Do you care who you sell to?

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

Whose care sheet?

90% of the ones out there are imo outdated and wrong.
Do I write my own with my knowledge of care or do I pass on someone else's poorly written care sheet.
There is many many ways to care for ball pythons, who is to say my way jives with other peoples ways?

Many new people to the hobby throw ball pythons into tanks.
In my opinion tanks are for fish not nocturnal snakes that need good humidity.
Do I tell people this or?
That's just one example...

Be careful what you push on others :gj:

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BUT snakes can be properly cares for in tanks if set up right

I like to talk to people before I sell them any kind of animal . I refused to sell a puppy to a guy because he gave me the impression she was going to be in a puppy mill . As far as far as refusing a sale just because a person doesn't know everything . No I like it when somebody asks a lot of questions . It shows a genuine interest in the housing of the animals . The point is you never really know what kind of a person they really are. Maybe they are good at BS'ing. Maybe the first time buyer doesn't want to buy a pile of crap from a chain store so they go to a breeder. Better to ask the question than not. After all they gotta start somewhere .

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Originally Posted by iCandiBallPythons

So if the snake was 699.99, it has less chance of being killed? I have customers that take better care of normals than Ive seen some 1000.00 dollar animals taken care of on here

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Ditto.

I knew a guy who bought a poodle puppy for 900 dollars. He had no money left over for food, toys, leash nor shots and didn't spend time doing the research into training, and did zero research on how to buy, so bought the puppy from a pet shop.

So a friend of his was constantly caring for the puppy, but she had exams, so the poor puppy bounced to me. I was the one that ended up getting it better quality puppy food, taught it how to walk on leash, taught it to potty train, sit, lay down, roll over, stop barking at the door, come, play fetch, and play with toys. It was one smart dog. Loved its short little walks, and loved to learn tricks. I was slowly socializing the dog with other dogs, but it was slow because it hadn't really seen other dogs.

The dog eventually liked me so much that it would sleep next to me at night instead of in its bed and once made a trail of treats from it's bed to me. Touched my heart, it did. Also liked to run from the bedroom to me and back.

In a period of three days I had that puppy eager to learn new tricks. What's sad, though, is that once I raised my hand to give a hand signal to sit and the puppy cowered. My heart broke... I think that poor puppy had been getting hit by its owner. My friend never hit it.

So I trained my friend on how to care for the puppy, gave her a write up, and she followed, but when the guy came to care for the puppy again, he refused to use the toys we'd both bought for the dog and was purposefully putting his hand into the dog's mouth as a chew toy. My friend and I were both powerless what to do with the guy--I asked for advice from other dog owners and the alternatives weren't much better. The puppy bounced to the guy's mother eventually.

Him and another woman (woman was worse... and my heart broke for the poor animals) basically solidified in my mind that I would screen all potential buyers.

Just because they have all that money, doesn't mean they have the money left over to care for the animal. A ball python cage set up takes money. Rats takes money. If they burned it all on the purchase of the snake and don't care any more, then what?


BTW, I have my female in a 40 gallon long glass tank, she did *not* like the rack system idea one bit and I have it covered with a towel to keep in humidity, and monitor it pretty much every day. She's kinda odd though, since she likes roaming around outside of her hides, and climbs up things, etc. She does fine.

Rest are in large under bed containers with snap on lids and I cut out some space for screens, also covered with a towel.