Papers!

[WingedWolfPsion]

I actually make up nice, full color, laminated ID sheets for my hets. I know if people re-sell them, they'll want something decent to send along to prove their genetics.

Paperwork makes it MUCH easier for a customer who wants to resell the animal down the road.

My ID sheets include photos, names, and ID on each parent snake, a good top-down photo of the het animal itself (not balled up, of course), with its ID, genetics, gender, hatch date, etc. I sign it, and then laminate it.

The purpose of this is that my name and signature can follow this snake, and it can't very easily be forged. The snake's pattern will remain the same its entire life, so it can always be identified from its photo on the paperwork. I also have the animals registered in iHerp's lineage database, so there's an additional record of them, along with what I have in my own archives.

Paperwork is only as good as the breeder, but good paperwork makes things much easier for a customer.