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meretseger
at Mon Jun 23 06:39:06 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by meretseger ]
Logically, if you were going to sterilize something to control the population, you'd sterilize just females. Because a female can only have one litter a year, but a busy male could probably have hundreds of offspring. That's why they're out shooting does and not bucks with birth control darts in my state.
But if you're going to do something like that (if you even can without hurting the snake) you ethically have to tell the buyer, which kind of defeats the point. (ie, if they want to breed, they're not going to buy an altered snake).
The story has a bit of an urban legend ring... I mean, how did the guy find out after the fact that the breeder had done this? Would a vet be able to prove it for sure?
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