Nigel on Conan...

I saw it and was not impressed; kinda upsetting. I'm pretty sure any snake will get nippy when being handled with one hand and jostled through the air left and right.

i thought it was an entertaining show o.O sure it didnt show the reptiles at their finest, but it was interesting to see them. the most calm animal was the LARGEST animal of the all ^-^

I saw animals being animals.

I really didnt see anything that out of the ordinary.

Be honest, I mean we all know that this happens with any kind of snake.

It's part of the hobby, but I don't think it should be used as an example of what reptiles are like. If I was showing a group of friends my reptiles I wouldn't pull out a WC burm or a rear fanged Mangrove and let them bite me.

You can be entertaining without being shocking. The audience ooh'd and ahh'd over that frog and it just sat there, the big retic was the grand finale and it didn't poop or bite or anything, it was just an amazing animal that isn't often seen in the media other than when a keeper does something wrong.

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Originally Posted by Steve_Ray

The audience ooh'd and ahh'd over that frog and it just sat there, the big retic was the grand finale and it didn't poop or bite or anything, it was just an amazing animal that isn't often seen in the media other than when a keeper does something wrong.

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:gj: good point haha

but people cheered and got excited over seeing the active animals

IMO: thats wut tv wants to display. excitement, not oooh ahh. lol

I think everything went perfect... Im not sure what this was supposed to be about, but considering Nigel Marvin was the guest, im guessing it was supposed to look at true wild animals.... I look at reptiles in two different ways... 1 way (our way), clean, captive bred, tame PET reptiles... Then a second way (Nigel's Way), Wild caught, crazy aggressive, intimidating animals... And obviously Nigel isn't going to come out with a few hatchling ball pythons and a captive bred albino burm, when his way/theme is that of someone like the crocodile hunter.... I dont think this had any affect on the way people think of reptiles as pets... It just affected their realization on how much further they should stay from reptiles in the wild... Now if they wanted an episode to positively affect how people thought of Captive PET reptiles, they should do a "Reptiles As Pets" episode...

Could have been better, they should have had more tame snakes so people know that they aren't all aggressive like that. A wild burm from the Everglades...yeah, I don't think that was the best representative. Besides that and the obese water monitor, I don't think it was too bad...