I just want to add a note for people in the reptile industry, the aversion to using veterinarians. I am a firm believer in providing good veterinary care for all of your areas. And I'm glad you all have those resources in Canada! But here in the states, ESPECIALLY the midwest, vets who claim to be exotic specialists are few and far between and sadly, I have yet to find one who even has basic husbandry knowledge after visiting 6 of these vets all over Missouri and Kansas. I was scolded for not feeding my chuckwalla pinkie mice (they are herbivores after their juvenile stage) by one and quoted $1,700 for any basic diagnostics on him. I just wanted to open people's eyes on the actual resources some of us have available. I believe it's better on the coasts like California and Florida/Georgia, but please don't look down on people for expecting these ridiculous things from veterinarians when, in reality, a lot of us are trying to provide the best we can with this as our reality.
@Reptiliatus Interestingly but also logically, the ideal environment that you describe for Uroplatus geckos I immediately recognized as preferred for many orchid species. Orchids don’t really like to be in any kind of overly wet substrate or lacking ventilation enough that their roots are constantly wet. They end up rotting. Madagascar has the most diverse orchid flora in the world and over 1,000 species. I’m sure there’s an amazing Venn diagram here but, alas, I have no personal interest in Uroplatus, just in orchids. 😊
I found this podcast a few weeks ago and loved it - you are obviously working to improve the quality of life of our pet reptiles and amphibians. I've been working my way through the backlog and here I see myself! Sincere thanks to both Animals at Home and Reptiliatus for the mention and for bettering the hobby.
Haha oh hey Dr. Brown! I hope you didn't mind that I shared your Instagram account on screen. Thanks for all the work you do, I really enjoy the videos you have filmed for Dayyan!
Dayyan is awesome in his interactions with his animals. You can tell he's friends with everyone in his care! The kind of keeper and breeder we need more of. Love it!
DUDE the conversation at the end that you guys had about why you make the content you make was so inspirational! Especially what Dayyan was saying about his older videos. Great episode! I loved the extra footage (especially of feeding).
Thank you for listening to the podcast, I completely agree, you can tell Dayyan is incredibly passionate about both his animals and educating his listeners. It’s so refreshing to see
@@AnimalsatHomePodcast definitely he’s one of the best and always look forward to his videos or what he’s doing next and the amount of knowledge is amazing. He’s helped me with my croc skinks and now I get to see them and eat off tongs I always recommend his channel to my friends and people looking for advice if I don’t know the answer myself🦖🐍🦎
I was waiting for this specific interview. I watched it sometime later after it came on the channel, because I didn’t have as much time then, but it was very thorough and enjoyable. Reptiliatus is one of the best keepers on RUclips. I am following his channel for a long time. He has a very healthy attitude to animal keeping, he respects his animals and inspires many people.
Welcome! Thanks for dropping in, hope you enjoyed this episode. There’s enough episodes published at this point to get you through a lot of Viv cleaning 😂
Another excellent interview Dillon! I use to breed mountain horned dragons and collard lizards both of which are mostly in the trade as wild caught and considered by distributors as "cheap lizards." They make excellent pets when healthy and socialized and thats why I wanted to see more of an effort in captive breeding. I was considering starting a collard lizard project again but the problem is now I'm noticing alot more people producing them and they are selling them for like $300 compared to wc specimens that go for $25-$50. Back when I was working with them another well know guy sold his cbb for $80 and that makes sense. Being a hobby i wouldn't want to jack prices up to what they are now but I also wouldn't want to undercut people who are super into these projects either. On another note you guys briefly mentioned FB flagging. I stopped taking in beardies because marketplace kept taking down my ads for rehoming them. Saying you can't sell animals and its against guidelines. I literally wrote "free" all over the ads. Its a shame because so many people neglect them and give them away, so I take them in, nurse them to good health, then when ready I rehome them. When I make ads that say free, clean fecal test, and my only ask is that when inquiring you must show me a pic of an enclosure ready to put the animal in its amazing how many people show interest and want the animal. Marketplace being everyone's first go to spot to look for things makes it a perfect platform for adoption but the algorithm stops it from being possible.
