Culling Healthy Animals

[Adam_Wysocki]

Then you would be a minority. Mostlarge scale breeders..people who produce more than 100 animals per year, can not make these claims. I have been around a very long time. There are no absolutes of course.

Two points about the quote above ...

#1 ... "more than 100 animals per year" is not a "large scale breeder" by any stretch of the imagination. You should know better if you've been around for a "very long time"

#2 ... Ingrid is not in the minority. I produce over 100 animals a year by an order of magnitude and I make sure that EVERY animal I sell either goes to a good home or goes to a trusted friend that I know will find it a good home. I have dozens of friends in this business that produce as much and even more than I do that do the same. I don't know where you've been for this long time, but it's not in the same reptile hobby that I know.

It can be done. Just because you choose not to put forth the effort and choose to KILL healthy animals doesn't mean that the rest of the industry follows suit. I'm embarrassed for you that your mental picture of this business is a bunch of emotionless breeders that would rather kill healthy offspring than find them proper homes. I've been around a long time too, going on 30 years of keeping ball pythons, I've had the privilege of meeting thousands of reptile breeders, hobbyists, and enthusiasts, and while there is certainly a small fraction that does have the same flagrant disregard for how precious a life is that you seem to have the VAST MAJORITY care about their animals as much as most people care about a dog, or a cat, or a even a family member.

Shame on you for lumping all of the good people in this hobby into a pile with the careless scum that are 100% to blame for the problems we are having with state, local, and the federal governments ... Shame on you for not taking the time to get to know the side of the hobby that treasures every life no matter what it's financial value, as precious ... Shame on you for discounting the compassion, respect, and love for these animals that I see every day on these forums and in the phone calls and emails that I receive as something done for show or in order to make sales.

If you want to kill healthy animals, that's your choice. But don't try to sell it to people that actually care about life. No one is buying.

Blessings,

-adam