Quote Originally Posted by Eric Alan View Post
I find it hard to believe that someone who cares about the animals they produce would not care about the well-being of their animals after they are sold. It's not about maintaining control - it's about finding a good home for an animal that you've put so much time, energy, and (hopefully) love into - not to mention money. Just because it's for sale doesn't mean that you no longer want the best for it.
This is very true. Again talking about petco, but they make you sign a waiver for every animal that says you agree to treat that animal humanely. For live feeding practices, we know this means I'm not going to torture the mouse or rat before dropping it in with my snake, I'm going to treat it with humane respect up too the point that my snake swallows it down. There are some people that think it's acceptable practice to stun their feeders before giving it to the snake, which I find to be tremendously inhumane and dangerous on top of everything. Things like that are a clear violation of the contract you bought the feeder under and if the store knew you meant to do something like that than they would be within rights to refuse the sale.

We all have to remember that sellers have rights just the same as buyers and refusing to sell animals to snake keepers is just something that comes with the territory of keeping snakes and won't be going away any time soon.