letting them go (selling or adopting-out..)

I am in the process of homing-out a male BP that I took in from a friend of Mark's.. He was a rescue, in that this guy had way too many snakes, crammed into small cages.. so I got him stabilized, eating well, mite-free, and I have found a nice man from Buffalo who is adopting him for a reasonable adoption fee..
So why do I feel a little sad about it? I am just getting into selling bred animals; we went through something similar when selling our two horse foals last year. I know it is for the best, as I have no space permanently for him in my rack and will only build a new rack later if I get hatchlings I want to keep.. but I guess this is just a little type of "growing pain" you get when selling or rehoming any animal.. it doesn't make it easier though!
I know that it is for the best; in planning the rack, we did not know that we would buy this Spider we got so soon, so we are a slot short.. also, I would rather let him go now, than build up an attachment and have it tougher later on.

I have sold a couple animals that I had recently purchased... an 06 female and and a reduced pattern female? (never had it sexed..) I believe it MIGHT have been a WC and it was THE BIGGEST HEADACHE... I had kept it quarantined and tried to get it to eat for me but it was just so much for me at the time.... Somebody really wanted it and I told them that it was possibly WC and explained to them the situation on how it is not eating and that it could fast for a while... He was in love with the snake, had owned another ball python. Promised to quarantine and keep them seperate. I gave him a bP.net ball python caresheet and told him to give me a call if there was ever a moment that he could not care for it or ran into money problems. I let him know that I would buy the animal back from him if anything was to arise... Still, I felt sad letting the animals go...but I had to prime myself to get ready for when I have to sell other hatchlings and snakes... I had given caresheets, long talks, my phone number if they have any questions/problems to the people that bought the snakes. I have alot of confidence that they will do well with them.:)

I guess I just love the animals so much...:D

i get sad every single time i rehome or sell a critter.

just think how it must be for people like adam :eek:

I am usually at least a little sad about every animal I rehome or sell. I am usually worried they may not receive the proper care from their new owners, and I still can't bring myself to sell any of the babies I produced to a pet store.