Quote Originally Posted by purplemuffin View Post
I'm curious, how do you decide that you want to wholesale normals to a pet store? We all know the horror stories of what happens to ball pythons in bad pet stores, chains and local, so how do you go about choosing one you think will treat them well? Anyone ever have issues with this? (go back to the store to find dying/sick baby snakes of yours, etc.)

The last decent pet store near me moved locations so it's now 6 hours away, so I know that wouldn't be an option for me--The pet stores left are all terrible, I've never seen a healthy reptile in any of them(Even saw a chinese water dragon who had rubbed his front of his face off--to the bone!) Because of this I've had to think around the whole idea of wholesaling snakes. It just wouldn't feel right to send any of them to a place like that. I know when I start breeding I'm hoping to minimize normals by including visual recessive genes so I'll at least have hets/have the only normals be VERY nice quality by buying only high quality animals so they can find good homes too.
The pet store I am wholesaling to is a reptile specialty store not only do they have their store, they also breed a few things and do shows on a regular basis.

No matter who you sell to store or private owner their is no way you can control what will happen to the animal, you can only hope for the best or you can keep them all so you won't have to worry

There are store I would not sell to but people have have met and learn to know at shows are those that have the means to sell them and those whom I chose to sell to.