Wild caught for pet shops, a tragedy?

[jaleely]

I do not, and will not buy wild caught. If you want an animal, pony up the money to buy a captive bred...if you can't afford that, you shouldn't be buying it anyway. Go rescue something...heck snakes are TEN dollars at the pound here in my county.
Buying wild caught to "expand your collection" is selfish. Taking the animal from the wild is selfish. If it's bred in captivity it doesn't know what it's missing.

Not to mention it seems like a lot of people that worry about expanding their collection are also guilty of giving up/giving away animals...and buying and selling on whim.
Talk about part of the problem.

Who cares, except other people like you,,,if you've purchased this new exciting species. Hell even i'm selfish for getting what i've gotten so far...i do work very hard to make a decent life for the animals i have, but you won't catch me getting off of my high horse and ever saying it's okay to import any species just so i can keep it in a cage somewhere to expand my collection *rolls eyes*

[UwabamiReptiles]

Originally Posted by jaleely

I do not, and will not buy wild caught. If you want an animal, pony up the money to buy a captive bred...if you can't afford that, you shouldn't be buying it anyway. Go rescue something...heck snakes are TEN dollars at the pound here in my county.
Buying wild caught to "expand your collection" is selfish. Taking the animal from the wild is selfish. If it's bred in captivity it doesn't know what it's missing.

Not to mention it seems like a lot of people that worry about expanding their collection are also guilty of giving up/giving away animals...and buying and selling on whim.
Talk about part of the problem.

Who cares, except other people like you,,,if you've purchased this new exciting species. Hell even I'm selfish for getting what I've gotten so far...i do work very hard to make a decent life for the animals i have, but you won't catch me getting off of my high horse and ever saying it's okay to import any species just so i can keep it in a cage somewhere to expand my collection *rolls eyes*

Don't see how wanting to keep different animals is selfish. I'll rephrase what I said earlier, I would look for cbb first and if nothing comes up then I would consider wc. Not my first choice to get wc. I don't have any wc in my collection because I anyways look for cb first. Thats common sense to me. I don't see how wanting something other than a boa, ball python, or corn snake makes me whatever.

I completely get your point though as I know most of your collection is from rescues. I totally respect that. Its great that you gave those animals a great home (I know you take excellent care of all your animals from everything I've read on here). I give excellent care to all my animals, always have, always will. Thats the most important thing when keeping any animal.

I don't agree with the mass importation of animals that 90% die every year. But my red tailed green rats are ch and I hope to breed them someday so people can get cbb. Does that make me selfish?

Wiz, after reading your inserts into my post, I agree with the regulation thing. I didn't completely think that through before I posted it, you're right about the last thing we need is the government getting more involved in our hobby. I was only thinking about the thousands and thousands of bush baby bps that are imported every year. I didn't think about anything else, just the animals.