July, 2007

Hey All -

First of all, I'd like to thank Al Wolfe and Bonnie Cromwell from Sonoma County Reptile Rescue, for speaking at our last general meeting (June). For those of you who missed the meeting, it was quite a treat. At one point, Al poured out 7-8 rattlesnakes out of bucket, onto the floor of our meeting hall. That got everyone's attention. These snakes represented about how many rattlesnakes that he collects on a given day (in the Summer).

Our general meeting this month (July) will be a "bring your favorite Herp night". I'm looking forward to the opportunity to mingle and talk about reptiles. I'm hoping that some of the old-timers come on down, as well as some newbies. I'll be bringing one of radiated tortoises, and a prehensile-tailed skink (my Baby, Jade).

I'd also like to thank everyone for the great turnout at Sulpher Creek. We had about a dozen BAARS members, and it was really great. Our next educational show is currently on Aug 18th, at the Palo Alto Jr Museum, and I'd like to encourage everyone to come.

On a personal front, I'm trying to down-size and match up animals so that I'm positioned to breed them. I don't want to have reptiles just for the sake of having them per se, but I want to be able to produce them, educate people, and lesson the demand for wild-caught animals.

1) I'm looking for one or two female prehensile tailed skinks, to start up a breeding colony. I currently have 3, including two confirmed males, so I have one excess male, which is about 2 years old. I've had my big male for about 16 years now, and really want him to produce some babies.
(2) My Vietnamese pond turtle (male) is excess, so I'm looking to place him in a breeding arrangement somewhere
(3) I also have 4 hatchling Indian Stars, cute little devils, which really don't fit into my immediate breeding plans. I would let a few of these go for a reasonable price.
(4) Finally, I would like to pick up some Burmese stars and Radiated tortoises, as well as additional Sulawesi Forest turtles.

Thanks,

Sincerely,

Scott Alexander

BAARS President, 2007
salexander@totality.com

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