Thank you for listening, glad you enjoyed the episode! And yeah, the algorithm makes it very difficult. Maybe someone will create a classified website for us to use at some point in the future!
Came here randomly on an auto play, subbing to both of you after this one. Great content. Love this energy and the spread of good thoughtfulness and knowledge in animal keeping! Keep up the good work!
Hell yea Reptiliatus is awesome I’ve been watching him for long time now and love his videos and how passionate he is about the hobby. I’ve got a couple pairs of Savannah monitors and my whole goal with them is breeding them to try and stop the wild collection of them. There my favorite monitor species and I’ve finally became one of the few to successfully breed them and get eggs intentionally and now have 85 eggs in my incubator right now and 1st clutch will be hatching soon and it’s only taken over 20 years of working with this species and definitely learned a lot and still continue to learn from these amazing monitors. But on another note it’s crazy we have the same childhood loving dinosaurs 🦖 and reptiles and so greatfull to have such a supportive family 🙏🏼 . He’s definitely a great figure in the reptile hobby and it’s definitely addictive breeding reptiles but like you said it’s important to breed reptiles that are mainly wild caught so are wild animals can stay wild 🤘🏻
Thank you for listening to the episode, Dayyan is an awesome role model for the hobby! Congratulations on your savannah monitor eggs, good luck with them! Sounds like you have an excellent plan
@@AnimalsatHomePodcast yea just planning as much as possible now don’t wanna be overwhelmed when they start hatching and it’s definitely been hard trying to find advice on setting the babies up and all but I’ve been keeping reptiles for over 30 years now just never had a bunch of babies all at once. If you know anyone I might be able to get some advice from I’d greatly appreciate it most people I’ve asked don’t know or don’t get back to me
@@pumpkinchow I'll do some brainstorming to see if I can think of anyone! I would try and find some monitor breeders on Instagram, they might be more likely to get back to you.
@@AnimalsatHomePodcast thank you I definitely appreciate it a lot I haven’t gotten many useful responses on RUclips at least. I’ll definitely try Instagram and thank you again
For those who are watching this a year or more later, there's a company in the US that sells that cork insulation for under $10 a sheet. Name of store is Grainger. I found it online.
Omg I've seen the chinese crocodile lizards for €800/pair in a store in the netherlands They looked quite healthy but I found them quite expensive I didn't know they were special and rare untill I did a google search while looking at them in the store but I was very aware that I wasn't yet experienced enough and having just been made aware of their existence, I didn't know nearly enough to keep them If I had known that a (tegu and black dragon) breeder I know, who also has experience with caiman lizards and sailfin dragons, had been looking for them for years already I'd've contacted them without a doubt Who knows where those lizards are now I really love what Dayyan is doing. The way that he does things is very inspirational and really motivates me (and I hope many others) to think of things differently. Another great podcast Thank you for your amazing content!
Good stuff! Those Red-eyed Croc Skinks! Owww! I am not a legged reptile lover, but those are so adorable and interesting! If I keep watching your casts, I just know somehow I'm going to end up with a gigantic water monitor, wondering what the heck happened LOL
This was fantastic! Thanks so much! It's funny, at 11 yrs, I had a terrarium with 2 Anoles and a couple tiny painted turtles, about silver dollar sized. I had very rich garden soil in it, a bowl lined wuth small, flat rocks, a log and some manzanita branches, a standard hood-light on top, over a mesh-screen top. That was over 60 years ago...before the words 'scaping an enclosure' were coined! At 13, I had over a dozen tropical fish tanks & raised Corydoras, Betas, Angelfish, etc. At 19, I married a guy who kept wild-caught (we didn't know better) tarantulas, scorpions, kangaroo mice and shrews, as well as kingsnakes, rattlesnakes, ringnecked and long-nosed snakes, and several other Colubrids and a good sized Rosy Boa. Oh, and a tortoise we picked up in the Mojave Desert. Sadly, after all that, the only pets I have are a couple littermate sisters from a Pekingese/Min.Poodle cross and a Shih Tzu. I call them 'PekaPooTzus'. No reptiles, amphibians, fish, invertebrates, or isopods. So I live vicariously through the wonderful Vlogs of Dayyon and a few others. And now I've found yours! Thanks for a GREAT last hour!!!
