Neighbors Say Dubuque Home Smells Like a Zoo

Why don't you people act like adults?
If you have that many reptiles in a house, they stink, period.
I work at a zoo and I know exactly what I am talking about, do you idiots?

Properly cared for and cleaned snake cages/racks do NOT stink....no matter how many you have. Perhaps you need to look into your cleaning procedures at the "zoo"?

And yeah, calling people idiots is real adult type behavior.

Originally Posted by Cat_72

Properly cared for and cleaned snake cages/racks do NOT stink....no matter how many you have. Perhaps you need to look into your cleaning procedures at the "zoo"?

And yeah, calling people idiots is real adult type behavior.

Originally Posted by Rattlesnake

Why don't you people act like adults?
If you have that many reptiles in a house, they stink, period.
I work at a zoo and I know exactly what I am talking about, do you idiots?

a person MIGHT think, that YOU think before you type. Do you ever stop and wonder if maybe somone else on a website works at a Zoo just like you, and can disprove pretty much anything youre saying right here, (unless of course their zoo is dirty too!)?

I agree with Cat, Maybe YOUR zoo should look up cleaning procedures... because as far as im concerned youre making it out to sound like a pretty nasty zoo if it smells that bad! and i DOUBT you have that many reptiles there.

What zoo do you work at by the by. Or will that not matter to any of us "Idiots".....

Originally Posted by barbie69

me too

I know Bill and Linda and a more caring couple of reptile keepers you'd be hard-pressed to find. I also own some awesome Florida Kingsnakes that they have produced.

What zoo do you work at? The Denver Zoo?

Please do tell.

Originally Posted by Rattlesnake

Why don't you people act like adults?
If you have that many reptiles in a house, they stink, period.
I work at a zoo and I know exactly what I am talking about, do you idiots?

To begin with, this statement is simply illogical. If you can keep one snake in a house with no odor, then there is no reason 350 couldn't be kept with no odor. The only question is will the significantly higher effort be put forth to do so. Snakes do not naturally create additional odor merely by being kept in larger numbers, and there is no basis for the statement that that many kept in one house has to stink.

There are several larger breeders in the hobby who maintain over 1000 snakes in their collections. Are you suggesting that the facilities of the Barkers, the Sutherlands, our webmaster here Rich, all stick to high heaven permeating their stench throughout the neighborhood?
If this was what was required to do this for a living, I seriously doubt many would want to spend 10 or 12 hours a day every day in that environment.

Have you even visited a well kept collection of that size? I have a few friends that have or have had numbers in that range and when you walk in their house or building you smelled nothing other than perhaps a faint scent of aspen bedding.

All your statement does is reflect poorly on whatever zoo you work for, since you are basically saying that their collection, however large it may be, smells like crap. That only suggests that their cleaning protocol is miserably inadequate, not that a large number of reptiles kept in one location smells horrible regardless of what you try to do about it.

The words "idiot" and "moron" are commonplace in the postings of "FZ" on this site. Apparently attempting to demean the opposition by means of name calling is a prime method of debate for this poster, for anyone who disagrees with his position, or commits an act he personally does not agree with is automatically branded an idiot. I suppose when intelligence is unable to be displayed, the only course of action available is to belittle the intelligence of the opponent.

Originally Posted by Clay Davenport

All your statement does is reflect poorly on whatever zoo you work for, since you are basically saying that their collection, however large it may be, smells like crap. That only suggests that their cleaning protocol is miserably inadequate, not that a large number of reptiles kept in one location smells horrible regardless of what you try to do about it.

In looking at the guy's post history, I kind of doubt he works at a zoo to begin with. The self-promoting refferences shift tense frequently; zoo he used to work at, zoo he works at, zoo he'd like to work at- making comments where he "imagines" working with king cobras, making comments that he does work with king cobras, making comments that nobody should work with king cobras...

What I think we have here is someone that thinks zookeeping is the end all be all of expertise that doesn't realize his conflicting and sometimes mutually exclusive statements will be questioned. In other words... a liar who didn't know the subject matter well enough to lie convincingly.

I went through a few more of his past posts and noticed the same sort of inconsistencies and drew the same conclusion.

What I think we have here is a bunch of morons that spend too much of their time on message boards.