It could help to post this on the myspace, facebook forums etc...


Phil

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I've signed it
NObody is getting my reps off me and never will, my tokay would kill them anyway.

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come on and sign this is our hobby well our love come on everyone we all need to sign this

Is Sixty Seconds too much?

To ask of a fellow keeper?

Whilst your hobbies are not in immediate danger of being lost, 2008 does signify the year of which many consultations and new legislation is being pressed to being passed that will affect the way you keep your animals now or seriously affect the way you keep them in the future.

Signing this petition is a display of strength and power of our voice. It is not a political statement.

Your politics may be different to mine, our passions for our animals will be the same. We do believe that if the husbandry for our animals is 100% then why should anyone oppose us in the keeping of the species?

But we now need to show the government who in turn will display it to the opposition that we are a community of specialist captive care keepers for exotics and that we are within our rights to maintain animals within our collections.

We need your help, we need your support, please sign at least one of the petitions if not both.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ExoticSpecies/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PrimateKeeping/

Many thanks for reading

Rory Matier

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Exotic Species = 330
Primate Keeping = 91

Combined 421

And yes, many of you will have gathered by now, that six of my fellow keepers and myself are now pm'ing you directly to ask for your support.

So l believe to date, X & Y have been completed, and l am working R, but Z, W, U, V, T & S are being tackled.

Many thanks

R

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I still am a little surprised that more people havnt signed it tbh, its not like it takes alot of effort, and too make people listen you need hell of alot of signatures.

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Signed Sealed and delivered. ( to the Goverment and other twonks who want to stop us keeping these critters. .)

Exotic Species so far 354 with Primate Keeping 93 = a combined total of 447.

Slowly we are working our way through the RFUK membership alphabet.

A few people have asked me, why the Primate Keeping petition is being combined with the Exotic Keeping one?

Well it is simple, primate owners are keepers also.

Now as l have said before, you may not own primates, may never wish to own or keep primates. You may feel that primates should not be kept in captivity. But you must consider this, these are a political hot potato at present.

You will have seen that we apply us much pressure if not more to the husbandry required for primate keepers, and why do we do this?

Because primates need to be kept correctly, but so do all the other animal species maintained by private keepers. And that also includes reptile keepers as well.

The need for improved husbandry, codes of practice is needed to ensure that the future of reptiles stays within reach of the exotics keeper.

So primates, they need the help from all the other keeping communities, they need your help, for they pledge their signatures to you , you need to pledge to them, as you need to do for all animals being kept in private ownership, in captive care.

If they [primates] do lose this battle, trust me when l say, reptiles will soon also be on the list awaiting opposition strong attack.

You may not agree with PKL politics, you may not like the TSKA brand, hell you may not even like me. But signing this petition is not to do with those issues, it is about YOU the private keeper of reptiles, mammals, primates and all the other sectors of the keeping community. It is about keeping your rights alive.

It is about making sure your voice is being heard, for if you are not heard then perhaps apathy is winning the day, perhaps way too many keepers are biting into the cake of acceptance?

Perhaps we should not keep any species at all? Maybe we are not worthy and indeed the opposing sides are correct.

I made this petition to strike against the opposition, which is the Government, who in turn can sway the dstances between our ability to keep or not.

The Government are not in favour of exotics being kept, as indeed the same feelings the RSPCA hold, and any number of the opposing anti factors, they want life easy, they want it to be politically correct ..... and exotic animals in their eyes are not pc, this makes them guilty of ignorance.

To the keepers who can not be bothered to sign, don't 'have the time' - dont agree with the 'politics' - does this lack of passionate concern not make you just as guilty?

R

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Come on people sign up im the laziest slob on the planet and ive managed it BUMP

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0.1.0 BCI
1.1.0 Ecuador BCI
1.0.0 C Cranwelli (albino)
0.0.1 Pyxicephalus Adspersus

My appologies to the readership if you thought l was 'spamming you' with the 60 seconds too much pm.

Could l ask therefore those who have signed the petition to possibly carry the following in their signature?

Many Thanks

Rory

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