Neurological issues poll

[CDN_Blood]

It's only those who are in it strictly for profit that I have issues with. I have to be fair to the others

EDIT: Well, actually they're not the only people I have issues with, lol. I have a problem with people who keep breeding snakes that are already so abundant that they're considered disposable now (e.g. Royal pythons). That particular market is so saturated that it's utterly ridiculous. The world needs another Royal python breeder about as much as Dolly Parton needs breast implants. I'm mean really...

[Terranaut]

I saw normals for $39 at my local reptile shop a few days ago. They should be free in a few months

[mykee]

Nope. Wholesalers will buy normals all day long for $___ from anyone willing to sell them. Which means they mark it up and sell them to pet stores. Normals will NEVER be free.

[Terranaut]

Originally Posted by mykee

Nope. Wholesalers will buy normals all day long for $___ from anyone willing to sell them. Which means they mark it up and sell them to pet stores. Normals will NEVER be free.

It was a joke.

If he pays 50% of his selling cost that's $20. That's dirt cheap. Hell even a normal corn snake is more than $39 at pet store. Market saturation of normals has cause the price to drop to near free levels. Best part is I love normals

[mykee]

I know for a fact that wholesalers are selling normals to pet shops for more than $40, which is before the pet store markup, so you should snatch them all up at that price.

[Rogue628]

Originally Posted by CDN_Blood

Just a couple of points on this...

Since my dog at my Superman outfit, I'm just a regular guy now, so I can't think of *all* the options for a poll that a body *might* want to choose and even if I could, you can't please everyone all the time - there will always be one that's just never satisfied, so I just focused on the options that I was curious about

I can't speak for Royal morphs, but I can say that not all Jags have issues. Mine is solid as a rock and so is her sibling that I know personally.

Finally, I don't know about anyone else, but I consider someone who calls themselves a 'breeder' a world apart from some private individual who happens to allow some of their snake to breed from time to time, so I take exception to the "it comes from a breeder, regardless of where you found it" thing, lol.

If someone calls themselves a breeder, yes, they're in it for the money plain and simple and that's why they're making a business out of it and there are *so* few exceptions to this that they're barely even perceptible - I've only ever met 2 commercial types that fall into the exception in all my years of herpin' and I give them the credit they deserve in one of my rants. Private individuals who allow their snakes to breed aren't as focused on profit, and a lot of them will actually give away offspring to the right people simply because they know they're going to get the best possible care with that person, so I personally can't group these two types of individuals into the same genre, but that's just me

I was only teasing you And I hope you put your dog in time out for eating your superman costume lol

I can see your point in you differentiating private individuals and breeders. As you've pointed out to me in the past, private individuals can be good to buy from, especially when purchasing an animal that needs human interaction from the beginning (like bloods). I can see both pros and cons of each. And I have definitely taken your previous advice to heart.

[Terranaut]

Again not into snakes for money. If you want I can send you the contact info so you can snatch them up?? I saw normals for sale for $50 at the last KW expo. I doubt highly the going price is anything more than that. And seeing as the mark up is usually 100% $25 wholesale sounds about right. I know it sucks for breeders but this happens when there are so many royal breeders in the same area. Even some of the morphs have dropped huge in the last 6 months. The last 2 expos I was at I saw hundreds of royals and a handful of other breeds. Reminds me of beardies.

[mykee]

How does that suck? That's awesome! $25 a head AND you get a free bin for the good stuff to go in?? Win/win!!!

[Jlassiter]

We used to get "normal" ball pythons for $12 each.......back then some were pastels, black backs and yellow bellies and no one knew that......lol