Why so obsessed?

[Bugmom]

I guess I still don't get it.

Let's say I breed my pewter male and my pastel female in two years. I get cinnamons, pastels, pewters, maybe a super pastel. Odds are against me that I won't get a sterling pastel. So what though? Now I have a cinnamon that I didn't have to buy. Yay! Maybe I have a super pastel that I didn't have to buy. Extra yay! Because I'm not starting this venture in the red, and can easily afford to have more than the 10 snakes I have now, what's it to me or anyone else if I have a clutch of "just" pewters and pastels? They're going to be quality animals because they're produced from quality animals, and I'll have my hold backs and sell or yes, maybe even give away the rest, because SNAKES ARE FREAKING AWESOME and I want to share my snakes with the world.

If you start a business in the red, so much that you NEED to make a profit on every single snake produced, then there's a flaw in your business plan. You have to expect to run at a loss for awhile unless you start in the black. If you are the kind of person who sells off snakes because the washer broke and you don't have $400 to buy a new one, then there's a flaw in both your personal and business budgets. Every business needs emergency funds, it needs contingency plans, it needs a solid and detailed several-year plan. And it needs to be able to stay "open" when selling the product at the lowest market price. You can't bank on selling at the highest market price.