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Subject: rule # 3 BE HONEST
Posted by Bourbon on September 13, 1998 at 01:48:52:

In Reply to: be nice to beginners! posted by ducky9 a.k.a buba on September 12, 1998 at 13:03:07:

3. Explain to them how to keep an
: iguana an tell them honestly that they grow to be 6 feet long and have complicated care
: plus can be very aggressive

I believe the post you are talking about is this one ::

I have alot of experience with exotic and domestic pets but most of mine are
how should we say, more ornamental. I want something that will really play around
alot. I don't want something that while bite or poop all over me. I am willing to
prepare special diets including live food because I have a colony of both mealworms are
crickets. I want a pet that is very fun to watch and has a personality. I also want a
pet that can be taken all over the place with or without a harness.

and you next to the last statement was this :

So I want a honest opinion for someone who knows what their
doing.

and my responses were this :::

Ducky9,
Most gliders will bite and some will bite so hard they break the skin draw blood and bite right to the
bone..Read the past archives.
and....
you said ". I don't want something that while bite or poop all over me." well guess what!!?? you may
not want a glider then, they poop and pee wherevere they are or whenever they can, many times right
on you, your arm, your shoulder, your back, your pocket ... well sounds like you don't want a glider. I
really feel more research is in order here..

based on what you did say, which is the ONLY thing we have to go on.. so we are safe from assuming
anything... the line in your post that I answered was this: " I don't want something that while bite or
poop all over me."
you said YOU DON'T WANT.. I answered your questions with facts.. That SOME will bite so hard to
break the skin, draw blood, and right to the bone. And that they do pee and poop on you. Those are
facts.. not sugar coated but real facts. now if I was to tell you well, they may not bite or they may not
pee on you, then when it happens you would be complaining that, that isn't the way you interpeted it.
that the odds were against it. I told you to read the back archives and that I believed more research
was in order. what exactly did you have problems with? If you now want to go back and change your
question so be it. but that is what you said..That is what i responded to. I am not going to sit here and
talk to you as if you were a child being afraid to hurt your feelings. I still find nothing wrong with my
response. I answered your question. With what YOU gave me to go on. We don't need your life story
to give you an answer, but it is like asking a mechanic where your fuel pump is on your car without
telling him what kind of car you have. I would answer that exact same post, the exact same way.

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