Comments on: A Ream of Paper, a Photograph, a Child and a Tanned Snake Skin http://ballpythonbreeder.com/2009/12/a-ream-of-paper-a-photograph-a-child-and-a-tanned-snake-skin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-ream-of-paper-a-photograph-a-child-and-a-tanned-snake-skin Ball Python Breeder - Designer Morphs & Investment Quality Reptiles for Sale Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:44:39 -0500 hourly 1 By: Brian Adams http://ballpythonbreeder.com/2009/12/a-ream-of-paper-a-photograph-a-child-and-a-tanned-snake-skin/comment-page-1/#comment-293 Brian Adams Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:59:19 +0000 http://ballpythonbreeder.com/?p=1616#comment-293 All great points to be brought up, but these regulations, even if "beaten" in legislation will never see an end, more attempts to ban these animals will only be broguht up in the future with just words re-written to accomplish the same thing. Its going to be "us" the industry as a whole that needs to self regulate and apply our "un-official" rules and stick to them that will eventually get legislation off of our backs. I personally do not keep large constrictors although I have in the past. However I do feel with my experience I should be able to keep these animals if I feel I want to. But us as sellers, both retail and wholesale we need to set up guidlines we all follow, even if it is just a pre-qualified "exam" we give to would be customers to guage their knowledge and experience on potentially dangerous animals and "us" as a group deny anyone that we feel unfit, the purchase of said animal from our inventory. The downside is, there is always going to be a few bad apples that will sell these animals to just anyone with a pulse and a dollar, those are the people the legislation is trying to control and I think we should be the ones controlling those bad apples....... In wrapping this up, If we control ourselves, whats left for legislation? All great points to be brought up, but these regulations, even if “beaten” in legislation will never see an end, more attempts to ban these animals will only be broguht up in the future with just words re-written to accomplish the same thing. Its going to be “us” the industry as a whole that needs to self regulate and apply our “un-official” rules and stick to them that will eventually get legislation off of our backs. I personally do not keep large constrictors although I have in the past. However I do feel with my experience I should be able to keep these animals if I feel I want to. But us as sellers, both retail and wholesale we need to set up guidlines we all follow, even if it is just a pre-qualified “exam” we give to would be customers to guage their knowledge and experience on potentially dangerous animals and “us” as a group deny anyone that we feel unfit, the purchase of said animal from our inventory. The downside is, there is always going to be a few bad apples that will sell these animals to just anyone with a pulse and a dollar, those are the people the legislation is trying to control and I think we should be the ones controlling those bad apples……. In wrapping this up, If we control ourselves, whats left for legislation?

]]> By: Rebecca http://ballpythonbreeder.com/2009/12/a-ream-of-paper-a-photograph-a-child-and-a-tanned-snake-skin/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Rebecca Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:31:47 +0000 http://ballpythonbreeder.com/?p=1616#comment-170 Very well said Colin. I'm so glad that you wrote what you did about the unfortunate incident with the little girl and the Burmese python. It's surprisingly hard for many of us to write clearly about just how suspicious that incident was. Aside from the elements that you mentioned, the description of the boyfriend's reaction to "finding the snake around the little girl" is particularly shocking to me; does no other parent find the concept of stabbing a snake that is "wrapped around a child" an awfully dangerous thing to do? As a mother, the VERY first thing on my mind is that the girl will get hit with the knife. As an experienced reptile keeper (never having stabbed a snake, let alone one that is wrapped around its prey), I can only think that attacking a snake that is "wrapped around a child" would cause the snake to wrap itself tighter. I think the whole incident stinks on ice, and I wish we could have some kind of a voice in the matter. NONE of it makes any sense. As things stand, we were tried & convicted by the headline the moment it hit the web. Your point about the thoroughly distilled bedtime story is also extremely well illustrated and applied. I have to say though, Maleficent would be a much better adversary; evil and mighty, but once beaten, she gives a gratifying scream and goes away, leaving behind a smear of tattered rags. Our opponents don't have the grace or honor to leave the fight once they have lost... or HR669 would have been the end of this, which we can be assured it is not! Very well said Colin.

I’m so glad that you wrote what you did about the unfortunate incident with the little girl and the Burmese python. It’s surprisingly hard for many of us to write clearly about just how suspicious that incident was. Aside from the elements that you mentioned, the description of the boyfriend’s reaction to “finding the snake around the little girl” is particularly shocking to me; does no other parent find the concept of stabbing a snake that is “wrapped around a child” an awfully dangerous thing to do? As a mother, the VERY first thing on my mind is that the girl will get hit with the knife. As an experienced reptile keeper (never having stabbed a snake, let alone one that is wrapped around its prey), I can only think that attacking a snake that is “wrapped around a child” would cause the snake to wrap itself tighter. I think the whole incident stinks on ice, and I wish we could have some kind of a voice in the matter. NONE of it makes any sense. As things stand, we were tried & convicted by the headline the moment it hit the web.

Your point about the thoroughly distilled bedtime story is also extremely well illustrated and applied. I have to say though, Maleficent would be a much better adversary; evil and mighty, but once beaten, she gives a gratifying scream and goes away, leaving behind a smear of tattered rags. Our opponents don’t have the grace or honor to leave the fight once they have lost… or HR669 would have been the end of this, which we can be assured it is not!

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