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odatriad
at Sun Nov 21 18:01:30 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by odatriad ]
If you are able to achieve the success to allow you to perform a business, or make money, that's great. I am not discrediting that. I simply stated that the majority of people who are "deep" into this hobby, are coming from a standpoint of making money...and not enjoying what they are doing first... But instead, it's work work work, right off the bad to try and breed these animals, when you are not experiencing any enjoyment out of them.
If the day should ever come that I have excess babies, then yes, I would probably sell some, and/or give them to zoological institutions. Making money off a hobby isn't a crime, nor am I against it. It is the mentality of wanting to make money over the enjoyment aspect..
It is all too often that we see people get into monitors, buy a group of them, they do not see any immediate success in breeding them, so they quickly get discouraged and sell their animals. It happens all too frequently. You can't deny that this doesn't happen....
People with the attitudes of "I am going to make big bucks breeding monitors", are most likely not to succeed. It is the people who put their heart and soul into their animals, and really enjoy what they are doing, that will in fact breed their animals, and be "successful".
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RE: Herpetoculture has grown because of greed - odatriad, Sun Nov 21 18:01:30 2004