Quote Originally Posted by Rob View Post
I never said people had to pick one over the other. My point was a snakes life span is generally longer then a dogs yet people are so fast to sell/ trade snakes like they are baseball cards. Sadly I think a lot of people just see them as a cool looking object, not the living breathing animal that they are.
It probably doesn't help that we call them a collection and not just "my pets". You call someone's pack of dogs a collection and they'll tell you they're not running an art gallery or collecting stamps.

It's also a lot more expensive to get into breeding dogs (provided you do it properly, ie health tests, titles, etc) unless you're working with some crazy morphs.

Not that I don't agree with you, I hate how on my craigslist the most active guy just wants trades for BP morphs... xbox for bp morph, fan items for bp morph, etcetc. They're not trading cards that you can just swap on a whim. They're living breathing animals that might not have higher emotion, but Quetzal definitely seems to associate me and only me with "safety" considering he doesn't seem particularly interested in crawling on anyone else.