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People often gravitate to exotic reptiles for the wrong reasons, in her opinion. The care instruction they had gotten were not accurate.” By the time she got to me, she had metabolic bone disease and no tail because a dog had eaten it. They just weren’t given all the information they needed. I feel bad because the people who got her and raised her loved her. “I have an iguana named Darwin,” says Coleman. Most lizards are not cuddly, and a large one can break a bone with its tail if its in a bad mood. Turtles can easily burrow through a wall or under a fence. Ball pythons, contrary to popular belief, should not live in a 20-gallon tank for the rest of their lives. Some of the main problems Coleman says buyers should be aware of include the ultimate size of the reptile, its behavior, and the capacity of a home. You’d have to micromanage it to stop it completely, and no one has that time. There’s always going to be people who skirt the rules.
If I take my animals to PetSmart to be adopted out, they have an application process. “I know some amazing sellers that do due diligence. “Someone at the desk should have asked ‘what are your plans? What are you working with?’,” she says. A law governing the trade at shows would be extremely difficult to enforce and require a massive government bureaucracy to oversee, but she does wish that the shows themselves would make an effort to have vendors further question buyers before completing sales. She thinks it’s a good and necessary thing that brings joy to many people. They’ll just hand you six feet of rage with no question about how you’re going to care for them.”Ĭoleman is quick to remark that she is not anti-expo, anti-breeding, or anti-the reptile trade. Some vendors have a vetting process, but some don’t. “People will try to keep a giant tortoise in their studio apartment and then not know what to do when it gets to 100 pounds and starts destroying their toilet. “You can get a Nile monitor that is going to be seven-feet long for $50 and no one asks if you have the set-up for it,” she says. Many of her animals come from homes where the people truly loved their animals, but they simply weren’t adequately prepared at the point of sale.
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She’s been in the business of housing stray animals since 2012 but switched to reptiles full-time after picking up a Savannah monitor named Pearl from owners in Houston who couldn’t handle her when she became full grown. “In the last eight months, I got three stray iguanas from Houston, and I’m 90 miles from the city.”Ĭoleman is a brash and dynamic personality who has built an impressive Facebook following thanks to her collection of colorful rescues. “At least 50 percent of the rescues I get come from purchases like these,” says Jessica Coleman, founder of Lumpy Lizard Reptile, Poultry, and Exotics Rescue in Edna, Texas. Reptilian Nation Expo, Repticon Houston, and the Houston Exotic Reptile and Pet Show are all great places for reptile enthusiasts to find new and interesting house pets, but a lack of oversight and caution leads many of them to end up either abandoned or escaped. Within one month alone, Houston will have three massive conventions dedicated to selling reptiles. other features other features reptile & amphibian glossary clubs,societies, & organizations zoos & aquariums biographies more features.Jessica Coleman, of Lumpy Lizard Reptile, Poultry, and Exotics Rescue, with Pearl, a Savannah monitor and her first reptile rescue.
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