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 #488259


Razeraze
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 Possibly the dumbest question ever.

try not to laugh at me for my ignorance but i went to serpent safari and during the tour they said monitors have no nerves in their tales. are they full of it cause every time i touch my monitors tail they pull it away from me. ???????????????
09/23/05  04:09pm

 #488289


Cilliepogona
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   Message To: Razeraze   In reference to Message Id: 488259


 Possibly the dumbest question ever.

Yes, they are full of it. Every monitor who’s tail I’ve touched didn’t like it very much at all, and they definitely felt it!
09/23/05  04:48pm

 #489001


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 Thats like petstore emplyees, and another place..

I visited once. This place is a reptile attraction with a huge concrete building for 2 enormous alligators and their own swamp area, many venomous, nonvenomous snakes, turtles, tortoise, lizards, etc etc, they do demonstrations every 1-2 hours and have alot to see, but the info given by either employees or the "head honcho" during his demonstrations elsewhere is some far reaching, exagerated, old wives tale stuff sometimes. These places want to tell you what they actually know about them or what you can easily look up in a petstore reptile book, not something that makes them questionable.
The guy offered to rent Sobek for the Conan Obrian show (still havent given his name yet), he told me that when you see these big time animal people on those shows they dont take very many if any animals of their own, they rent them from those who would be willing to be paid to bring them to the show carry them out on stage, and walk back for a few hundred. Ive never gotten a call yet because my schedule explained to him, he needs to give me between 1-2 weeks notice to get off work, these shows call them 1-2 days away at most sometimes.
I dont trust these places and their knowledge on reptiles, nor do I trust claims they make, most times they can easily find replacement animals to cover for animals that are more commonly found when they die, this gives little incentive to keep them properly. When there are so many people with retics, burms, boas, alligators, caiman, iguanas, etc they can easily get away with cheaply bought or many animals given to them for free to replace the animals that die from bad husbandry. A place noitorious for dead animals, sickly dieing animals, etc was busted and closed down last winter in Long Island NY, Long Island Reptile Museum. 180 out of 360 animals I believe were actually alive, no electricity, winter, no heat, no water I believe, they got raided. I was waiting for contact after the court case from the animal shelter about a 5ft plus male Lacie with nerve problems, eating problems to adopt. This place ran a reptile rescue and this business for many years, free animals to make money off of at the suprisingly high admission costs.
09/24/05  12:01pm

 #491395


Razeraze
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   Message To: SHvar   In reference to Message Id: 489001


 Thats like petstore emplyees, and another place..

so you think serpent safari was full of it to? does any one know about monitors nervous systems and not just going from experiance?
09/26/05  02:08pm

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JPsShadow
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   Message To: Razeraze   In reference to Message Id: 491395


 Thats like petstore emplyees, and another place..

Yes they are full of it as I have said before about them. Varanus have nerves in their tails.



09/26/05  06:33pm


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