Practical Reptile Keeping

LONDON - Lizards Maligned by McBride Comparison Lizards and reptiles (and their owners) throughout the UK are up in arms - after being compared to disgraced former government adviser Damian McBride by both Conservative and Labour MPs in yesterday's Public Affairs Committee meeting at the House of Commons.

LONDON - The search is on for Britain's oldest tortoise, after the demise in 2004 of Timmy*, who reached the grand old age of 160.

LONDON - Reptiles, Amphibians and Invertebrates top Britain's pet Population 8 million pet tortoises, turtles, lizards, snakes, frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, not to mention spiders and stick insects, have now become the UK's largest pet population - ahead of cats (7 million) and leaving dogs well behind (5 million).