Do you mean share the RUclips channel to Instagram? Instagram does not make that very easy… The only real way to add a link on Instagram will be by putting it in your bio. For whatever reason Facebook and RUclips do not play well together 😂
Definitely changing the language of the conversation makes a huge difference. People tend to think we remove and endanger the species when in actuality if they needed to replace certain species than they’ve already got breeders world wide.
Exotic is definitely overused. For example, I find it hard to call Uromastyx “exotic” knowing that they’re collected for food by people in their native range.
I think Dion's approach is exactly what is needed in the industry as we move forward. I was trying alot of this during the early 90s-mid 90s but unfortunately found alot of people only concerned with the cash end of breeding and not establishing a captive population of gene pool. Alot of backstabbing and not alot of willingness to share information. I was very fortunate to meet n speak with some great pioneers in my opinion. Bob Mailloux Sandfire Dragon Ranch, Philippe Vos Joli, Trooper Walsh of Dallas Zoo, Mark Shea, as well as Kevin McCurly at Nerd ( Great guy always willing to help. But to many people only cared about how much the next unproven ball python morph may sell for. For every Brian Barczyk and Kevin or Ron St. Pierre, I would find 3 greedy, egomaniacs who only wanted to make fast cash. Totally discouraged me and by '01, I gave up on my passion unfortunately. I'm glad to see the positive changes in the industry as of recently.
Im planning on breeding bullsnakes in my area you dont see as much as you used to and the mice are going unchecked and everyone is having issues with feild mice ive baught the permits just waiting on what they say cant wait!!!
Dayyan!!! So intelligent and wholesome!!! Good point about the word “exotic” also, not all specialty pets ARE exotic, plus those being captive bred, they could be endemic in your ecosystem, therefore, to me, not exotic
So I want to breed myself viper boas there isn't many In the pet trade I have gotten myself a captive bred female but maybe after hearing what u said I should get myself a wild caught male if possible I just dont want to have an agro defensive snake in with my domesticated one
Good luck with the breeding project! My guess is that any aggression you see in a while Kutnick well almost only be directed towards you and not the other snake
@@AnimalsatHomePodcast ok good thats all I care about i paid 650 for her an shes now my new baby an she was pissy the first 2 weeks with me an has mellowed so much
I really enjoy hearing you speak. The reptile/exotic animal community is very bi-polar. There are the beautiful souls that are truly the only reason some species are still alive, then there are the gross arrogant keeper's that are very ego driven. I enjoy just listening to Dion for sure... 😶🤭😍
in traditional medicine locals eat these chinese crocodile lizards because thet believe them to be a cure for insomnia, i assume thats related to their slow and restful nature.
I feel with frogs live foliage is better. Me personally i think the fake foliage can poke them in the eye or ear drum. Thats just me putting myself in theyre shoes .
I love this discussion of terminology. Looking at this diction, I think another reason "exotic" is slightly problematic is due to the western association of the word exotic with the non-western world. It has a pretty racist history of "othering" and objectifying/fetishizing cultures that do not fit the white, western standards. Although we can't be "racist" against animals, it's interesting to note that when we think of the word "exotic", those same associations still hold: we think of exotic animals as animals from non-western countries, and it ties in that sense of mystical lands elsewhere (again that feeling of "other"). This could be part of why so many people in the US find garter snakes, bull snakes, and other native species to be boring. Are these exotic species or not? With the history of the word, it is hard to determine. However, all reptiles from all areas of the world can be grouped as "specialty" species, thus disregarding our western-centric viewpoint. Hopefully, this made sense, I'm done with my college general education classes so haven't done proper word analysis for a year or so but it's always interesting to take a look at. I'm sure someone with a better understanding of anthropology could do an excellent analysis on this topic, I might have to ask my roommate about it.
