Aiie. Double-ess-tee-aitch-eye-ess-tee-oh.
It really is part of my really real name and one reason I use it is because fewer people misspell it (being an unfamiliar word, they go back and look at the spelling twice to check) than they spell my first name (which looks familiar - and most people throw extra S into that too).
I'd bet dollars to donuts he had to ASK for that information. I'd be further willing to bet that MOST of the knowledge that MOST of us have on this forum was gathered through hard research and asking questions...not by someone handing us a list of names, dates, and answers to questions we never asked.
Every book I pick up has more information than I was specifically looking for at the time. Isn't that information being given to me unasked-for?
Maybe it's because I've worked in libraries and often find that
the question being asked is not actually what the user needs to know. A new snake owner asking "Why does my new corn snake hide under his water bowl all the time" doesn't need the answer "because he's settling in." What they usually need is "Check your temperatures - it may be getting too hot for him on the warm side; he might just be settling in but it's best to check."
Alot of you seem to have mistakenly assumed that those of us who think "jungle corn" is accurate are unwilling to say anything else, and quite frankly...that's simply not the truth. You are only reading part of our posts...
But how much more real effort does it take to add those extra characters just to make SURE someone who might not ask the question for whatever reason does know?
I must relate an analogy of my own. Every show I've been to, there has been a breeder there who breeds lovely corn snakes. They're gorgeous, and I actually have stock from that breeder. But every show I notice there are no prices written on the labels of the boxes. To me that means one of two things - either that animal is not for sale or that if I have to ask, I can't afford it. In some cases, based on what I know of the market, the latter is almost certainly the truth... but I would have thought I could afford a caramel motley. How much extra time and effort does it cost to put a price on the box?
I have a bit of a phobia about talking to strangers, and I don't like "bothering" people who are busy if I might turn around and say "oh, right, I definitely can't afford that."
So I go to another table and check out their price-labelled snakes instead. If the information I'm looking for can't be found by reading the labels - whether that's price or species name - I am more likely to go to a competitor that does provide the information I want on the label. I'm not asking for full care sheets (although technically speaking over here those should be provided as per the Animal Welfare Act) ... but is a price and an accurate species name too much to ask? Jungle Corn X King £90. Makes a decent header line on a label far as I'm concerned!
Concerning the part highlighted in bold by me...
If that person had done their homework in the first place, the jungle corn could not have eaten the caramel corn simply because they would not have been in the same viv to begin with!
And plenty of people say "oh, well, it recommends not to do it but I've been co-housing animals for twenty years."
For every voice of "don't do it" there's someone else saying "But I do it and I've never had a problem." Heat mats without thermostats ("the pet shop said it would be ok"). Cohousing. Feeding live prey ("but it's natural") when the animal will eat prekilled.
If Valley Bulldog is the "industry standard" for a boxer/bulldog cross, then it is not a deceptive name.
You're having a website designed for you.
Would you like a Cyclic Image Slider or a Dynamic Image Slider?
How about a Mailing List or a E-mail Marketing System?
Those are industry-standard terms for three different things, but they're not common knowledge to someone just coming into the industry. I wouldn't expect you to know that a Cyclic Image Slider doesn't allow you to add new images to it - and that a Dynamic image slider is just as cyclic but allows user modifications with a back-office tool. We explain these things in writing BEFORE a customer signs off on the functionality so that they cannot come back later and say "But I didn't know I couldn't edit that!" (And yeah, we had that all the time - WE get it in the neck because the customer didn't understand the functionality list - until we started spelling it out clearly.)
Likewise I don't expect a newcomer to corn snakes to know that something labelled as a "jungle corn" is anything other than a corn snake... so I'll add the extra information in writing so they can't say they weren't told!
A Cinnamon corn is a hypo emoryiXcorn.
A Cinnamon royal is pure royal python.
How is someone who keeps royals to know that "cinnamon" isn't just a morph of corn snakes like it is in the species they're familiar with?
For kicks, I have one better than the "Roy Munson's Mule Caper". And it is a true story. And somewhat of an analogy to the inform/don't inform question.
My dad and my uncle went down to New Orleans to the Quarter back in the late 60's/early 70's to have a drink and do what unsupervised 20-something brothers do. (No SWMBO's around.) Well my uncle met this really hot chick, let's call her "Jungle Judy". Well the liquor flowed, and the hormones flowed. Things were electric. It was a Love Connection.
Well, far too late to UN-embarrass himself, my uncle discovered that Jungle Judy was neither from the jungle, nor a real Judy, if you know what I'm saying.
So....just exactly who should have told whom what...???
And I see that as the person who knew ("Jungle Judy") being just a touch mean-spirited towards the person who didn't. Disclosure should have happened before there was embarrassment to be had. Yeah, it might cost a sale or two to disclose that "this isn't a pure corn" from the outset in black and white - people who would have picked up the box, handed you the money and never asked questions no matter what morph it was. Those are probably the sales you WANT to lose.