Why the heck can't breeders adopt from shelters!!! It's so frustrating! I just emailed yet another shelter about a BP, sometimes I just offer my advice-don't advertise the BP as a het pied if you don't want someone to adopt it for breeding or resale. Anyhow, I emailed about a BP that has been in the shelter for months, I'm thinking it was at least 6 months ago that I first I saw it on there. In the email I stated that I was a breeder, used my website email, etc, and asked why I wouldn't be a candidate when I was clearly capable of caring for the animal. Although opinionated, I stated that I was way more experienced than any first time owner and the BP would be given an optimal living environment from day one, not a month or two later when the snake still hasn't ate, has bad sheds, is dehydrated, or the new owner gets tired of having it and all the problems and puts it up on craigslist.
It's almost like shelters have a copy paste for this question. Reasons we don't adopt to breeders:
1) You keep them in tiny tubs and they never get to be social or happy
2) The babies will just end up back here / you're just adding to the problem
3) You will resell the snake to make money off it.
*sigh*
I would like to hear from someone who volunteers/works at a shelter about their opinion. It just seems like a breeder would be the ideal home, but maybe I'm crazy!
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