Career Opportunity – Manager needed immediately for large reptile breeding operation

[drawoh]

Career Opportunity – Manager needed immediately for large reptile breeding operation. Salary with commissions start at around $25,000 a year with the opportunity to make more than double. Position includes fully furnished newly built home, all utilities, cable, full time maid and a truck. Must have extensive reptile-breeding experience. Serious inquires only may call 225-381-0617 or email drawoh@reptilerepublic.com for more information.

[XxRachxX]

jeez!i waaaaaant the joooobb! meh no fair..id love a maid im so messy!

[JasonBrennan]

Now that is a job offer!!!!! At first the pay does not sound so good, but then add the house, the truck and the MAID!!!!!! I would snatch that job up in a heart beat (if only........*sigh)

[Lisa]

probably 25k us funds too. sigh

[dead bob]

Looks like one heck of an operation too....:eek: :eek:

Reptile Republic (http://www.reptilerepublic.com/)

[silke]

was this not the site that was giving away 25 free iguanas to 1 person ?
not sure....

[KrokadilyanGuy3]

....I could so Manhandle that job. To bad I'm still in school.

[M_surinamensis]

Yeah, your life is hell, isn't it Zane?

If it weren't for the reputation Reptile Republic has got and the fact that I'd worry about never being payed and possibly arrested, I'd jump on it myself.

[royal]

M surinamensis I dont know if you seen the thread, but they(ssnakess.com) are asking that peoples signatures be no more then 4 lines long. Just figured id point it out.

[Lisa]

I've never heard anything about Reptile Republic, all I've seen is that they're owned by Fluker Farms. Only news artical I can find on them is http://www.businessreport.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=businessreport&story.id=2705

[CheriS]

Fluker Farms International Reptile, Iguanas Tropicales and the
Reptile Republic are controled by Howard Fluker(note the name in the email is Howard reversed). Fluker Farms is controled by David his brother. Seperate companies that share many of the same stockholders.

Silke, yes it was, and was going to give away 2 bearded dragons daily for the months of August and September, but they stopped it a few weeks into the contest, due to the complaints from people receiving very ill, infected animals

Lisa, you can learn a lot about them by going the the RR website that was listed previously by dead bob and go to forums>>>bearded dragons and read the post by people who received bearded dragons direct from them from 8/22 for the next week(there were post prior to that, but those have been deleted). That can tell you more than you probably ever want to know about Reptile Republic or have to experience first hand.

dead bob "Looks like one heck of an operation too" go back to the site and really look at it. The chat rooms are disabled, live vet it advertizes is gone, and the forums died after the diseased bearded dragons they shipped became so known and discussed, even with them deleting many post and banning many words like adenovirus in post, there is still enough there to see what happened and what this company was doing. The post up there still show the banning certain words in post. It appears that RR has abandoned the site basically. I wonder if they even realize it is still accessible as a monument to their past actions, or how long it will be?

Thats not the first time they have done something like this, several years ago it went on for months also with their diseased iguana's.

Sadly, that was forgotten as new people entered the hobby and were not aware of the history of this company, also as this last round with BD will probably be forgotten and move on to the next species.

Let hope this time he finds someone willing to take a position with a company with that rep that knows a bit more about the basic health and well being of the animals and not just mass producing them for profit

[JasonBrennan]

I don't know anyting about the company, I was just commenting on the "desirablity" of such a job, if it were true!!

[CheriS]

Oh, the job offer is true, its in Central America, El Salvador working with non native species. But, IMO, more than pay, housing and a maid make something desirable. I realize it would be working with a product that is something we all love, but you have to look at the company, their rep, what their goal is and the job security or past history of it.

[norman]

Heh, sounds familiar, (no names mentioned untill i have another way of getting money) just on a bigger scale, and a maid!

[eyespy]

Guess they wouldn't hire me even if I wanted the job. I was banned from Reptile Republic's website after posting about a rescue case of mine involving 2 of their animals who had a relatively rare strain of cryptosporidiosis more commonly found in turkeys. Both animals died, but not before infecting a 7 year old girl who ended up with kidney failure due to severe dehydration. Thankfully she has made a full recovery but was very sick for 5 months.

They banned not only me, but all available IP addresses at my ISP.

I suppose I'm dangerous. ;)

[Youkai]

Are these the guys who sent out all the spam about their reptile classifiedes, etc? Correct me if I'm wrong...

[krrc]

this breeder doesent sound like someone good to work for from what I gathered they exploit their animals and I highly dissurige anyone from takeing it. I may have misintupreted this.

(if this post is questionable to any of the mods please deleate it because I dont want any problems, Thanks!)

[krrc]

I know petsmart told me that they get their animals from fluckers (spelled f*ckers the first time. it was funny to me :)) so could this be the breeder they are really geting them from?? more dirt on petsmart yea!

[V.aw]

It baffles me that this company is still in operation. When do the animals become eligable for rights?

If a company mass produces dogs in horrible conditions they usually get exposed and shut down.. Why is it so difficult to help out the poor herps?

[krrc]

no kidding I've tryed many times and it is very difficult to do anything.

[paul_le_snake]

not that i agree with what they are doing, y are ppl making such a fuss about them???? all they're doing is the exact same that so many of u said was good for the hobby..they are farming reptiles, what makes u think that any other farm (in indonesia exporting bloods for example) is any better than them?
cheers
paul

[katev17]

I think it's the fact that they were giving away / selling animals that were sick and diseased which was making everyone upset. If they can't even provide for and take care of the animals they're "producing" (You know what I mean), then they shouldn't be in the business at all. That's what everyone was getting upset about I think.

Kate

[eyespy]

I know a few folks who are working with the El Salvadoran government to try and restrict shipping to keep sick animals out of the US. I've not heard if anyone is trying to restrict shipping to the other nations where Reptile Republic exports.

It's really an uphill battle though. Since El Salvador is a third-world economy animal rights are just not seen as very important. Human rights arent' very well protected there so animals suffer even more.

I've been working with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of Agriculture to try and close the loopholes which allow sick reptiles to enter the pet trade. Each department seemed to think it was the other one's jurisdiction and the animals fall through the cracks. Ag only helps certain mammals. FWS helps native fish, birds, reptiles etc. and just a select few imported species. Every other herp falls through the cracks at present but folks are working on closing them up.