Please don't take offense.

Years ago when we bred birds, hubby and I just made up a name, ordered business cards, and went about our business of raising and selling pet birds. We never gave much thought to the business end of things, we were young and inexperienced, and lets face it, birds are easy to come by and most everyone like them.

Now we are older, possibly wiser, and are ready to start hopefully breeding and raising ball pythons. Now, aside from the fact we will being dealing with much higher value animals than our birds ever were, we know a lot of people are "out to get" snake people so to speak.

I want to do this the right way, get a tax number, register a business name, etc. Hubby says no-one bothers with all that stuff.

So, I am appealing to you guys. How many of you out there breeding and selling your herps of any kind are a registered business? Why or why not?

Gale