Dangles and the Beardens in NatGeo article!

Python passion: Snake owners tell their story - NatGeo News Watch

[Reyes81487]

Way to rock the shirt!!! Good article too

[The_Boaphile]

Great job Chris! By the way, your left latches are open...!

Really really great work you are doing!

Thank you very much Chris!

[zamora]

To the Beardens!


To Dangalang!


Thanks to all of you for a great article....Oh, the shirt looks good too!

[clsutt29]

Thats awesome. You guys are all doing great work.

[DIRTY SHOOTER]

Big props to Sam and his family. We appreciate all you do for us!!


Dangalang!! Look at you, rockin the RTB swag with the 421Ds in the background!! (Nice plastic Jeff!) Good stuff my brother!



Seriously, thanks for all you and the Beardens have done for our cause.

[bebowebb]

Major congrats and a big thanks to the Beardens and Chris for the awesome info for the article.

And can't forget about Willie Drye who took the time to write an article with some positive info.

[MLynch]

Way to go, Chris! Nice job! And Congrats to the Beardens, as well.

That's awesome.

[minguss]

[dangles]

Originally Posted by bterrill

and +2 points for sporting the rtb shirt!!

Originally Posted by ClayEnglish

GREAT looking shirt

Originally Posted by Pandorasdad

Big Ups for rocking the RTB shirt, Chris!

Originally Posted by Reyes81487

Way to rock the shirt!!!

Originally Posted by zamora

Oh, the shirt looks good too!

Originally Posted by DIRTY SHOOTER

Dangalang!! Look at you, rockin the RTB swag with the 421Ds in the background!!

the shirt was the FIRST thing i thought of when willie asked me to send him a picture! I JUST LOVE THOSE SHIRTS! i sent E an email with the link to be sure he got the chance to see his design in a national geo-frickin-graphic article!

Originally Posted by The_Boaphile

By the way, your left latches are open...!

you are an observant one, sir...

the top cage is currently unoccupied, and the resident of the bottom cage was posing around my neck at the time for her glamour shots

thank you everyone for the encouragement! it was really exciting to open up that page when it was first posted and see my ugly mug and my quotes!

i really was impressed with how willie and david (the editor) went about this. david has been open to our side all along, and when he asked me if i wanted to be in an article he was having one of his writers come up with (willie) i was confident it would be fair and unbiased, so i gladly accepted. there were a couple of other people i suggested he interview who didn't end up working out, but i'm happy with the final selection and how it turned out.

there were just a couple of misprints, minor as they were...

my malaysian python is not that big... when i told him about her, i said she COULD get that big. he must have mis-heard me.

also, our biggest boa is over 6 ft, not 5.

like i said, just peripherals that aren't critical to the core of the article. no big deal.

the day before the article was published, i spoke with willie and he made sure the quotes he had down for me were accurate. i clarified one of them for him... the part about them being easy to keep. he originally didn't have that in it. i figured that'd be good to include after i said they "weren't for everyone." i didn't want people to think they weren't for everyone because they are hard to keep, because THEY'RE NOT. they're not for everyone because not everyone likes them!

anyway, be sure to thank david braun and willie drye in the comments section below the article!

[Sam Bearden]

Wow I know it has been awhile. First I want to say thanks to Chris for the heads up that the call was coming. And for adding to the article.
Second how ever you take it good or bad I was working that day so I was unable to be a part of it, most likely a good thing as I am very passionate about my burms and may have said some dirty words. Chris I am sorry you had to hear some of them.
Anyway now onto the excuses on my absence..... I have none it is breeding season and I work. Those are not excuses I know everyone does it so I will TRY to work my way back over a little more often.