Sure, theres always exceptions to the rule. I was not trying to draw a causal line between low cost and abuse only a correlation.

In the same way that I'm sure you could point to me cases where people crash their cars on purpose but the majority of people who invest that kind of money will do everything in their power to prevent an accident. More so if they have spent a considerable amount of their income on it.

Now if you started offering ferraris for free and lets say there was no personal risk of injury. I guarantee you that you would see a huge spike in the number of ferraris purposefully driven to extreme speeds, carelessly driven, or crashed on purpose.

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Yeah you may want to stick to geckos if you are already talking about euthanizing normal ball pythons. I understand where you are coming from but that should never be an option.

To the OP, I have no problem selling normals. I mostly trade them for rats at a local pet shop. If you don't have that available to you look at the classifieds there is always someone willing to purchase entire clutches and so forth. Make some connections no need to euthanize.

And you may want to read my original post where I said.

"We purposefully are going with pairings that will at least throw pastel into everything this way we can get the animals into hands of competant owners. I always find that the cheapest of animals (normal BPs, cheap Monitor species, turtles, etc) are the most abused/neglected ."