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Letting Go of Your Babies
So you raise your snakes to adulthood. You successfully breed them, carefully incubate the eggs and lovingly coax your babies to eat and thrive until they're ready to sell. Then you have to pack your little ones into a shipping box and send them off to unknown fates. Some (hopefully most) will be loved and well cared for. Some will not. You don't know.
How do you steel yourself for this? What do you tell yourself as you pack up a little snake whose existence you are responsible for? Do you ever refuse to sell to someone if you believe that they will not properly care for one of your animals? How do you handle that?
This is the one part of breeding that I'm really not going to like. Of course I have to sell them and let them go, or I'd be overrun and not be able to fund the hobby. But handing those boxes over to FedEx is going to be tough!
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0.1 Hog Island Boa, 0.1 Woma Python, 2.3 Ball Pythons, 1.1 Stimson's Pythons, 1.1 Western Hognoses, 4.6 Corns, 1.1 Mexican Milks, 2.2 Black Milks, 1.1 CA Kings, 1.1 CA Red-Sided Garters, 2.3 Trans-Pecos Rats, 2.2 Russian Rats, 1.0 Olive House Snake
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