Quote Originally Posted by barbie.dragon View Post
Just to clarify the posts I typed up I'm not saying culling is out of the question. But at the same time if someone decides to breed ANY ANIMAL, they should expect and prepare for the worst. I got the feeling they were asking "Can I just cull all the normals I end up with when I breed." That to me was disturbing because people should not be going into breeding with that mindset. All options of finding the normal bp a home should be exhausted first before saying "k let's cull all of them because they might end up living a crappy life." I believe our mindset should be more along the liens of "when I sell my normal ball python to someone, let's put a little caresheet in there and do some very crude screening to make sure they at least have a thermostat, uth and knows what a snake eats."
Ah yeah, sorry about that. No, my main point of starting all this up was just to start up a discussion to get people thinking about where their normal or lower end BPs go to and whether it would be better to cull them vs. wholesaling them or handing them out like candy at expos. Mostly just meant for folks to self reflect a little about their decision to breed less expensive animals and try to get rid of them in whatever way they can. I'm of course not proposing that anyone here doesn't do interviews with their buyers, hand out caresheets, do home checks, etc. but I mostly just wanted to pick you alls brains a bit about the topic since I'm new to these forums and to BPs.

It is generally not as taboo a topic in the gecko world but still euthanasia is 98% of the time (at least in the circles I frequent) only accepted when there are catastrophic birth defects/disorders. Personally I wouldn't do a euthanasia due to morphs but I also wouldn't call someone evil for doing just that. I would however heavily consider not purchasing from the person that practiced it with the "I dont want this morph, "smash"" mentality.