Actually with a little fine tuning I believe it would work out fine. It would change forever the way the wholesellers of Pet Store stuff operate but they could have the same gross wih less work.There was a time when I CONTROLED every iguana IMPORTED into the U.S. I wholesaled them for $8.50 ea [early 80's]. All came out of Suriname and I only sold about 10,000 annually but everyone made more money and less Iguanas entered the U.S. That was just fine with me. It's better than 50,000 for $2. Importers,jobbers, Petstores, and in situ collectors would all make more money per lizard. It wouldn't be so much of an impulse buy creature which I'm opposed to in the first place. If the market would support it in the early 80's it would now. I've been thinking about this same concept because selling herps that have a high mortality rate still in many cases are a powerful conservation tool. We are at a point where we must adapt to survive like some poor creatures eons ago lived thru many of Earth's cataclysyms. The sacrifice wouldn't be that bad and fewer animals at higher prices mean less labor for the same gross and the profit will be more in $$$. Everyone would do better but at first a LOT would cry and snivel but it would work.......
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Tom Crutchfield

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