Quote Originally Posted by Hypancistrus View Post
Re: retics in particular... the numbers they are bred in are in my opinion unsustainable in captivity. These are massively huge animals and most people who keep other smaller snakes are neither prepared nor capable of handling the needs of these truly giant snakes. If we look at the percentage of reptile owning homes that have the time, space and money to keep a single retic, let alone many, it's very small in comparison. So why are we breeding thousands of these a year? I have the same issue with people importing pacus and arowanas by the hundreds in the aquarium trade. How many people really have the space and money to properly house a 3-5' fish?? It's ridiculous... and it really DOES give HSUS and their kin a foothold in the argument.
And this is where I think SD ares going to allow many to own retics that otherwise could not.

And I'd love to see the various animal hobbies stand up to fight PETA and HSUS. Over the past year or so HSUS has been pretty outed to most. I continue to share both groups messed up ethics and action on FB whenever I see a post pop up and continue to talk to people about them. Most people don't realize they don't own any shelters, use 99% of their money to lobby against owning animals, and the vast amount of animals PETA actually kills, etc.