Quote Originally Posted by joebad976 View Post
Right you did say that and when you produce all these pastels they will be selling for about the same price a normal does so will you then consider them the cheapest of animals as well?

As breeders we should educate our buyers to ensure the animal is not abused/neglected. Granted this may not cure abuse/neglect it is still better than euthanizing.

Which is also why I'm considering purchasing an Axanthic Killer bee....so the minimum would be a pastel 100% het axanthic. Not to mention that I can afford to hang on to the less expensive morphs longer to find them good homes because of the money I'm getting from the more expensive morphs in the clutch. I'm putting out a bunch of cash so I can stay ahead of this problem, thats my way of dealing with it. I personally would never breed animals that could produce normals because I do not want to be stuck in that situation. In the same way that we have several breeder cresteds which would produce offspring that I know I could not sell for more cash then they consume in the 3-6months it takes to get them ready to be shipped. I would be pressed economically to get rid of them and this might lead them to ending up in the hands of folks that wouldn't take care of them.

And of course it is the breeders responsibility to educate buyers but irregardless you can not guarantee that those folks won't just nod their heads go home and stick a BP in a screen cage.

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Quote Originally Posted by barbie.dragon View Post
You can't make a correlation without data. But besides the points, it depends on how much they value something. I have friends that drive $200,000 cars that don't care if they crash it while they cherish a dog yet adopted from the shelter for $150 dollars. Or one of my family friends euthanized his great dame that costed him $1500 because he didn't want to deal with taking care of the dog after surgery. Also I know people that take very good care of whatever they buy (expensive or not). If the person buys a snake to see it as a thing and not a livin animal then they won't give a flying feather if it does or not.
Well your right, I can't throw statistics at you because no one has done the empirical research. I can however put together a logical framework. Property that is expendable tends to get abused. There are exceptions to the rule but that really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of my proposition. In the same way that in economics, people respond to incentives, does that mean that all people respond to the same incentives? No, but that does not invalidate the logic.