Jay@PJCReptiles
"Quality Before Quantity"
Hi Everyone,
We were fortunate enough to be able to have a Black Throat Monitor "Zeus" in our care for a couple of weeks. A friend of ours knew someone who had this guy and was just going to give it to anyone. Monitors are illegal in Maine so before some ignorant moron who wanted it for a status symbol came along to take it or worse yet a Warden of the Maine Fish and Wildlife confiscated it and destroyed it we thought it would be best to rescue him before something bad happened to him. We had just the place for him, N.E.R.D. (New England Reptile Distributors). They breed different species of monitors and we knew they would have the facility for him. "Zeus" is a great guy and very impressive in person. He is 4 feet and well over 10 pounds eating rats, ground turkey and boiled eggs (shell and all). I wish we could have kept this guy as I was really getting attached to him but we knew it would be for the best to take him where he can get the care an animal like this demands. We made an appointment to take him to N.E.R.D. and see Bev. Bev is from England and she is in charge of all the monitors there. When we got there she came right down to see him and didn't hesitate to take him in. "Zeus" is now one of her personal "babies" (that's what she calls them). I have a couple of pictures of some of the animals she breeds and takes care of but I will post those on another thread in our personal forum. Back to the story, I really didn't want to get rid of him right up until the time she took him away but because they felt that we did the right thing by bringing him there and by how passionate I was about him they offered us a killer deal on something we can have in Maine, a 0.1 "Mocha" phase Argentine Boa. The deal was so good we would have been stupid to pass her up. A lot of the bigger Boa breeders tend to consider Argentines as fodder and bottom rung Boas but we think she is gorgeous. She is 6' of wonderful chocolate goodness. As soon as PJ saw her she fell in love. This girl is super docile and loves to be handled. I felt a little apprehensive about getting a deal on her just for what I thought was doing the right thing. I told them that I didn't do what I did in hopes of getting something in return but that I was just looking out for the well being of "Zeus". They insisted that the price was set because we did do the right thing by "Zeus". That made me feel pretty good so we bought her. Now "Zeus" is happy and safe where he belongs and PJ and I are happy with another Boa in our collection. Here are some pictures of them. Thanks for looking and we hope you like.
Jay & PJ
Moral: "If you look out for others, others will look out for you."
We were fortunate enough to be able to have a Black Throat Monitor "Zeus" in our care for a couple of weeks. A friend of ours knew someone who had this guy and was just going to give it to anyone. Monitors are illegal in Maine so before some ignorant moron who wanted it for a status symbol came along to take it or worse yet a Warden of the Maine Fish and Wildlife confiscated it and destroyed it we thought it would be best to rescue him before something bad happened to him. We had just the place for him, N.E.R.D. (New England Reptile Distributors). They breed different species of monitors and we knew they would have the facility for him. "Zeus" is a great guy and very impressive in person. He is 4 feet and well over 10 pounds eating rats, ground turkey and boiled eggs (shell and all). I wish we could have kept this guy as I was really getting attached to him but we knew it would be for the best to take him where he can get the care an animal like this demands. We made an appointment to take him to N.E.R.D. and see Bev. Bev is from England and she is in charge of all the monitors there. When we got there she came right down to see him and didn't hesitate to take him in. "Zeus" is now one of her personal "babies" (that's what she calls them). I have a couple of pictures of some of the animals she breeds and takes care of but I will post those on another thread in our personal forum. Back to the story, I really didn't want to get rid of him right up until the time she took him away but because they felt that we did the right thing by bringing him there and by how passionate I was about him they offered us a killer deal on something we can have in Maine, a 0.1 "Mocha" phase Argentine Boa. The deal was so good we would have been stupid to pass her up. A lot of the bigger Boa breeders tend to consider Argentines as fodder and bottom rung Boas but we think she is gorgeous. She is 6' of wonderful chocolate goodness. As soon as PJ saw her she fell in love. This girl is super docile and loves to be handled. I felt a little apprehensive about getting a deal on her just for what I thought was doing the right thing. I told them that I didn't do what I did in hopes of getting something in return but that I was just looking out for the well being of "Zeus". They insisted that the price was set because we did do the right thing by "Zeus". That made me feel pretty good so we bought her. Now "Zeus" is happy and safe where he belongs and PJ and I are happy with another Boa in our collection. Here are some pictures of them. Thanks for looking and we hope you like.
Jay & PJ
Moral: "If you look out for others, others will look out for you."
