Quote Originally Posted by lord jackel
I am curious...why if they have been in captivity for so long do you need to take them to the vet? Do you not trust the person you are getting them from? Having been in captivity for a year most any issue related to them coming from the wild would have shown up by now...especially parasites and ticks?
I think this gets into the whole quarentine issue and can you really ever "trust" the person you are getting them from and i think this person is lookin to get everything started as "clean" as possible. I don't think it is a bad idea.

With internal parasites, they may be in balance with the animal for a year because they were comfortable and not stressed (just guessing) and then comming into a new "home" could stress them to the point where they are negatively affected by the residual parasites in the gut.

~mike