Posted by:
Bill Moss
at Sun Jun 8 20:35:45 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bill Moss ]
In addition to the very real issues the other posters brought up, there could be another reason the pet stores are less than enthusiastic about supporting the local herp society and that is lost business.
Once a person joins the herp society and have begun networking with the other members of the group, they begin to get information about alternative sources for both animals and feeders. Now the person who may have been spending money at the pet shop has taken their business elsewhere and probably getting better pricing than the pet shop, with all thier overhead costs, can give them. In the cases that I'm personally familiar with, it's not that there is a bad relationship but the owner doesn't volunteer information about the herp society - niether do they lie about it if asked a direct question. From a business perspective, I can understand there actions.
Bill
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