Wow, that really shows how animals are nothing but business for some people. I was a vendor at a show this year, sales were slow, but traffic was huge. Mostly parents and kids just looking around. I talked to I had no voice teaching people just a little about snakes. Over and over I was explaingin why it is better to buy from a breeder, and they seemed to really take it to heart. I HATE to see young kids go into a pet shop and fall for an animal not suspecting at all it may die within a few weeks, and watch the stores just take the cash and send them on their way.,...it is really uncool. I had a customer...first timer come over my house. He says"i am gonna be a breeder". Then he went on to say snakes don't usually live but 6 years and expected his 20 inch cal king to lay eggs next season, not too mention he wanted to breed any king he could get too it? I talked forever with this guy, and it was like talking to a 9 year old....in one ear and out the other. I have a feeling the local pet shop told him he could breed that cal king'next season"...boy we could talk for days about this type of misinformation. I wish I had the funds to open my own store, what someone needs to do is what they do for dgos n cats at the big chains. Have free seminars on how to properly handle and care for reptiles...now there's a good idea. Tom Stevens

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