How could you call it anything but abusive?
Regards,
red-eye
At 11:07 AM 5/26/2005, you wrote:
Dana,
Certainly some good thoughts. Let's hear from the rest of you gexers!
Julie B.
Dana wrote:
Hi Julie -
I agree with you that this isn't cool at all - it seems to me to be a
case of animal cruelty. It also seems to me (from observing how people
think about reptiles) that most often people don't think so much about
reptiles being fearful, nor do they worry so much about animal cruelty
issues with reptiles - reptiles are often treated as an extreme "other"
animal in a way that people wouldn't think about or treat cats and dogs
and other mammals. Most people seem to be afraid of reptiles and think
they are aggressive rather than fearful. It is unfortunate that a TV
show can perpetuate people's fears and put animals in an extremely
stressful situation. It would be nice to make people more aware of this
as an issue, since a lot of people watching the show were probably
unaware of how afraid the geckos and the snakes probably were. A letter
signed on behalf of all GGA members to the network responsible (NBC?)
might have some effect. Any other thoughts?
Dana
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On May 26, 2005, at 1:12 AM, Julie Bergman wrote:
Mike and all,
I watched the episode tonight on my local UPN affiliate.. it was an all
female competition. This part was putting two gals in a smallish
plexiglass box with about 400 geckos and some pythons, maybe some other
snakes. The object was to move magnets up the wall into receptacles
with the reptiles mentioned having to be "moved" to accomplish the task.
One gal was bitten pretty good! The geckos were Gekko gekko (Tokay) and
possibly some Gekko ulikovskii (Golden Gecko). After seeing this I
don't see why geckos and snakes had to be mixed. Not cool.
Julie B.
Mike Martin wrote:
yea, i know what you're talking about. they might have done it again in a
newer episode, but im pretty sure i remember an older episode where they
had the people in with some tokay geckos, talking about how vicious they
were. what in the world? i've heard tokays can give a nasty bite, but
when they're packed in with a bunch of other animals and have some person
screaming and squirming, i seriously doubt they're gonna know what to
bite. i wonder if any of those contestants have ever heard the saying
"the animals are more afraid of you than you are of them"?
mike
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