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Thamnophis sirtalis concinnus Jeremy PS

............it's like I stumbled on a huge multicar pile up, bodies lying everywhere. It’s quiet now, peace has been restored, all the world will sleep at night knowing Mr.Crossman and Mr. Woods are the pioneers of the reptile hobby in Canada............... that is the truth isn’t it???? Cheers, it was fun while it lasted. Jeremy P.S. You’ve won, sit back and enjoy yourself, you’ve earned it. P.S.S. Really you won a long time ago, this was just one last futile attempt to be heard. P.S.S.S. Which one of you wears the skirt?

Oh I see, someone putting a little pressure on you Stav? Jeremy

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................I don't think so. Jeremy P.S. That last picture is hilarious Steven.

That was a very entertaining read Duff. Drymarchon are pretty entertaining feeders and a feisty one that smells food would be fun to try and get out of a cage. Anything that moves is food!! (See D.Pogue’s photo on one of the previous pages with his hand in a couperi’s mouth) Jeremy

Your post Duff was a very good one, but this part in particular interested me. Some people would in the future hope there will be a “Sharp strain Albino Yellow Tailed Cribo”, and they will be able to sell if for the price of a mid size luxury car. The hobby has gone to shit honestly. The majority kiss ass to the people that run the forums and support the “puppy mill” breeders why? They want to build a name for themselves. Be “well know” on a premier reptile website in the US or Canada and you are guaranteed to sell all your stock of deformities before they’ve even pipped out of the egg. At least that’s what they want you to think. When some dicksmoker from the suburbs that runs an arsewhole of a store is the overlord of the “Reptile Hobby” well for me then it’s time to forget this crap and just sit back and look at my pets, yes they are pets to me. Not some baby crapping money making machine. When I sit back and watch them it makes me feel happy, no joke “happy”. It’s not a male enhancer just an enjoyment of something natural sitting in front of me, my own little piece of wild in my living room. Jeremy

Very well said rancor_. Jeremy P.S. Read only P.S.S.that's what I get for not following the rules

Jeremy, could you please cite your sources? You just can't come on here and make such a clearly biased statement about the "coolness" of such a boring, worthless species unless you're prepared to back it up with sereral "Google" sources! I know of one site in particular where the "experts" would show you all the "proof" you could want telling you that you're dead wrong. The "proof" would of course be in the form of a bank statement or maybe even the pink slips to a garage filled with BMW 7 series LOL! Don, I have to say I am NOT "alienated" by the latest load of Thamnophis pics, far from it! Some of those photos are the best I've ever seen of any wild snakes. Just amazing pics, and a few are classics of wildlife photography. I personally could enjoy a huge picture thread with nothing BUT garters . Thanks also for the Tom Petty reference, that CD is one of my favourites. The whole thing is about the destruction of art and music by money grubbers and self serving whores, the "Cash is King" types. Sadly appropriate and relevant to our hobby in 2009. Don should consider going into the music industry, he has quite a talent and has some very good songs about the destruction of the art of snake keeping by money grubbing, self serving whores. I like how when Jon ends a post with the words "Sincerely" he actually means it. Other people will use these words and it has no meaning at all. Jeremy P.S. Garter snakes are still cool. P.S.S. Cribos are even cooler,...................... well they're at least as cool as Garters.

Garters are cool ! Jeremy

The book is a good read for those that want to see how the "industry" works. It's very interesting to read about the people that view reptiles as nothing more than a product. It changed my opinion of several "Big Names" here in Canada. People that just want to sell reptile and don't actually have any real interest in them, although they want the public to think they "care" Other good books are “The Snake Charmer” by Jamie James (I know Don has this one)( ISBN - 10:140130995X ISBN - 13:9781401309954) and Snakebit by Leslie Anthony (ISBN - 10:1553652363 ISBN - 13:9781553652366). The later has a Canadian perspective on herpetology. Jeremy

I thought I would take a stab at this question as it came to my mind this morning while observing a coiled, sleeping Pituophis melanoleucus lodingi. It's seems from my observations that the scales on the upper body of these snakes is like you said, heavily keeled, however on the sides of the body the scale seem to very abruptly lose their keeled surface and become smooth. Jeremy

I was thinking the same thing D.Pogue, Duff is a welcome new member to the VIP Lounge. Jeremy P.S. I like anyone that like melanurus