What would you do?

[Egapal]

I'm having a bit of a dilemma here and I could really use some advice. Last night I e-mailed the breeder of my female hypo jungle boa to give him an update on her. I've had her almost 6 months now and the guy I got her from really seems to care for his animals so I thought he would appreciate the update. He did and he thanked me for the picture and the update, but he also sent me a picture of a male he has for sale. The male is really nice and would be a great mate for her because he is also very clean and has great color. I'm 95% sure I am going to buy him.

What I am unsure of is what I should do with my other male boa. I have a male hypo boa that I won from one of Ben Siegel's facebook auctions. I wasn't really planning on winning him, but for the price I ended up paying I was extremely happy. He does have some nice color to him, but he is very freckled. From a business stand point, it doesn't make sense to keep him. I don't want to get heavily into breeding boas, I just think my girl is too pretty not to try to breed eventually. If I keep him then that is eventually going to become another 5-7ft snake I have to feed and house, but have no real use for. I'm not overly attached to him, I've only had him about 2 months, but I still consider him a pet.

When I started building my collection I never thought I would sell or re-home any of the snakes that I purchased or decided to hold back. I don't think it will be hard (emotionally) to sell babies because I know going in that I intend to sell them, but I have a very hard to thinking of sell/re-homing any of the snakes in my collection. What would you do? Logic tells me I should sell him, but my heart is telling me he's part of the family and I can't just "dump" him when something better comes along.

This is a great question and I would suggest that you should just sell the snake. Let me give you my reasons. Things change. You were doing everything right when you took the snake in. You seam like one of the good guys. It sounds to me like you can and will keep this snake until the day it dies if you can't find it a good home. If you are seriously just looking for someone to tell you its ok to start looking for a good home for the snake then look no further. Its a completely different story if you sell or give the snake to someone who you don't feel will provide a good home or you go into it with bad intentions. I am not saying that you need to do a background check or hire a private detective either BTW.