This page is dedicated to helping our
youth succeed academically by inspiring them to achieve and maintain good
grades by rewarding them with a Rosy Boa. With the support of parents,
(letting their children have reptiles) rewarding good students with a Rosy
Boa just seems so easy. Not only will it help the success of our children's
future, it will insure the future of Rosy Boa enthusiast. As mentioned on the
“Bio Page”, my parents were very supportive of my hobby and rewarded me with
reptile rewards when I brought home a good report card. Now days with tools
like email and the internet, we have the ability to not only educate others
about Rosy Boas, but inspire them to get educated using Rosy Boas. How cool
is that?
Ross in his snake room with a Rosy
The inspiration to establish this page
came from a aspiring young Rosy enthusiast by the
name of Ross Henshaw. Via email, Ross conveyed to
me that he and his father were going to upgrade his enclosures to the type of
enclosures that I use (glass terrarium with sliding screen top) and was
concerned about the glass not sitting directly on the heat source. I replied
that it would work just fine and candidly asked how he was doing in school,
and well the rest is history.
Below
is the actual email thread between me and Ross
From: Dee Hanshaw
[mailto:deehanshaw@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 6:07 PM To: Hartley, Jerry Subject: Terrariums
Hey Jerry this is
Ross. My Dad and I were thinking about upgrading our system a
bit. Is it ok for the terrarium to sit on the heat tape about 1/2
because of the wood. Or do you have to cut off the bottom so it sits
directly on the tape. Thanks, Ross.
"Hartley,
Jerry" <jhartley@amazon.com> wrote:
Mine are raised as well.
It will work just fine as is. How is school doing for you this year? Are you
making your dad proud? Keep up the good grades and I may hook you up
with a Rosy Reward. I'm gonna want to see a report
card though.
From:
Dee Hanshaw [mailto:deehanshaw@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 10:51 AM To: Hartley, Jerry Subject: RE: Terrariums
Jerry, thats awesome! I
would love to own a rosy produced by you. I will send you my report card for
sure (i will also send you my progress reports
along the way). My dad has told me he would support my rosy and mouse hobby
as long as I kept my grades up, but nothing motivates me as much as
your email. I check your forum everyday before school and after football
practice. Thank you so much. I cant wait for you to
respond. Thanks again, Ross!
Below is Ross’s progress report that his dad
scanned and sent to me the same day the email thread started
With the
help of Ross’s father Dee, I was able to monitor Ross’s progress via email.
This proved to keep Ross focused and driven. This even inspired Ross to make
a gift for me. I’m very proud to sport my “Rosy Room” sign in my collection.
Ross improved his grade to an A in a two week period. So as promised, I sent
Ross his “Rosy Reward”. At the time, the only baby Rosys
I had was a pair of heterozygous for albino Temecula’s (Limburg’s).
After Ross received the male, Ross’s father contacted me regarding getting
the female for Ross for Christmas. Soon Ross will be producing albinos of his
own. His collection continues to grow, and who knows, maybe one day he will
have more localities than me. I sure hope so.
Ross’s little male hetLimburg
My gift from Ross
Since I first published the idea of starting the “Rosy
Reward” program on the forum, I have received so many emails from my ever
growing Rosy family with questions on how they could help with the program. I
mean how cool is that? The more the merrier right? Just one more thing that
makes me love Rosy Boas even more. For those of you
that want to be involved, just shoot me an email. For those of you that are
involved, you rule. For those parents that want to be further involved in
your child’s success academically and support their reptile hobby, don’t
hesitate to contact me so we can reward your child with a “Rosy Reward”. It
does work.
