Talk About... Quarantine Practices!

[Linds]

Hehehe... it's funny how you state your general feelings on a subject, and because it is not what people want to hear, it is automatically termed an insult

Originally posted by Classic
Linds, You cant insult other peoples practices.
Does that "SuperModerator" title mean anything?

When did disagreeing with someone's practices, and considering them to be insufficient by my personal standards, become insulting? I'm sorry you guys find my general opinions so insulting and deeply personal. I fail to see what my position on the site has anything to do with this either, I wasn't flaming anyone or acting anything less than civil, I was simply stating my opinion, as a concerned member. Maybe instead of getting upset about my feelings, all the people that are in opposition to my standing on the topic, could use it as possible perspective in terms of business... because I'm not the only one out there, as mentioned in my previous post, that feels that way. These discussions are meant to be constructive, not turn in to a sorry match of insults and accussations.

Do what you can, no doubt about that. And do what makes you feel comfortable but don't fool yourself into believing that you have a proper quarantine system in place, because you don't.

quarantine (definition #3 by The American Heritage Dictionary): Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

This is in essence, any level, it doesn't need to be the most extensive setup in the world to be considered a method of quarantine, just a series of restrictions paying special attention to the possibility of disease. Just because I don't have government standardized setups, like you may find in a lab, is not to say I don't have a relatively ok system in the works.

Originally posted by Tim_Cranwill
And don't try to make me look like a pet shop, because I'm NOT.

You aren't a pet shop, but some of the practices you have mentioned ARE similar. I worked in a storefront at one time.. we only purchased outwardly healthy animals, and all were treated with BK or Provent-A-Mite upon arrival, anytime animals changed cages, everythign was cleaned with dishsoap then disinfected with betadine before a new animals entered... yet they still had shared supplies, no hands were washed in between, and no animals were given a quarantine period. I merely said, I -personally- consider animals coming from such communal environments to be of high risk, and as such, I treat them the same as I would animals from pet shops. This is how I feel, again, not meant to insult you or anyone else out there. This is just how those situations arrange themselves in my mind o>

And on another note, its YOUR collection, so do what you want. Fully. NO ONE can tell you differently. But keep in mind, the industry is COMPETITIVE. There's a LOT of people producing a LOT of animals. So when all other factors are equal, its going to a feather in your cap to be known for good husbandry and quarantining practices than to not be. There's going to be people offering the exact SAME animals at the exact SAME prices as you. What's going to separate you from the next joe-shmoe?

This was my entire purpose for voicing my thoughts... lol you said it a heck of a lot better than I did though!