Quote Originally Posted by Stubean15 View Post
i understand how its a little unfair about reptile owners but ALOT of the people on there did have mental problems.. i saw one were a guy spent every penny he owned on monitors (dont remember what kind) had no friends and kept to himself.. had like 13 (just a guess but an insane amount for sure) over 4 ft with free reign of his house and was eaten by them and no one knew for more than a week he was only found because of his smell which was almost drowned out by the smell of the monitors and the truth is people should be discouraged from doing that sort of thing..
No one's questioning that the individuals usually have mental/emotional/social problems. But the show makes it seem like all reptile keepers behave this way and that is what's not fair. It's only spreading the misconceptions about responsible reptile keepers and that's what feeds anti-exotic pet laws and things like that.

I'm actually watching one as I type about a man who kept a Burm, just one, for fifteen years, and one night he got drunk and hit his head on the tank so that he was bleeding. He fell into the tank, the snake tried to eat him, he died. In the beginning of the show, the narrator said something like "We may never know what combination of loneliness, desire, and sadness would cause a person to keep the company of animals like these". I don't think there's a single Burm owner out there that wouldn't be offended by that statement.