While there are some (a tiny fraction) people that are in it for the love of the animals and reptiles bobby, I believe most are in it for the money. Most of the people here remind me of the people who work for KFC or slaughter houses; just looking to get their animal big, now, for profit. But you see the difference is that the people at KFC and slaughter houses aren't sitting around talking about how much they love their animals and the people on the outside looking in are not just sitting around waiting to make compliment them. Sadly, this is the environment here.

I can’t seem to count, within the last 4 years, how many people posted pictures of litters produced by young, pushed parents and the excuse was I just put them together to clean the cage? Anyone who has been here long enough has seen this situation happen at least 3 times. I apologize if it seems like I am coming off a bit aggressively but people act as if we have not learned that forcing boas into early reproduction decreases the animals life span. We have had people like Jeff Ronne tell us that ALL of his boas he forced into early reproduction died at a very early age, but we don’t listen. Instead we listen to the person yappin about how they have been in the hobby for numerous years yet the longest they have had a specific animal in their collection has been for no more than 5 years.

I’m not trying to sound like making money off your boas is not okay. I plan to breed my boas this year and I hope to make some money off the offspring but I’m at least happy to say that I gave me females 3.5 years to become ready.

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