Poem about poor husbandry

[ZacharyLeesWife]

If you research my postings to those asking for help, I don't ridicule anyone. I gracefully exit the thread, when I see that the person is frustratingly dense. If people see how they are perceived, maybe they'll make a better effort to educate themselves. While I don't condone being abusive or cruel to people posting on the forums, these general statements don't attack anyone in particular and if it offends someone into browsing a caresheet or not buying their chameleon from a company that allows the perpetuation of misinformation and poor husbandry, then I hope the cry rivers over the poems. If you come here and haven't the faintest idea of the basic care of a veiled chameleon and you're chameleon is suffering for it, that's is a choice in the Information Age and being called out for it might make you a little butt hurt, but should also wake you up to your responsibility.

This. So much this.

 

[JacksJill]

Everyone who posted poems excluding myself has given countless hours of help to others out of the goodness of their hearts. Their devotion to chameleons and their keepers is well known.

 

[timw1]

The poem is not a bad idea, it is just an expression of ones frustration with the negative side of our hobby. Awareness and education is the key, PLEASE continue to educate the ignorant people who buy these innocent animals as pets.

 

[WAMBO]

No there isn't anything funny about someone's cham dying and that's not what this thread is about. It's about our frustration with the poor care many chams receive and how new members come here asking for help and then refuse to change their husbandry. It's about the idiotic things we see day in and day out and how sad it is that so many people purchase chams without any research into their care 1st.

Ditto! Well said. That is the intent.

 

[Remkon]

Folks, this has got to be a new low for the forum! There is nothing funny about the death of someone's chameleon, be it from Petco, private breeder, or wholesaler. In my experience, people who has lost a chameleon based on an impulse buy, inexperience, young, or old, feels just as much pain as you would if one of you were to loose your chams. This is because of the emotional attachment to the chams as family members. How would you feel if someone ridicule you for loosing your Veiled, Jackson's, Panther, or Parson's? As the saying goes, "sometimes Karma can be a real b*tch!"

This doesn't rhyme!

It's not making fun of the death of animals but more like making 'fun' of the same topic about the same issue that comes by here over and over again.

We see so many of the same cases if uninformed people posting about their chameleon (this forum has a search function...) .... Some of them are willing to take info, others don't... We try to help the majority of em, some are just beyond help...
It can become frustrating when you know a chameleon will end up dead because of someones stubbornness, ignorance or just plain stupidity... I'm a very active on these forums and try to share what I know with a lot of members, new and old...
Sometimes I have a feeling in my gut when I see topic #100 about the same issue, I don't even bother to open it and/or reply to it anymore because it will in some way influence my mood... people can do a search too right...?

Topics like these, even tho they seem grim have a (slightly dark) sense of humor and take some of the frustration away... Besides everything in these poems is just very true and people that feel offended by it either don't have a sense of humor or have probably done their cham wrong and were unwilling to learn.

It's ok to be inexperienced, we all been at one point and impulse purchases happen.
But in this day and age it's no excuse to not even know the bare basics of reptile husbandry! Internet is full of information and if you even spend one afternoon of reading and comparing care sheets you should at least have the basic understanding of keeping reptiles.

 

[CharlieCharmingo]

I bought a chameleon
And tried not to throw it.
I bought a chameleon
And really tried to show it,
How to be a dog or something like that.
I bought a chameleon
And oh sh;t
Now I own it.


(A poem about myself to myself to take some tension off myself. The old self. Not this self. This self can't be helped.)



-Uhm this is a joke. Just so everyone is clear. Like I get the point of the poems. To teach new owners a lesson. Dark humor and education etc. But Charlie charmingo is always going to be Switzerland....unless you attack Tony personally. Then unfortunately you may feel my wrath, cause him got little baby fingers and can't type so well.

 

[Remkon]

panthers are red, panthers are blue, panthers can be yellow and even white too...

I throw my cham up in the sky sometimes singing ehy yo, gotta let go!

 

[Michelle Maxwell]

, . , -n't . . , , .
Sorry. I had to.

Had to what

 

[acarrera]

If you research my postings to those asking for help, I don't ridicule anyone. I gracefully exit the thread, when I see that the person is frustratingly dense. If people see how they are perceived, maybe they'll make a better effort to educate themselves. While I don't condone being abusive or cruel to people posting on the forums, these general statements don't attack anyone in particular and if it offends someone into browsing a caresheet or not buying their chameleon from a company that allows the perpetuation of misinformation and poor husbandry, then I hope they cry rivers over the poems. If you come here and haven't the faintest idea of the basic care of a veiled chameleon and you're chameleon is suffering for it, that's is a choice in the Information Age and being called out for it might make you a little butt hurt, but should also wake you up to your responsibility.

Very well...as you were then

 

[Angelwolf]

Had to what

Be a grammar nazi.