- Don’t buy a reptile (or any animal) on impulse.
- Don’t try to scare people with your reptiles, especially if you own snakes. Act responsibly.
-Don’t handle all herps too often; many, such as day geckos, are better as display animals than pets that you should handle.
- Don’t keep animals that require different habitat types in the same enclosure.
- Don’t keep animals illegally.
- Don’t neglect your pets. Give them the attention they deserve by performing routine maintenance chores, such as cleaning their enclosures, feeding the proper foods, etc. |
- Don’t overfeed your animals. This can be unhealthy for them.
- Don’t release pets into the wild.
- Don’t keep more herps than you can reasonably care for. Avoid “collector-itis” if keeping many reptiles will mean they are neglected.
- Don’t purchase sick animals thinking you will take them home and make them well. Start out with healthy animals.
- Don’t handle reptiles, especially snakes, too soon after they have fed. |