kameleons jvo
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Jurgen, you are not understanding what we are telling you. We have no doubts at all that you and the exporter are very knowledgeable and know how to ship/pack sensitive species of chameleons very well. It is not about that, its about the time of year HERE in the USA. It will be around Christmas time and New Years, the busiest time of year for packages to be sent by everyone all over the country, it is also one of the coldest times of the year. Many packages get lost for extended periods of time, or get delayed many days because of the overload of packages being sent through every shipping service in the country. So, it does not matter how well they are packed if they get lost or delayed. I dont understand the rush to ship them here either when we have already been patient enough waiting this long for them. I am beyond stressed over receiving this many chams on top of my own as it is, and the time they are being sent and the shipping carrier conditions here in the states just adds 1000% more stress for me and everyone else getting these chameleons.
It would be absolutely idiotic to rush and send them at the VERY worst time of year they could possibly be sent. Please understand what we are trying to tell youI dont want to sound rude at all, but we are very concerned over this. NOT because of you, but because of how shipping is this time of year over here. Its a recipe for disaster.
Paul,
I understand your concern but believe me i dident pick out this time of the year.
To give you some more info about our situation:its not my fault that CITES took 9 months to say ok everything fine you can have the animals .
In our quarantine room we have space for several hundreds of chams we have a full automatic sprinkling installation and we try to split up the animals as much as possible to avoid stress .
But off course we can not stock forever, in January we expect a shipment if Kenya,Tanzania And Cameroon so we can keep them lets say 2 weeks but than we need to make room.
Its also the farm that says i ship know and not next month(Africans smell money over the ocean)so we got to take them now so believe me its not all that simple we will do EVERYTHING to get these guys in a royal treatment to the tarmac of LA.
From there on its not longer in our hands you see.
I wish it was all so simple