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I just want to add a note for people in the reptile industry, the aversion to using veterinarians. I am a firm believer in providing good veterinary care for all of your areas. And I'm glad you all have those resources in Canada! But here in the states, ESPECIALLY the midwest, vets who claim to be exotic specialists are few and far between and sadly, I have yet to find one who even has basic husbandry knowledge after visiting 6 of these vets all over Missouri and Kansas. I was scolded for not feeding my chuckwalla pinkie mice (they are herbivores after their juvenile stage) by one and quoted $1,700 for any basic diagnostics on him.
I just wanted to open people's eyes on the actual resources some of us have available. I believe it's better on the coasts like California and Florida/Georgia, but please don't look down on people for expecting these ridiculous things from veterinarians when, in reality, a lot of us are trying to provide the best we can with this as our reality.
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Thanks so much for having me on the show Dillon! I had such a good time discussing these topics!
Thank you for joining me, Dayyan! I really enjoyed our conversation 🙂
@Reptiliatus Interestingly but also logically, the ideal environment that you describe for Uroplatus geckos I immediately recognized as preferred for many orchid species. Orchids don’t really like to be in any kind of overly wet substrate or lacking ventilation enough that their roots are constantly wet. They end up rotting. Madagascar has the most diverse orchid flora in the world and over 1,000 species. I’m sure there’s an amazing Venn diagram here but, alas, I have no personal interest in Uroplatus, just in orchids. 😊
Absolutely fascinating discussion guys, Ty!
I found this podcast a few weeks ago and loved it - you are obviously working to improve the quality of life of our pet reptiles and amphibians.
I've been working my way through the backlog and here I see myself! Sincere thanks to both Animals at Home and Reptiliatus for the mention and for bettering the hobby.
Haha oh hey Dr. Brown! I hope you didn't mind that I shared your Instagram account on screen. Thanks for all the work you do, I really enjoy the videos you have filmed for Dayyan!
@@AnimalsatHomePodcast my pleasure!
Dayyan is awesome in his interactions with his animals. You can tell he's friends with everyone in his care! The kind of keeper and breeder we need more of. Love it!
Absolutely agree! Thank you for listening to the episode, Bob
DUDE the conversation at the end that you guys had about why you make the content you make was so inspirational! Especially what Dayyan was saying about his older videos. Great episode! I loved the extra footage (especially of feeding).
Yeah I really enjoyed that last section of the podcast as well! It wasn’t even planned! Glad you enjoyed the episode 😁
Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this interview!! 🤓
Thank you for listening, Stacey! I am so happy to hear that you enjoyed it
Absolutely LOVE Reptiliatus - you can tell he truly cares abt his animals and educating others to love them as he does! Great interview! 🙏🏼💖
Thank you for listening to the podcast, I completely agree, you can tell Dayyan is incredibly passionate about both his animals and educating his listeners. It’s so refreshing to see
Awesome Episode! I came across the Reptiliatus channel a few weeks back and truly enjoy the content. Amazing breeding projects 👏
Thanks, Rick! Yeah Dayyan is an incredible role model for the hobby. Can't wait to see his breeding projects develop!
@@AnimalsatHomePodcast definitely he’s one of the best and always look forward to his videos or what he’s doing next and the amount of knowledge is amazing. He’s helped me with my croc skinks and now I get to see them and eat off tongs I always recommend his channel to my friends and people looking for advice if I don’t know the answer myself🦖🐍🦎
I was waiting for this specific interview. I watched it sometime later after it came on the channel, because I didn’t have as much time then, but it was very thorough and enjoyable. Reptiliatus is one of the best keepers on RUclips. I am following his channel for a long time. He has a very healthy attitude to animal keeping, he respects his animals and inspires many people.
Yeah Dayyan is awesome! Glad you enjoyed this chat. I definitely plan on having him on again in the future, I love his outlook on reptile keeping
Imagine my joy, Animals at Home, and Reptiliatus! On the same podcast!! Thanks to both of you, for an outstanding episode.
