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Feb 16, 2010 |
Hello 2010! | RSS Feed |
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2010 is looking to be a terrific year. Spring is here. Trees are leafing up, people are buying pets and feeder sales are growing as normal for this time of year.
Welcome 2010!
Bearded dragons are laying eggs daily. Some are beginning to start hatching. Come by (buy!) and check out our new prices for starter kits. We are the best in the area. Nobody has the knowledge or the track record we do. No other reptile store within 20 miles has the long term reptile keeping, breeding and selling experience we do here. Between Mike and Scott there are well over 50 years combined experience. Of course our staff gets the benefit of this through our extensive training program. Nobody compares! Come let our stores and staff prove it!  OOPS! |
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Apr 30, 2009 |
HR 669 ON HOLD | RSS Feed |
POSTED BY SCOTT:The best I can figure is HR 669 is on 'hold'. Perhaps on hold forever. It is also possibly being re-worked, as there are rumours the anti-pet fascists are meeting with the author to re-word the bill for future sub-committee approval. No matter what, we have to all be alert to the prospects of having to fight this or another similar bill. On another note, we have launched shipreptiles.com. We are now (have been for over three years) exporting animals for small scale breeders who previously had ignored the overseas market. The reptile market worldwide is hot and we have the goods here in the USA! shipreptiles.com is the bridge between the overseas buyer and the smaller scale USA breeder. The fees are reasonable. Proof of this is the serious of 2-6 animal exports we have done recently! If it were too expensive, nobody would buy only six specimens. On 30 May, 2009 in Germany is the infamous "Hamm Show". This is Europe's largest reptile show. shipreptiles.com will be represented by me (Scott Solar) at this show. We will be both taking animals to the show and also bringing them home. The fee is $50 per specimen up to six specimens. Animals imported into Germany also have a 19% VAT. The maximum fee is $300 per BUYER. If your customer wants to have your animals delivered at the Hamm show Click here for more details. If you Americans have a breeder in Europe you wish to buy from the same fee applies (no VAT). The only additional fee is domestic shipping from Montclair, CA to your destination. That can be done on your account or will be quoted custom based upon the animal(s) in question.
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Apr 16, 2009 |
PLEASE HELP STOP HR669 | RSS Feed |
HR669 is a terrible piece of knee-jerk legislation that will outlaw all species of animals non-native to the USA. The portrayed concept is to stop "invasive species". This sounds charismatic. It is not. The REAL result of this bill is to end the WAR ON PETS. HSUS, PETA, apparently Nature Conservancy and others have long fought a war on pets, the people who keep them and the companies that derive their livelihood from them. They have fought for more restrictive laws, making pet ownership harder (even impossible) and more expensive. They have introduced legislation at every level in every state, no matter the cost, only to put an end to the practice of keeping pets.
From the little guppy, to your favorite guinea pig, to your neighbors beautiful Macaws, to every other animal not found naturally in the USA all species may be banned. That means banned from importation, selling, bartering, trading, gifting and BREEDING! Rare species such as Macaws owe their futures to captive breeding. This will all end if this bill passes. If this terrible legislation passes and you own an exotic pet (if you are reading this it is likely you do, 98 million Americans do) and you want to move to another state, you cannot take your pet with you. In fact you must kill it. It cannot be given away, traded, barted, sold... etc. It must be destroyed. Euthanized. And the animals' only crime was living in the USA. The future of many of the world's most endangered species rely upon the captive breeding efforts of the United States' most intelligent animal lovers. There efforts will become a crime and the species left to it's potential demise. The specimens in their care must not ever be bred again, and they must either be killed or allowed to die of old age. Imagine that for a moment. This is new legislation that requires the death or killing of endangered species without allowing them to reproduce! This has simply got to be stopped.
The only pet animals currently allowed by this bill are dogs, cats, goldfish and rabbits (but not koi, ferrets, hamsters or gerbils). Talk about INVASIVE SPECIES, feral house-cats kill more native US wildlife than all other species combined. Nonetheless, fluffy gets a pass. This bill does not do what it claims to do. Allowing a known invasive species, but outlawing countless non-invasive species DOES NOT STOP INVASIVE SPECIES. Please help us stop this bad legislation. Click on the links provided and make your input known.
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Jan 29, 2009 |
NEW THINGS ARE COMING! | RSS Feed |
Posted By Phil; So how is the New Year treating everyone? We all  NEW KITS AND SUPPLIES |
do hope everyone is doing well thus far. We are still working out the new plans we have for both stores. Also, there are a couple of new additions to our site that we are currently working on. Check out our supplies section. We are increasing the number of products we have to offer in this section of our website. This way, all of you browsing our site can take a look at what we have. We have listed some beginner kits and will continue to post more as time goes on. This will help you to plan ahead and begin making space for your new reptile companion or companions. Also remember that we're  CHECK OUT OUR BABY LEOPARD TORTOISES |
always here to answer any questions you may have about getting together a proper set up and helping you out as best as we can. By the way, while we can mail order the products, we are unable to ship glass reptile tanks. This means in store sales only.
I will be posting in our blog more frequently about any events that we will be having here at the store or that we will be supporting. Also about any news we feel you would like to know about. If there is something you'd like to hear, send us an email. We are also floating the idea of selling photo prints of reptiles that our staff has taken either here in the store or out in the fields during a herping trip. Also, included in this idea is  THESE SPOTTED PYTHONS LOOK AMAZING |
the sales of original artwork done by some of our staff members. If any of you think that photo prints and artwork prints would be a good idea tell us your thoughts.
That is it for the time being. I myself (Phil) need to go talk with everyone and see when they will have some spare time to work with me and get started with the 'Meet Our Staff' column. Until next time…
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Jan 06, 2009 |
2009 HERE WE COME! | RSS Feed |
POSTED BY PHIL Hello everyone. All of us here at ARC hope you all had a great New Year. Later this year we will  LOOK AT THIS HYPO HONDO |
celebrate our tenth anniversary of doing business. Even though 2008 was a bit rocky for all of us. We here have big plans for ARC. We all are thankful for our jobs. We will continue to give everyone the best quality animals and the outstanding service many of you have come to expect.
The state of California has enacted a new "pet store bill" that regulates the operations of pet stores in the state of California. Scott was involved in the composition of the bill. Most of it makes sense from an animal and a business standpoint. It essentially puts into code  GOTTA LOVE THE WAXY MONKEY FROGS |
what we have have believed for our entire existence. The perspective we have lived by is one of "reverance for life". Take good care of the animals and the customers and all else will come into place. So far, this has been our plan. We have stuck to it and it still works, even in a worldwide recession.
This weekend past was Los Angeles County's first Reptile Supershow at the Pomona Fairgrounds. Many vendors attended the show both old and new to the reptile industry. Over 150 booths filled building seven at the fairgrounds. It was surprising to see a lot more people attending the Reptile  A RAPTOR IN THE FIELD BEHIND OUR STORE |
Show than there was attending the Tattoo Expo in the building next door. This simply proves how many people out there have a strong passion for reptiles and the reptile community. We were happy to greet many of the show attendees into our stores. Many folks we haven't seen in a long time and many new faces. Thanks for stopping by.
During the second half of 2008 we (meaning me, Phil) worked hard keeping our site up to date with a good inventory of great quality animals. We will continue doing that and continue supplying all of you with a great selection of reptiles. As Scott promised in a previous post, early this year, we are going to put together the 'Meet Our Staff' portion of our site. Then you can all get a closer look at who we are here at Amazon Reptile Center. We're all going to tell you a bit about ourselves so that everyone can get to know our ARC family better so keep an eye open for that section of our site. It is coming very soon!
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