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RE: she was refering to reptiles not dogs

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Posted by: rugbyman2000 at Tue Apr 5 06:44:59 2005  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rugbyman2000 ]  
   

if i adopt a snake from you how are you planning of stopping me from breeding it??? i could come in their saying everything you want me to say and argeeing with everything you have to say... but once i get that snake home.. .how do you plan on making sure i dont breed it???

The same way we would make sure you're not abusing your animal. Like many rescues, we reserve the right to make follow-up visits and if things are not in order we reserve the right to reclaim the animal. We also require references for adoptions, as well as adoption fees. Even to dishonest people it's usually not worth it to lie their whole way through the process and shell out the adoptoin fee when they could just pay a breeder for the same animal without any hassles.

And there are many reasons why we don't allow adoptions for breeding. The two main reasons being:

1. Conflict of interest. If someone is not planning to breed a reptile, usually they just want it for a pet. If they want to breed it, caring for a pet may not be their intent at all.

2. We are trying to slow down the problem, not speed it up. When it comes to overly common, overly abundant herps like iguanas, etc there are already too many out there that nobody wants. Breeding more only adds to the problem that we're trying to solve.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not against breeding any reptiles. I love the reptile hobby as much as the next guy and I know we're better of breeding herps in captivity rather than yanking them out of the wild. But as a rescue it's not our place to provide adoptions for breeding.
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