A Friendship Dilemma

[dr del]

Hi,

I NEVER promoted the "illegal ownership and trafficking of species." If I am correct, the English dictionary defines the word PROMOTING as follows:

to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further:

And the deffinition of traffiking is;

1. To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade. [1913 Webster]

So when he gives you a refund and you ship him back the snakes you would be........

The report has been made. Therefore, I am not promoting anything against the site's rules.

So now a report has been made? Only you failed to mention this at any earlier point and I seem to have left my telepathy in my other pants.

Would this be independantly verifiable at all? Wes?

But even so you still expressed an intention or at least a willingness to consider traffiking the animals.

Ok, so he's offered me a refund, without the shipping, of course. That's just a loss we both take. I accept that.

But... I'm afraid the rosie's in particular may not make it. We're both in California though, so they wouldn't be traveling far, just from SoCal to NorCal on one overnight trip.

And of course you are without doubt currently in ownership of illegally collected animals by your own admition.

This is exactly what's wrong with the herp community! Instead of making judgment calls, and layin' out the law you should be advising and encouraging!

No sir.

We are not what is wrong with the herp copmmunity.

But since you asked.

I advise you to stop breaking herp related laws before you damage anyone elses ability to own or ship animals.

And I encourage you to live a useful and productive life that doesn't result in you being in the newspaper giving the HSUS and their cronies more ammunition to fire at us.

And I never said I was going to ship them back, I simply stated that I was offered to ship them back.

Covered above.

I've made the report. What now?!

I'm hoping your friend gets arrested and you surrender the animals and give evidence against him.


dr del