Since we are talking about the animals feelings and happiness (anthropomorphic words that seem to be rarely used in herping...)
Maybe another advantage of CB animals over wild caught is that the CB animals don't know what they're missing in terms of freedom. They've never been outside of their little rubbermaid boxes, or BIG rubbermaid boxes, as they grow, and so won't have the same feeling of ennui as WC adults who have known the taste of the wild.

Do blood pythons feel ennui? (I like that word.)

...But seriously, I will now pose that as a question: having never owned a wild caught animal myself, well, except for toads I caught as a little kid , do WC animals seem more desparate to escape than CB animals? Poking at the edges of their enclosure and whatnot?

...Or is all this too much anthropomorphizing?

...I type too much.
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A. Fox

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