OMG! Look what the opposition is doing!

[PurplePython]

Its not something that hasnt been said to death at this point. What that doesnt justify is that kind of hate filled, misrepresented bias. Every following has people that abuse and misrepresent it. While two wrongs dont make a right, it doesnt make mean that we need to sit back when those outside of our hobby choose to attack it in this fashion. Many of us ARE stepping up and working towards education, but you are never going to eradicate it. There are tons of good and loving pet owners out there and nearly as many people who either dont care or care more about the dollar in -every- aspect of pet keeping. Its a problem that needs to be fixed country wide, but it doesnt need to be fixed by people spewing hate and false information like its truth. It also doesnt need to be fixed by pointing fingers unless its directly at those people who are mismanaging the care of their animals.

You are absolutely right that it doesn't mean they should be able to make up stuff to make us reptile owners look bad. But the bottom line is, these people wouldn't be making up all of this crap to try to end our rights to own these pets unless there were these terrible reptile owners out there doing this kind of stupid crap like feeding dogs and cats to snakes.

Am I mad that these people are making up stuff to make these animals look too dangerous to own? Yeah, I am. But can I understand why they want these animals banned based off of all of the bullcrap surrounding this hobby? I can see understand that too.

I see both sides of the coin. If these people that are encouraging the ban have other reasons why they want these animals banned as pets, then of course they are going to make up facts or make problems seam bigger than they are.

People will do that naturally if they are against something.