Thank you Suzanne! 😁 so happy to hear you enjoyed our episode together!
I'm new round here but it was a very easy watch/listen to pop on while I cleaned a bunch of my vivs.
Welcome! Thanks for dropping in, hope you enjoyed this episode. There’s enough episodes published at this point to get you through a lot of Viv cleaning 😂
Great episode, as usual! His crocodile skink videos really made us consider them. I hope his breeding project really takes off.
Glad you enjoyed it! I’m hoping his breeding project pays off as well, it would be so great to establish that species!
Another excellent interview Dillon! I use to breed mountain horned dragons and collard lizards both of which are mostly in the trade as wild caught and considered by distributors as "cheap lizards." They make excellent pets when healthy and socialized and thats why I wanted to see more of an effort in captive breeding. I was considering starting a collard lizard project again but the problem is now I'm noticing alot more people producing them and they are selling them for like $300 compared to wc specimens that go for $25-$50. Back when I was working with them another well know guy sold his cbb for $80 and that makes sense. Being a hobby i wouldn't want to jack prices up to what they are now but I also wouldn't want to undercut people who are super into these projects either.
On another note you guys briefly mentioned FB flagging. I stopped taking in beardies because marketplace kept taking down my ads for rehoming them. Saying you can't sell animals and its against guidelines. I literally wrote "free" all over the ads. Its a shame because so many people neglect them and give them away, so I take them in, nurse them to good health, then when ready I rehome them. When I make ads that say free, clean fecal test, and my only ask is that when inquiring you must show me a pic of an enclosure ready to put the animal in its amazing how many people show interest and want the animal. Marketplace being everyone's first go to spot to look for things makes it a perfect platform for adoption but the algorithm stops it from being possible.
Thank you for listening, glad you enjoyed the episode! And yeah, the algorithm makes it very difficult. Maybe someone will create a classified website for us to use at some point in the future!
Came here randomly on an auto play, subbing to both of you after this one. Great content. Love this energy and the spread of good thoughtfulness and knowledge in animal keeping! Keep up the good work!
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for watching and thanks for the sub!
Thanks for a very entertaining episode, guys! Love the Canadian connection and your sincerity, Dayyan.
Thanks for watching 🙂
Hell yea Reptiliatus is awesome I’ve been watching him for long time now and love his videos and how passionate he is about the hobby. I’ve got a couple pairs of Savannah monitors and my whole goal with them is breeding them to try and stop the wild collection of them. There my favorite monitor species and I’ve finally became one of the few to successfully breed them and get eggs intentionally and now have 85 eggs in my incubator right now and 1st clutch will be hatching soon and it’s only taken over 20 years of working with this species and definitely learned a lot and still continue to learn from these amazing monitors. But on another note it’s crazy we have the same childhood loving dinosaurs 🦖 and reptiles and so greatfull to have such a supportive family 🙏🏼 . He’s definitely a great figure in the reptile hobby and it’s definitely addictive breeding reptiles but like you said it’s important to breed reptiles that are mainly wild caught so are wild animals can stay wild 🤘🏻
Thank you for listening to the episode, Dayyan is an awesome role model for the hobby! Congratulations on your savannah monitor eggs, good luck with them! Sounds like you have an excellent plan
@@AnimalsatHomePodcast yea just planning as much as possible now don’t wanna be overwhelmed when they start hatching and it’s definitely been hard trying to find advice on setting the babies up and all but I’ve been keeping reptiles for over 30 years now just never had a bunch of babies all at once. If you know anyone I might be able to get some advice from I’d greatly appreciate it most people I’ve asked don’t know or don’t get back to me
@@pumpkinchow I'll do some brainstorming to see if I can think of anyone! I would try and find some monitor breeders on Instagram, they might be more likely to get back to you.
