Got an offer--any advice?

[purplemuffin]

So, there is a reptile shop about 5 minutes from my house and Nathan and I have become the owner's "computer guys" which is cool... We are sort of apprentices at the shop and we get deals cut on supplies, feeders, animals, and he's actually offered to build Nathan's dad's tegu cage. It's working out really fun and it's been a really good way to get experience honestly!

Well, recently we've been talking and showing off our pets to him and he has taken a HUGE liking to Nagini. Everytime a boa person walks in the store he pulls out her pictures and asks them what they think of her, lol. He's actually really interested in working out a breeding loan since we don't have the males and he has REALLY nice males available. Now, she's not ready to breed yet(she's only a year old), but he's really serious about this. We've never done anything like this before, so we are very nervous. She would be at the shop while breeding is happening, which is only 5 minutes away(and we are there a couple times a week), but of course is nerve wracking cause she's our baby! Haha, he actually wanted to buy her first, but we wouldn't back down and so he's very determined to get her worked in.

When it comes time for this to possibly happen, I'd love to know things to watch out for... Things that should be gotten in writing I guess. Apparently he's got a nice double gene male he wants to breed with her(I think he has a hypo dutch pastel or something, I know it's hypo and something, I just forgot what he said the second gene was)


I guess I'm just sort of in shock and laughing a little, I knew my girl was a pretty lady, I didn't expect to have this happen! He must be willing to accept the 'risk' I guess that she won't prove out. Honestly, I still think she's a normal, but he's downright convinced she's a low expression jungle, or at least has some kind of 'color brightening trait' in there or just has good genes or something!

I dunno, I'm totally floored. I guess I don't know how to react.










Man, I really need to get a picture of her in her light phase now. All those are her in her dark phase(always looks best the day I leave my camera at home!) The only light phase picture I really have is a small piece of her as a baby, comparing that to her on a 'dark' day:




I do trust the guy, we've actually been watching him do this with another regular customer, and since we are the ones building and (starting tomorrow) running his website and kingsnake account, I don't think he'd want to rip us off. I've seen crazier things happen though. I guess I want to make sure all this happens as smoothly as possible. It's sort of an amazing opportunity, he has some boas worth well over a grand(and that's just in the front of his shop, he has his 'expensive snakes' in his warehouse) and the chance to get a baby bred from his nice stock is just kind of incredible.