Quote Originally Posted by pitbulls4me View Post
Most good breeders dont make too much money off breeding dogs either with all the health testing and medical care needed to ensure you are breeding healthy dogs. To me breeding for money is one of the most irresponsible and selfish things one can do... these are animals lives in OUR hands!

My personal opinion is to leave the breeding up to people who know what they are doing... like who have owned BPs for a long time and have done all their research. I guess from working in a shelter and having to euthanize a lot of animals in my life, you start to really think who breeds animals. I am ok with breeding as long as it is done responsibly with mammals and reptiles alike. Make sure you know what you are getting into and you wont be irresponsible about doing so.
ok that is your opinion and thank you. but i'm not planning on breeding tomarrow. im just starting to read up on all of it figure out the ins and out ups downs all around. but that statement about good dog breeders not making good money is not true. coming from an ex dog breeder. i used to breed am staffs, bull dogs and pitbulls. And yes you do make good money if you are good with money also. i had a new batch of puppies every 11 months and each time would have anywhere from 30-50 puppies and not one of them going for less than 1300. you do the math, that is pretty good. and the expenses were just vet check ups, food, and housing wich never went above 6000 a year. so if an extra 40000 a year(at the least) on the side isnt good you must be pretty rich. and for it being irresponsible, i always met the people i was selling them to and if i thought for one second they were not going to be taken care of the sell didnt happen. and if a good person is paying an average of 1600 for a dog they arent going to neglect them. And there is my opinion, thank you. oh and ANATESS, i dont have other females i was just going to get one male het albino one female het albino and a female albino. therefore i breed the hets and will have like a 25% chance of albinos and then breed the het with the albino and have a greater chance of more albinos. does that seem like a good idea or is there something else i can put with the hets to get a greater variety of bp's. And again for all of you that believe i am in it just for the money, really i am not scouts honor. i really like everything about ball pythons and want to have fun bringing life to snakes it just wouldnt hurt to try and sell a few after they are born to try and make my money back that went into all of my snakes. and hey you never know maybe Ill get good at it and be able to have a fun filled bp filled life... i know that last part was korny but thats how i feel about the situation. THANK YOU ALL THAT ARE HELPING ME, AND GIVING GREAT ADVICE!!!!!!!!