@@AnimalsatHomePodcast thank you I definitely appreciate it a lot I haven’t gotten many useful responses on RUclips at least. I’ll definitely try Instagram and thank you again
For those who are watching this a year or more later, there's a company in the US that sells that cork insulation for under $10 a sheet. Name of store is Grainger. I found it online.
Awesome tip!
Omg I've seen the chinese crocodile lizards for €800/pair in a store in the netherlands
They looked quite healthy but I found them quite expensive
I didn't know they were special and rare untill I did a google search while looking at them in the store
but I was very aware that I wasn't yet experienced enough and having just been made aware of their existence, I didn't know nearly enough to keep them
If I had known that a (tegu and black dragon) breeder I know, who also has experience with caiman lizards and sailfin dragons, had been looking for them for years already I'd've contacted them without a doubt
Who knows where those lizards are now
I really love what Dayyan is doing. The way that he does things is very inspirational and really motivates me (and I hope many others) to think of things differently.
Another great podcast
Thank you for your amazing content!
Thanks for watching, Brandon!
Good stuff! Those Red-eyed Croc Skinks! Owww! I am not a legged reptile lover, but those are so adorable and interesting! If I keep watching your casts, I just know somehow I'm going to end up with a gigantic water monitor, wondering what the heck happened LOL
Thanks for listening to the episode! And haha 🤣 I know what you mean, after every episode I record I have to talk myself out of getting a new animal
This was fantastic! Thanks so much! It's funny, at 11 yrs, I had a terrarium with 2 Anoles and a couple tiny painted turtles, about silver dollar sized. I had very rich garden soil in it, a bowl lined wuth small, flat rocks, a log and some manzanita branches, a standard hood-light on top, over a mesh-screen top.
That was over 60 years ago...before the words 'scaping an enclosure' were coined!
At 13, I had over a dozen tropical fish tanks & raised Corydoras, Betas, Angelfish, etc. At 19, I married a guy who kept wild-caught (we didn't know better) tarantulas, scorpions, kangaroo mice and shrews, as well as kingsnakes, rattlesnakes, ringnecked and long-nosed snakes, and several other Colubrids and a good sized Rosy Boa. Oh, and a tortoise we picked up in the Mojave Desert.
Sadly, after all that, the only pets I have are a couple littermate sisters from a Pekingese/Min.Poodle cross and a Shih Tzu.
I call them 'PekaPooTzus'.
No reptiles, amphibians, fish, invertebrates, or isopods.
So I live vicariously through the wonderful Vlogs of Dayyon and a few others. And now I've found yours!
Thanks for a GREAT last hour!!!
Thank you so much for listening to the episode and sharing a bit of your story! ☺️
This is single handedly what every breeder of any species should watch, contemplate and reflect on their own set up for better husbandry!
I think as a breeder, you'll really enjoy this episode too: ruclips.net/video/-Ng5UDhhv50/видео.html
@@AnimalsatHomePodcast what’s the best way to share your profile to IG so others can go straight to it
Do you mean share the RUclips channel to Instagram? Instagram does not make that very easy… The only real way to add a link on Instagram will be by putting it in your bio. For whatever reason Facebook and RUclips do not play well together 😂
Definitely changing the language of the conversation makes a huge difference. People tend to think we remove and endanger the species when in actuality if they needed to replace certain species than they’ve already got breeders world wide.
Yep, exactly!
Exotic is definitely overused. For example, I find it hard to call Uromastyx “exotic” knowing that they’re collected for food by people in their native range.
May I suggest 'tank bois' as an additional alternative to exotics
😂🤣 definitely worth considering
I recently just got a pair of white lined .. my first pair
That’s awesome, congrats!
I think Dion's approach is exactly what is needed in the industry as we move forward. I was trying alot of this during the early 90s-mid 90s but unfortunately found alot of people only concerned with the cash end of breeding and not establishing a captive population of gene pool. Alot of backstabbing and not alot of willingness to share information. I was very fortunate to meet n speak with some great pioneers in my opinion. Bob Mailloux Sandfire Dragon Ranch, Philippe Vos Joli, Trooper Walsh of Dallas Zoo, Mark Shea, as well as Kevin McCurly at Nerd ( Great guy always willing to help. But to many people only cared about how much the next unproven ball python morph may sell for. For every Brian Barczyk and Kevin or Ron St. Pierre, I would find 3 greedy, egomaniacs who only wanted to make fast cash. Totally discouraged me and by '01, I gave up on my passion unfortunately. I'm glad to see the positive changes in the industry as of recently.
