Thoughts on Snakes Getting Passed Around

[jaleely]

My snakes are my pets, and my family. IF i do decide to breed my dumeril's, and my hognoses one day, they will only be sold and advertised to people whom i think will keep them and care for them as i would.
I do not want to breed my other snakes. I don't really see a reason to, since they are pretty normal, and there are tons of normals of all species out there on the market.
There are not too many hognose....and i really adore them and would love to have babies at least once...but if i did i would probably keep them *shrug*

The dumerils were the only snakes i bought with breeding in mind. I'd like to keep captive ones available to people so imports will not be as needed or as encouraged.

I realize the rest of my hoard is going to live out their lives with me. Another reason i had to calm down on getting so many.

[exwizard]

Originally Posted by jaleely

My snakes are my pets, and my family. IF i do decide to breed my dumeril's, and my hognoses one day, they will only be sold and advertised to people whom i think will keep them and care for them as i would.
I do not want to breed my other snakes. I don't really see a reason to, since they are pretty normal, and there are tons of normals of all species out there on the market.
There are not too many hognose....and i really adore them and would love to have babies at least once...but if i did i would probably keep them *shrug*

The dumerils were the only snakes i bought with breeding in mind. I'd like to keep captive ones available to people so imports will not be as needed or as encouraged.

I realize the rest of my hoard is going to live out their lives with me. Another reason i had to calm down on getting so many.

Yeah as I said, all mine are pets as well. As far as breeding Dums are concerned, one reason they are hard to come by is that there are very few breeders willing to put up with such a long gestation period. Their exportation out of Madagascar is also highly restricted and illegal. I do have breeding plans for a few of my Dums as well but that does not take away from their "pet" status to me. Theyve always been pets. If I produce babies, either Dums, Macklots, BRBs, Carpets or Corns, they will be sold because thats the nature of breeding but I will also be very careful where they go. The snakes I currently have however are here to stay and are not nor will they ever be available for sale.