Quote Originally Posted by 1nstinct View Post
most of the big breeders will wholesale their normal(mostly males) ball pythons to pet stores. and if your going to breed your possible het pied male your best bet is to breed him to a pied female so there is no question is he is a het pied or not. and this would leave you with with het pieds and pieds(if he proves out)

I know. And I don't plan on breeding. Not because I think it's a bad thing, I just don't have the time to find the right homes for all the normals I would hatch out and since one of my bp's is a petsmart "rescue", I would never feel good about forwarding them on to a place like that. That's exactly my point. I don't know where you live but the pet stores around me are filled with severely underfed normals. And as long as someone comes in with the money, they will sell them the snake. Who knows what happens after that. I would want to check in with the new owners of any snake I sold. Even the normals.