letting go of bp's

i would of liked to keep my spider but with my bday coming up im planning on adding a pair of black pastels 66% het albinos so i needed space in my rack to house them after QT

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

Yea same. I think my normal is a female but if she turns out to be a he then i wouldnt give him up for anything. He was my first snake and i wuv him too much :)

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same here with my normal female she was the 1st snake i got and she will be kept till one of us gets too old

I don't know that we will ever get rid of any of our originals. We have our first bp, who is a normal male, he will never breed, and he will never leave. We also have not so great, not so nice pastel female who will also probably be here forever too. Honestly, I would love to open up her tub for room for something nicer, but she will be here forever too. I suppose at some point once we start breeding I may have to rotate.......Naw, I'll just wind up with more snakes.....:D

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I feel that...more than you know. Back in 09 I had 9 BPs - a 1.1 pair of het albinos, 1.2 normals (one my first ever BP, another a rescue, and the third a very pretty reduced pattern fella), 1.1 pastels, 0.1 spider, and 1.0 albino. All but the normals and my male pastel SunSpot I had for breeding. Then the economy crashed and my partner lost his job.

To have enough money to live while we searched for work, I had to sell the hets and normals (along with a corn and MBK). It was quite hard...but selling Nagini, my first ever BP, was hardest. She got a great home with a breeder who loved her blushing and high white sides, but I cried all day.
I took the other 4 BPs and 4 corns (in tubs on my lap) from Denver to Seattle... but continued tough times for us led to the forced selling of all but the two I have now. I still tear up thinking about my spider girl.

But no matter what happens, and we're in a tough spot again right now, I will never rehome SunSpot (my beloved rescue pastel) or Freya the snow corn, as she is my partner's snake and they are quite attached to each other. :D If we lose our apartment due to the troubles now, I will find someone to care for the snakes, BTS and my rabbit until we get it together. I will not lose these guys.

It's always hard saying goodbye, for whatever reason, to animals you've become attached to. But knowing that at least helps us prepare for breeding by making sure we know not to become attached to the babies! :)