I cannot argue it at all, The same thing happens with Savannah monitors, Iguanas and on a smaller scale rain forest snakes from Asia.



And to make it even worse, many of the animals that do survive wind up in the hands of total creeps who allow them to suffer and die slowly.



Just this summer we seized a ball python from a crack house, his enclosure was sitting on top of a large stereo system, green water in the bowl, multiple sheds on the floor of the enclosure and feces from many months of not cleaning.



Even if we as professionals push as strongly as we can to insist on captive bred and born animals, there will always be someone looking for that $20 baby BP.



Many of the Africans involved are doing this for less than a dollar a snake. (sickening isn't it?)

Cain's rescue story


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Regards,

Wayne A. Harvey



1.0.0 Ball Python - Python regius "Cain" Rescued from a crack house

0.1.9 Eastern MilkSnake WC "Carmella" adult super sweet temperment (Eggs all hatched!)

1.3.13 Storeria dekayi Casper, Xena, Athena, Sharon & Kids

0.1.0 Thamnophis cyrtopsis Easter Black Neck Garter "MoJo"

1.1.0. Thamnophis elegans vagrans Wandering Garter

2.2.0 Thamnophis Sirtalis - Florida Blue stripe Garter

2.1.0 Thamnophis sirtalis - eastern Garters

0.0.1 Thamnophis HybridAlbino Checkered Normal eastern

2.0.0 Thamnophis sirtalis - eastern Garters (xtreme orange phase)

1.1.0 Thamnophis RADIX - Snow Hets

0.1.0 Thamnophis RADIX - Christmas Albino

0.0.1 Thamnophis sirtalis - Red Phase Eastern Garter red and white stripes

0.0.1 Thamnophis butleriButler's Garter Snake

0.0.4 Thamnophis proximus orariusCoastal Ribbons

0.0.16 Thamnophis sirtalis - newborn Eastern Garter babies 7/11/08

0.0.17 Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis HET Anerythristic Scott Felzer stock.

0.1.0 Thamnophis sirtalis Eastern Snow "Snowflake"

0.0.1 Thamnophis sirtalis infernalis California Red Sided (R.I.P. little guy)

1.2.0 Thamnophis pickeringi - Puget Sound Garter "Sky" (adult, Sky blue) 2 females recently aquired.

0.0.1 Nerodia sipedon - Water Snake - "Aqua" adult WC Pink eater!

0.1.0 Storeria occipitomaculata - Red Belly snake (Her children were raised & released)

0.0.1 Amelanistic Corn Snake "CY" Sub-adult CB

1.0.0. Pueblan Milk snake "Oreo" adult CB

1.0.0. ASIAN GREEN SNAKE 3' WC Cyclophiops major"Limon"

0.0.1. Savannah Monitor "CHOMPER" Growing fast!

1.1.3. Green Anole "Crystal" & "Chris" WC dropping eggs fast!

1.0.0. K9 "ACE" Black Cockapoo

0.2.0. Feline"Felix"(R.I.P. 4/27/08) "Kaja" & "Silver"

2.1.0. calico RATS

2.4.?? Mice - Feeder farm - Crickets / fish

More herps than I could ever list out back on the land.

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