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The Reptile Guy is out of business.

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Jason W

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The plight of The Reptile Guy Mike Hopcraft is no secret. He made world headlines when he moved an Alligator and swiftly was charged for it but now that is the least of the reptile worlds worries. Unfortunately do to government regulations Mike is forced to go out of business and will no longer be providing his awesome service to the community. Unfortunately it is not legal for Mike to sell the reptiles at his shelter and equally as unfortunate he can no longer afford the rend on the building. He has been working with Zoos trying to find homes for the animals but it is not an easy task. DRN would like to reach out to the viewers and visitor of this website and ask if you could spare some change. If so go check out Mikes website below and make a donation.

The Reptile Guy

Get up close and personal with reptiles.

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Jason W

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Saturday, March 5, 2011 from 2:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M. at the EEC, 190 Lord Stirling Road, Basking Ridge, New Jersey. The Naturalists of the Somerset County Park Commission Environmental Education Center will welcome Rizzo Reptile Discovery and their remarkable animals Admission is free for the event.

Thailand’s biggest lizard poacher arrested.

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Jason W

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Thai police raided Boonlue Prasitsom’s warehouse finding more than 200 lizards in water filled tanks. It is believed that Boonlue was planning to smuggle the lizards to China. Officials believe Boonlue has been poaching lizards for more than ten years and is one of the countries biggest offenders. Last week Indonesian officials also busted a man carrying hundreds of reptiles in luggage.

Overgrown Crocodile for sale.

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Jason W

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Ms Sandstrom who dose reptile shows at schools, parties and other functions says her 2.6m long croc named Snappy will be sold as he is to large and dangerous for her to handle anymore. Snappy will be replaced by 2 smaller Crocodiles. I really have to speak out on this one. A pet is a pet for life not just until it gets to big and inconvenient for you. Stories like this are all to common in America and it really pisses me off to hear of this one. I mean what the heck did she expect the Salt Water Crocodile to stay small forever. I honestly think she should not be allowed to keep them anymore if they are so meaningless to her that she can just dump them when they get to big. Like it or not but I dont care, this is one of those stories that I really do not like to tell. I equally hate to give the website a plug but everyone should go there and tell her how much of an immature keeper she really is, check the link below.

Roaming Reptiles

Audubon Society seeks scholarship applicants

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Jason W

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The Bedford Audubon Society is seeking applicants for its 2011 Marty McGuire Scholarship. I past some of the grant has been used for reptile and amphibian research at Audubon’s summer camp in Vermont. The money, up to $1,000 can be used for course registration and materials or project related expenses. The application for the grant can be found online at

http://www.bedfordaudubon.org/documents/marty-mcguire_scholarship11.pdf. The deadline for application is April 15.

Mother and child held captive by man with snakes

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Jason W

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A Swedish woman and her child were held captive for hours by a man who said if they tried to leave he would unleash six green Asian pit vipers and two puff adders on them. Police were eventually able to slip in and free the woman and child and the man surrendered without incident. Animal expert Jonas Wahlstrom, director of the Skansen Aquarium collected the snakes and removed them. There were also 2 lizards found and police said the apartment had garbage all over it.

The reptile enthusiasts of Sweden need to stand up, we all need to stand up and work towards the common goal of keeping reptiles out of the hand of people like this. The vast majority of us are good honest people but there are a few who for some reason chose to do stupid things like this and put a bad light on us as a community.

I urge everyone to contact the local government in Stockholm with the contact info below and tell them a story of responsible reptile keeping.

Government Offices of Sweden Switchboard work +46 8 405 10 00
Address work Rosenbad 4
Postal address postal SE-103 33 Stockholm

Illegal lizard found

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Jason W

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An Alligator lizard which are illegal in Hawaii was found in the hallway of a Maui hotel. It is not known where the lizard came from or how it got there but it was turned over to the state Department of Agriculture.

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