John I agree with you 100%. I have been dealing with reptile since I was 9 and although the boas are a new adventure for me I have many reptiles. I have NEVER bought a captive bred reptile. I only buy for respectable breeders and check into them thouroughly before I buy.



But here's another point that people might not realize. I work in a manage a pet store and have been there for 5 years now. We only deal with captive bred animals (after much persisting on my part). BUt when dealing with the imported specimens they would all come in with major parasites and respitory infections. From the stress and conditions that they had been through since there capture. We would them start the process of trying to save them. We would be lucky if we save 50% of the animals where many times all of them died. These were animals that most likely have live long happy lives if they had been left to themselves. In my opinion they died needlessly seeing there are so many animals being bred in captivity.



Erin

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