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traceh
at Sun Mar 13 22:46:33 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by traceh ]
I have really been collecting cheap small colubrids and leopard geckoes lately. I figured the more corns, kings, rats and geckoes I add to my collection the more offspring I can get in a few years thus allowing me to fund other, more expensive projects. But alas, I am torn with an ethical dilemma. If I produce 1,000 cheap baby snakes in a season, for example and I sell all 1,000 babies cheap, what do you think happens to them? What are all of your opinions on the pet trade? True I can print up a million "care sheets", offer my email address/phone number and try to help people raise their babies but do you actually think everyone that buys a snake will use these resources? Of course there are always casualties in war and a few baby snakes should be sacrificed here and there to help put
them into the hobby which in turn cuts back on people wild collecting, ball pythons for example are still imported by the tens of thousands yet even more are bred in captivity annually. Eventually, will enough be bred that there will be no more imports? If that is true than supporting the pet trade would be a great thing. Or is it a never ending battle, until at least
there are no more wild ball pythons? I guess I am just wondering what is the best interest for the animal, I don't want to give animals human characteristics and I know animals will always die but one question still lingers. What do people do when their pet goldfish dies? They go buy another one, because they're cheap and readily available. Is the same thing happening to "pet store" snakes, geckos, etc?
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 Ethical dilemma - traceh, Sun Mar 13 22:46:33 2005
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