Compulsory Reptile Course

[Jonno from ERD]

The people that hold such courses will love this thread....Maybe a few other people will jump on the band wagon and offer other basic husbandry courses

Thanks for the plug

We have one coming up in February actually...and you can bring your kids for free! It's definitely affordable at $90 per adult, and you'll get a professionally bound booklet, as much lunch as you can eat and plenty of opportunities to ask questions and have a play with some snakes.

http://www.educationalreptiledisplays.com.au/KPRC.htm

 

[palmej]

Does anyone know if there any courses like Jonno's ERD ones in victoria?

 

[palmej]

lol i aplogise for hijacking the thread.. im just intrested

 

[palmej]

haha anyone?

 

[RedEyeGirl]

It would be great but I can't see it happening!

 

[Miss_Croft]

Guys – All a compulsory reptile keepers course would do is
Create more red tape to owning a pet reptile (Snake)
Further marginalize the keeping of scaly pets – more people will opt to keeping fury animals
Create a bigger market for reptiles without red tap (Read exotic corn snakes)


And as it was pointed out who would say is in the course? I could name a few people who would be interested in giving the course – but am band from mentioning their name on this forum.

I personally am for removing restrictions on more of the popular Australian animals such as some pythons and lizards.

A theory course on the other hand with a handbook might be a better approach. This will reduce people from breaking the law (like feeding live rodents, releasing their unwanted pets into the wild.