Exactly how many chain stores have you visited around the country to see this change happening? Fact is most of the chain stores get thier animals from one or two sources who buy them from whomever they can get them from. SO, their is no telling how many diseases are running through the wholesalers stock. Sorry, but that is not a chance I want to take ever.

Secondly, you said it best, "we look out for number one, it is human nature", BUT, that is a discussion for another day, that is the whole problem, for the most part, we are not concerned with others well beings when we would all live much better lives if we did think of others before always acting.

I am not concerened with $15-$25 albinos and other low end morphs, but when I pay $500 for an animal because it is new to the world. Then in less that 2-3 years some jack butt sells his babies for $150 and the market is affectively crashed at that point. Guess the lesson is that I should not pay high dollars and should just stop working with snakes because there are too many people with no true economical sense that are in the hobby now.

If this offends anyone, then oh well.

dc

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