Quote Originally Posted by SpartaDog View Post
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.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. It is very clear to me there is an alterior motive to this show and I don't like it one bit. I saw that same episode. The owner also didn't feed the animal enough and it was malnourished. His toxicology showed not only alcohol but cocaine as well. This is NOT the way most reptile keepers behave but this show is trying to make it out that we are all a bunch of anti-social freaks that can't fit into society.