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Originally Posted by crocdoc
Up until today I was Facebook 'friends' with a guy who owns juveniles of the following species: American alligator, reticulated python, African rock python, scrub python, green anaconda, crocodile monitor, water monitor, blue-tail monitor, Nile monitor, ornate monitor and a few others (I've forgotten which other species he has). He lives in a state which is cold enough that he wouldn't be able to house any of them outdoors when (or if) they reach adult size. I don't know how the alligator or snakes are kept, but the photographs I've seen of his monitors show that they're in glass aquaria with newspaper or astroturf for substrate, with screen tops and apparently no access to proper basking spots. Judging by the post dates on his photographs, none of his animals has grown significantly in the year or so since he started posting photographs of them.
His big thing is all about how tame they are and how he's able to tame them by spending so much time with them. Other people can't tame them as well as he can.
He wants to get a saltwater crocodile one day. I suggested to him that perhaps he should wait until at least some of his animals have grown, to see how he can cope with housing them, before getting any more. I also mentioned that, in my opinion, big crocodiles like Niles and saltwater crocodiles shouldn't be owned by private individuals because they invariably need to be rehomed and then end up moving around so much they end up dead before long. He told me I was negative and I shouldn't get in the way of him and his dreams, so I suggested he de-friend me because I wasn't about to change my attitude towards animal abuse.
He de-friended me, which is good because now I don't have to tell him what I REALLY think.  |
Dave, Stop BSing! You know you love the kid and told him you would get him a nice tame saltie. LOL.
By the way, it was a pleasure hanging out with you dude. Hope you had a good time while you were in NY. Too bad you caught us in the middle of moving the reptile room. It is really coming together now. Got all the varanids moved into the new room and all the snakes are now in the old room.
Oh, I just grabbed us a nice adult pair of pilbara.
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