Quote Originally Posted by Jmarshall View Post
Okay. Me asking others for their opinions and sharing mine is not judging anyone. Just because something is the way it is and works, doesn't make it ideal or optimum. I believe the purpose of enrichment is giving the animal choice. Again, the information that I provided suggests that an animal eating, shedding, and breeding is not thriving but surviving. I post some information that was put together by an animal welfare scientist with numerous studies and it gets shot down (possibly without even reading very much of it) because breeders have been successful. I bring up a conversation starter to get other peoples OPINIONS. Thank you for sharing yours.
I did not say you were the article is, and it starts by telling people what they should do and I am a firm believer that if it's not broken don't fix it, in other words don't change things because someone tells you to regardless of how you keep your snakes so long it works, in this articles it implies that you should provide enrichment and failure to do so means the animal "just survives" and does not thrive, further in the article it even mentions the impact of enrichment on health and stress, again enriched environment vs bare tub and water bowl when keeping Ball Pythons (again not debating other reptiles where the article actually make good pointa) is all the same one is not superior to the other and both can result in the same benefits or issues.