never understand why folks even suggest that the information she gives is worth a bean. Not only that, but even her 'conservation' pages, they filled with changed information. I know of a guy here in AZ that is very upset that she used him in referance to hunting and collecting herps from he wild, by using his information as a way to push her self-motivated quest to end the keeping of herps. Honestly, that is just messed up. I have no clue why that she gets the following she does. It is a very sad case of why I cannot stand people like her.

Excuse me if i seem rude and not so polite, but I have a great deep down burning feeeling of disappointment from folks like her that disguise themselves as a helpful person, only to use lies and misleading facts to push their own self driven and pointless desires. Not very cool if you ask me.

[Siretsap]

Lol some of you might wnat to check this out

http://www.todaysplanet.com/pg/beta/lizardlover/page14.htm

or this, altough I am not sure if it's the same Melissa or not, but waht the heck, could be her.
http://www.digiclan.org/people/KaplanMelissa.html

and try something, type Melissa Kaplan in the yahoo search. Then check the 11th site found. It's this one on Chronic Fatigue...llololol
http://www.cndsinfo.net/

[reverendsterlin]

sssssshhhh Jeff, you'll expose my camouflage

[Lisa]

Nerd's website doesn't mention melissa kaplan at all

http://www.newenglandreptile.com/care.html

granted some of the caresheets seem like form letters

[Jeff_Favelle]

Nerd's website doesn't mention melissa kaplan at all

Kara probably changed it when they changed over to the new format (which is awesome eh?!!). Good to see.

A little off topic, but the Ball mutation page that Kara and Kevin have cooked up is just DYNAMITE! Gets my juices flowing if you know what I mean!

[Neo]

You will have 100% better chances to get a straight answer here hehe i just find it ironic how no one's answered the thread question :D. but i see that chris steele doesnt really want an answer nemore heh :P.. as for melissa kaplan.. i dun really know her or what she does..

[nolagurl]

Okay I'm confused. I thought Melissa Kaplan was supposed to give great advice? I bought her *Iguanas of Dummies* from a used bookstore and I thought it was pretty concise. (I don't own an iguana btw).
Is everyone just referring to her snake care sheets or her research as a whole?

[eyespy]

MK is a very controversial figure in the ig world and some of her advice has proven fatal.

[marisa]

The diet she recommends is just silly. Not dangerous from what I know, just stupid. She encourages the use of "space waster" veggies/foods in her diet, she encourages supplementation. Now, not saying I am against it but another iguana diet, the Iguana Den Diet uses foods and certain veggies/fruits etc to ensure all vitamins are there. Roxy only gets any "powder" anything when she is gravid. Doing GREAT!

But yeah lots of bad stuff about her, hardly any good.

Marisa

[foman]

Hey Jeff
Ball mutations, Getting juices flowin, I don't wanna Know what ya mean. LOL:bugged: :bugged:

[eyespy]

I really don't have too much of a beef with her diet plan. So many of the igs that come into Penn for bloodwork get either the MK or the Iguana Den diets. If you don't have a chart in front of you and just look at the metabolic profiles and nutrition analyses from the bloodwork you really can't tell which ig had which diet.

But she's got lots of health and husbandry advice that I feel is just plain dangerous and have seen a lot of sick or dead igs whose owners are clutching their yellow and black book when they bring them into the clinic.

[Jeff_Favelle]

hehe i just find it ironic how no one's answered the thread question

If it was an actual husbandry question, believe me, it would have been answered. I have been here since the beginning and I haven't seen one legit husbandry questions go without getting some sort of an answer.

And after reading MK's caresheets back in the day, I wouldn't look to her or those sheets for advice. No way. But, just my opinion. Everyone has the right to do whatever they choose. The crappy part however, is that the animals aren't so lucky.

They have NO choice.

[Mustangrde1]

AAACCCCKKKK That woman's names makes my animals want to puke. However my Iguanas do enjoy reading her books before bedtime for a good laugh.

If you want excellent care sheets on any species try reading the scientific journals on what has been observed in WILD populations. Then learn as much as you can about the country of origin. Specifically Climate conditions and terrain conditions etc. The more you know about the animals natural habitat and conditions of it the better a keeper you will become.

As for good links to add to a page or website if that what your looking for try the different Colleges and Universities sites. Also some state DNR sites have great information. Just don't use Kaplans death for herps sheets please.