The British Exotic Keepers Society

[Josh-sama]

[TWGarland]

I think the new logo is fantastic!

Good work man.

One thing i was going to say (and i know im probably being a pain here) is the dragon fly on the home page of the site. Is that an exotic dragonfly or something?

Cheers for all your doing Josh-sama

[Josh-sama]

Originally Posted by TWGarland

I think the new logo is fantastic!

Good work man.

One thing i was going to say (and i know im probably being a pain here) is the dragon fly on the home page of the site. Is that an exotic dragonfly or something?

Cheers for all your doing Josh-sama

Yeah. It is (As far as I know. I might be prooven wrong by someone who knows a lot more about dragonflies than me which is probably a lot of people LOL!)

Thanks for everyone and thier support.

I'm not the only guy behind the scenes running this. Joel (SNAKEWISPERA) is aswell. He'll be contacting the IHS, FBH and Practical Reptile Keeping about us and asking them the best means of doing things and working together!

[TWGarland]

Could you post a link to the site in this thread please

Thanks

[Josh-sama]

It's on the first post.


BEKS - Educating Britain About Everything Exotic

[JAM3S]

Whatever happened to the pro keepers lobby? run by rory i think.

The way i see it the most important aspect would be to raise positive awareness of reptile keeping. People of scared of what they dont understand. Every time something happens and there is bad press the anti's have no problem getting the public to believe their dribble without question and we sit and moan that they are ill informed. Caresheets and a website are all very well but if you are searching for the care sheet then i would guess you are already pro reptile keeping.

I wouldnt try and challenge the likes of Animal aid when the IHS and FBH have been fighting this corner for years. What i'd like to see is a collective that is actively working on putting a positive veiw of reptile keeping out to the public and maybe just maybe they might look into the different organizations for themselves and would be able to make an informed decision at least. People with public liability insurance could go out an do demonstrations at schools etc. People could activley campaign against decisions like the recent large boids on DWA suggestion,not just online but at events organized through the collective.

Just my 2pence worth. Good luck

[Josh-sama]

Originally Posted by JAM3S

Whatever happened to the pro keepers lobby? run by rory i think.

The way i see it the most important aspect would be to raise positive awareness of reptile keeping. People of scared of what they dont understand. Every time something happens and there is bad press the anti's have no problem getting the public to believe their dribble without question and we sit and moan that they are ill informed. Caresheets and a website are all very well but if you are searching for the care sheet then i would guess you are already pro reptile keeping.

I wouldnt try and challenge the likes of Animal aid when the IHS and FBH have been fighting this corner for years. What i'd like to see is a collective that is actively working on putting a positive veiw of reptile keeping out to the public and maybe just maybe they might look into the different organizations for themselves and would be able to make an informed decision at least. People with public liability insurance could go out an do demonstrations at schools etc. People could activley campaign against decisions like the recent large boids on DWA suggestion,not just online but at events organized through the collective.

Just my 2pence worth. Good luck

Our goals are to educate the public about reptiles. Not to fight against the Animal Aid, and APA. We'll stand up for our rights as reptile keepers, but we want to educate about reptiles as our main target.

[9Red]

I don't mean to be pendantic or rude, but would anyone mind if I were to elect myself as English Language Quality Control?

The general public are much more likely to take a website/organisation seriously if cases and articles are presented in grammatically correct English with correct spelling.

[SNAKEWISPERA]

Originally Posted by JAM3S

Whatever happened to the pro keepers lobby? run by rory i think.

The way i see it the most important aspect would be to raise positive awareness of reptile keeping. People of scared of what they dont understand. Every time something happens and there is bad press the anti's have no problem getting the public to believe their dribble without question and we sit and moan that they are ill informed. Caresheets and a website are all very well but if you are searching for the care sheet then i would guess you are already pro reptile keeping.

I wouldnt try and challenge the likes of Animal aid when the IHS and FBH have been fighting this corner for years. What i'd like to see is a collective that is actively working on putting a positive veiw of reptile keeping out to the public and maybe just maybe they might look into the different organizations for themselves and would be able to make an informed decision at least. People with public liability insurance could go out an do demonstrations at schools etc. People could activley campaign against decisions like the recent large boids on DWA suggestion,not just online but at events organized through the collective.

Just my 2pence worth. Good luck

Rory gave up, No one wanted to back him... Hardly no one supported him....
Ive been speaking to him about it

[TWGarland]

Originally Posted by JAM3S

The way i see it the most important aspect would be to raise positive awareness of reptile keeping. People of scared of what they dont understand. Every time something happens and there is bad press the anti's have no problem getting the public to believe their dribble without question and we sit and moan that they are ill informed. Caresheets and a website are all very well but if you are searching for the care sheet then i would guess you are already pro reptile keeping.

I'd agree with that definately.

Josh-sama i'm writing an alternative to the intro thing about BEKS, hope you guys don't mind, i'll post it here when i've finished. To see what you guys think.