In my opinion there are 2 reasons. First off Adults are shorter lived. For example if you buy an adult it will only be a pet for X amount of years but if you buy a baby you have that many more years to keep it. Another huge reason in my opinion is exactly that HUGE. I am sure there are a whole lot of people that buy these cute baby Boas un aware that they will reach 12 feet and 100lbs or larger. Its kind of like the New York Alligator stories. My father says he can vouch for Gaters in the sewers as when he lived in NY as a child they use to be able to mail order them. Once they got to big a lot of them would get flushed LOL I bet toilet plungers were a popular item in NY in the 50’s and 60’s LOL Anyway I think that’s the biggest reason is a lot of Normal every day Americans just are not able to take care of such a large snake for any length of time so once they decide to get rid of it they just want it gone. While I was at the pet store purchasing Shadow a person called with a 6 foot Boa that he wanted to sell for $100 including enclosure and all care items. I almost grabbed it as it came with everything and was still $50 cheaper than Shadow but I kind of fell for her so I took her instead.
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• Why are adult boas so cheap? - SnakeFreak, Tue Feb 28 10:55:02 2006
• RE: Why are adult boas so cheap? - jasonw, Tue Feb 28 11:14:10 2006
• Another reason... - PGoss, Tue Feb 28 11:28:49 2006
• RE: Another reason... - JasonReese, Tue Feb 28 14:35:57 2006
• Agree with others BUT ... - junglehabitats, Wed Mar 1 06:49:40 2006
• RE: Why are adult boas so cheap? - bcijoe, Tue Feb 28 15:20:07 2006
• correct Joe - junglehabitats, Wed Mar 1 06:54:10 2006
• RE: correct Joe - bcijoe, Wed Mar 1 09:57:23 2006
• thats quite a wishlist in your sig! np - carl3, Fri Mar 3 20:51:09 2006