You think snakes are bad? Even if you had a killer collection with 20 snakes and all of them being high quality, you might top out just under 100,000.

I have worked in the horse industry where people will spend over 30,000 to get a young horse (barely broken to ride), ship it from Europe to the U.S., only to put it into training for 2k a month (minimum, up to 6k a month). Then the horse gets a stomach ache on the trip, colics and dies, or get's into the training program, only to be out in it's field one day and roll into a fence, scrape it's leg and be out of work for 3-9 months. Those months you still have to pay to feed and house it while it recovers. Not to mention the vet bill, the 4-6 weeks in between shoeing the horse (100-300 per time, depending), semi-annual (to quarterly) vaccinations, tack, grooming supplies, blankets, supplements.

I would easily pay 15K for a snake that eats once a week and lives in a plastic tub with no will to hurt itself.

But that's just me...

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