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Granted your experience is far greater than mine, but you elude to the fact that both yourself and Rob have been successful in breeding large numbers from wild caught animals (in the case of womas). So then why do you continue to plunder the wilderness for additional specimens? I regularly see animals on your website that don't appear to be anything overly unique from what you now have available that has been bred in captivity.
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Well since your whole paragraph seems to be referring to woma’s?, then let’s discuss this. For your information I have no longer an immediate need to collect woma’s or black-headed pythons any more for our personal breeding programs and therefore seldom do so. Secondly you claim to regularly see animals on the website and yet the same woma’s have been advertised for the last twelve months are nearly all captive bred which seems somewhat irrelevant to this debate. It has to be remembered that even if I am successful in setting up breeding programs through the good results of others that produce captive bred pythons out side of W.A, I can not import them back into this state meaning that there is still a shortage in some cases of available captive bred snakes for the growing numbers of new licensee’s within this state. I will not pretend that there won’t be at times additional woma specimens harvested when required for our selves in the future or to supply to someone else who perhaps prefers a wild caught specimen over a captive bred, which by the way is often the case. While the D.E.H scientists believe that the species taken currently will not be detrimental to the sustainability of their existence in the wild, I morally have no problems with it.
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In regards to Simon's comments, maybe he was generalizing, and as you have agreed with, a lot of wild caught animals are difficult to breed in captivity.
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Generalizing or not, his statement was a warning against obtaining W.A wild caught reptiles without telling the full story and I stand by what I said in my first post.
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I will agree with Den that maybe some herpers would find breeding these wild caught animals a challenging experience, and i don't disagree that certain people with considerable experience be given the opportunity to work with these animals. But i see them generally available to any novice who applies for a license.
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Even a novice should have no difficulty with any reptile we supply as our reptiles don’t get sold to any one unless they are doing well in captivity in the first place.
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I see this as an unnecessary practice and i can only imagine your underlying motive here is to bolster your business interests.
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Of course one of our motives is to make money, that fact has never been hidden.
I won’t however compromise the truth to paint a picture that suits my a gender though, this I can promise you.
Cheers Dave
Can I respectfully suggest we may need something more rigorous as an environmental impact study?
