new show called aliens and fatal atraction

[Skiploder]

even though skips, were are truth hurting, i guess it is mostly right, but the show was filled with lies, remember, when it showed the snake slithering and said, this thread coud be on it way to you, are somthing like that. at some point they were trying to say it going to spread world wide, it is plain to see that the snake media is all one-sideded but i agree not anyone should buy a large snake, but online breeders can't hav a screening process

How about breeders at Reptile Expos - and I disagree with the screening process part - where there is a will, there is a way. The only "will" is the one tied to green pieces of paper with pictures of dead presidents on them.

As for the show "Aliens" I found it alternately filled with exaggeration and truth. After reading the diatribes on this thread I wondered if I was even watching the same show that got some of you all worked up and sweaty.

I'm wondering why all the outrage is focused on the bit of exaggeration and drama, instead of the true facts that the show presented.

This is a man-made problem caused by people in the exotic pet hobby. I see very few people stepping up to the plate and trying to fix what's wrong with the exotic pet trade. However, I still see "respectable" breeders selling giant constrictors, large varanids and in some case hots to anyone with the money to buy one.

USARK took some positive first steps in North Carolina with the legislation they introduced and it was widely derided in our community for it's guarantees of proper, responsible ownership enforcement of potentially dangerous reptiles. I am more outraged at people who oppose such proactive attempts at legislation and people who blithley ignore the fruits of their own misdeeds than I am at the small bits of sensationalism portrayed in Animal Planet's programming.

You all better focus on cleaning up the messes in our own little community before your whip out the pitchforks and march on NG and AP.