Im planning on breeding bullsnakes in my area you dont see as much as you used to and the mice are going unchecked and everyone is having issues with feild mice ive baught the permits just waiting on what they say cant wait!!!
Nice, hope it goes well!
Dayyan!!! So intelligent and wholesome!!!
Good point about the word “exotic” also, not all specialty pets ARE exotic, plus those being captive bred, they could be endemic in your ecosystem, therefore, to me, not exotic
Excellent point!
Nice video
Thank you for watching!
A big thumbs up for this one!
Thank you! 😁
I'm located in the Netherlands and I've payed around 250 euros for my Shinisaurus (if I remember it well). Absolute steal from a good breeder.
Wow! That’s an incredible price!
So I want to breed myself viper boas there isn't many In the pet trade I have gotten myself a captive bred female but maybe after hearing what u said I should get myself a wild caught male if possible I just dont want to have an agro defensive snake in with my domesticated one
Good luck with the breeding project! My guess is that any aggression you see in a while Kutnick well almost only be directed towards you and not the other snake
@@AnimalsatHomePodcast ok good thats all I care about i paid 650 for her an shes now my new baby an she was pissy the first 2 weeks with me an has mellowed so much
@@L.V.exoticpetswere you ever able to get a male?
I really enjoy hearing you speak. The reptile/exotic animal community is very bi-polar. There are the beautiful souls that are truly the only reason some species are still alive, then there are the gross arrogant keeper's that are very ego driven. I enjoy just listening to Dion for sure... 😶🤭😍
Thanks for watching, Rachel! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
in traditional medicine locals eat these chinese crocodile lizards because thet believe them to be a cure for insomnia, i assume thats related to their slow and restful nature.
Wow, that is so interesting! Who knew 😮
I watch Dion all the time whoo hoo
He’s awesome! 😁 I got to hang out with him in September, we had a great time
Can you tell me where you get salamanders
Depends on where you live. Ask your local reptile shop or herpetolgical society
Hello great video live podcast
Thank you for listening!
The baby is soooo cute!
🤣 Yes it is!
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I feel with frogs live foliage is better. Me personally i think the fake foliage can poke them in the eye or ear drum. Thats just me putting myself in theyre shoes .
Yeah that’s a great point!
Can you please tell me where you get those
I love this discussion of terminology. Looking at this diction, I think another reason "exotic" is slightly problematic is due to the western association of the word exotic with the non-western world. It has a pretty racist history of "othering" and objectifying/fetishizing cultures that do not fit the white, western standards. Although we can't be "racist" against animals, it's interesting to note that when we think of the word "exotic", those same associations still hold: we think of exotic animals as animals from non-western countries, and it ties in that sense of mystical lands elsewhere (again that feeling of "other"). This could be part of why so many people in the US find garter snakes, bull snakes, and other native species to be boring. Are these exotic species or not? With the history of the word, it is hard to determine. However, all reptiles from all areas of the world can be grouped as "specialty" species, thus disregarding our western-centric viewpoint. Hopefully, this made sense, I'm done with my college general education classes so haven't done proper word analysis for a year or so but it's always interesting to take a look at. I'm sure someone with a better understanding of anthropology could do an excellent analysis on this topic, I might have to ask my roommate about it.
Thanks for listening and adding to the discussion! It's definitely a very interesting topic, I think at some point I will cover this more thoroughly!
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Yes I'm definitely addicted. It's the pokemon syndrome for me as well as the satisfaction of bringing new snakes into the world
Yes, It can certainly be a challenge!
Amazing episode!!! Loved this so much
Thanks for listening, Quinn! I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed it