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Re: Possible Idea!
I notice you just joined the site two days ago. And I'll bet you have "the bug" just like the rest of us. I don't know how much experience you have keeping snakes. But my best advice to you would be to set up a rack and get a very small private collection started. Work with them to learn everything you can.
You can read every book in the world, and spend your whole day on-line, but in the end the only thing that matters is experience. I would keep a small collection for a year or so then re-visit your idea.
Just my .02
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I think the best rescues out there are with people who have many many years of experience with these animals, their own dedicated building, and a strong enough income/donation source. It's also good of there are employees for a larger scale operation (or volunteers) and if the owner can help to being their own vet to the animals.
I have been keeping for 4-5 years and I've always dreamed of starting a reptile rescue for abandoned animals. Not CL animals.. It won't happen until I'm out of college and have at least 5-10 years more of experience and either get my veterinary degree or my herpetology degree.
There are a few other things that stop me. The availability of space I would need to acquire, insurance, weather, age, and experience. My personal collection would also have to be severely quarantined and unrelated to the other animals.
Weather is a big thing though. If I really wanted to start a rescue, I should probably move to Florida, because the humidity and temperatures in IL just do not succumb well in the winter and a lot of larger animals I would want to build enclosures outdoors for like Tegus, monitors, and large tortoises.
So, IMO, starting a rescue could end up like starting a business with zero profit. Your investment in this could be huge.. and rescues should be quarantined from each other so one room is not enough. It feels like your jumping to an exciting idea, but rather you just want more snakes because you love them. I think a better direction would be to add to your collection healthy snakes from quality breeders right now.
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don't worry about that insurance idea. I agree with you and I ma so not a unhonest person so consider that SO not going to happen lol
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Yeah see this is all in idea phase. hence why I asm asking you guys. I have alot of experience with smaller snakes like BP and such and a little with giants. I can always learn more of course. My brother would help me and he has experience also but as I said once again all in thinking phase. I don;t know what it takes to start something like this. That is why I am asking advice.
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I would never hop fully into something like this without complete confidence in what I was doing. Not knowing what it takes as far as money and such is why it is in thinking phase. 5 months to 2 years is normally what most my thinking phase ideas work out to anyways before they ever come to fruit. I owned my own business till recently and that took 3 years of thinking before it went into fruit.
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Originally Posted by Zoomie
Yeah see this is all in idea phase. hence why I asm asking you guys. I have alot of experience with smaller snakes like BP and such and a little with giants. I can always learn more of course. My brother would help me and he has experience also but as I said once again all in thinking phase. I don;t know what it takes to start something like this. That is why I am asking advice.
Have you ever considered answering questions as part of your learning experience?
So far you seem to be going out of your way to not tell us what you know.
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what question did I miss? Sorry I am at work at a call center so I may miss a few things
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Originally Posted by Zoomie
what question did I miss? Sorry I am at work at a call center so I may miss a few things
How convenient.
Same as yesterday.
I smell rotten Tuna now.
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well I am sorry for your smell problem lol. fabreeze can help with that. Until monday I onyl have internet access at work then my services get turned on at my new house. So what question did I miss please?
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actually just forget I said anything. If anyone knows a way to delete this thread let me know. I will keep my mouth shut next time I come up with an idea to help with stuff and just keep it locally thought of. I am sorry if I caused any problems with this post. I just had an idea I thought would be cool to throw around and all that.
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