hello animal keepers

biophile · #1 (**permalink**) 18-01-2008, 08:36 PM

Hi Everybody!

My name is Pawel, i'm Polish, living in UK since 3 years and i'm..... addicted to animals, but people and plants are very important in my life as well

i kept lots of different animals since i was 10 yo [now 31], with few years of break during my teenager period, have been also working in a ZOO as small animal keeper

i had and been breeding different animals, but since early '90 got tarantulas bug, ending with over 70 different species and almost 2000 specimens at some point [i was crazy i must admit, no personal life, as on top of that i had some snakes, lizards and few aquariums and was studying full time and working part time]
i also love snakes, scorpions, lizards, insects...... and an aquarium is a must be instead TV

when keeping animals, i always try to breed them, as keeping single specimen without giving it possibility to breed is against nature [just my opinion, not intending to flame], also it prevents [at least in theory] protect wild populations. i do not inbreed animals

since i left all animals in Poland, some sold, some in friends some at the ZOO, i was suffering for this 3 years, just have a TV [aquarium] with Geophagus surinamensis for 2 years, and finally i've decided to end this and get 'few' new 'kids'

i hope to meet some good peole here, as i must admit that with exotic animals and their keepers, UK is like a desert when comparing to Poland... honestly

well, thats for now

Best regards,
Pawel