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Posted by blud63 on January 12, 2003 at 12:01:23:
In Reply to: Mr. Cynic speaks up ................ posted by cwatbay on January 12, 2003 at 10:23:00:
:Perhaps one of the reasons I am commenting on the contents of this post ( not the post itself of course ), is because I know where Fairfield is and have been there many times. It is an ag town, even though it has grown into a really large suburban center.
:I read through the article and I looked for "responsible" care of the animals. I didn't see it.
:I looked for learning about proper husbandry, diet, care, heating and light - maybe not exactly in great detail - but anything that alluded to it. Nope, nothing there either.
:Now, maybe I an totally wrong, and its too early in the morning or I am just a cynic, but:
:The newsworthiness (sic ?) of the story is that in a predominantly farm area, these kids have reptiles as pets, instead of cows, chickens, goats, pigs, horses, sheep and so forth and so on. That's basically it.
:I guess the picture I am getting is that this is middle class America, in a suburb with kids that think reptiles are "cool" and I don't see responsible parent involvement anywhere.
:The fact that the kids are making statements that: they want all their friends to get 'em, "I want a really big iguana so I can take it on walks", the fact that the girl has the BD on her head as she zips down the road on her scooter-carries it around and smuggles it into places ..........
:To me it sounds like the latest kid "fad" in Fairfield. And I don't think this article is goign to help things.
:To me, on a certain level, it continues to propogate the situation of non-involved parent responsibility, parents letting kids buy whatever they want - because it's only "a lizard" and if it dies, "we'll just buy another one". It seems to me that this forum might get lucky enough to have a whole slew of newbie posts from Fairfield about "how come my ig died so soon" or "is a 10 gallon aquarium too big ?".
:Again, maybe I am totally off base; but this article just seems to support a whole bunch of bad situations that we have seen over and over again.
:CW
