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Posted by W von Papineäu on January 03, 2003 at 10:16:19:
Dear Ig-philes: The following is a letter to the UK paper that published "It shouldn't happen to a Reptile, previously posted and commented on previously in your forum
THE GUARDIAN (London, UK) 03 January 03 Letter: Lizard king
The RSPCA's Ian Gough (It shouldn't happen to a reptile, January 1) is a little behind the times. Green Iguanas ceased to be a part of the UK reptilian pet trade over a year ago. Whilst some larger specimens (like all pet species) will be mistreated and, for more innocent reasons, need re-homing, young animals do not enter the regular trade any more, by common consent of the specialist traders and retailers. My own organisation hasn't sold one for over five years.
The scare-mongering put out by the RSPCA that an epidemic of unwanted animals is just around the corner can only be expected from an organisation which tried throughout 2002 to influence the UK government and then at European level with a costly glossy report on the subject that was binned by CITES (Europe) and Defra.
The RSPCA's stock response in routinely refusing to help people with exotics is that "they shouldn't keep them in the first place". Rather a high-handed attitude from an organisation that's managed to set up one exotics inspector for the whole of London.
Simon King
King's Reptile World
