Being fair about PetSmart (and buying your ball python from them)

[predatorkeeper87]

Gonna take a wild guess and say you sell as feeders @~@

little bit of this, little bit of that haha. I mostly breed for my own snakes, so much cheaper in the long run when I can have 50 rats in the freezer ready to roll after 1.5 months. I do sell live same sex pairs to people who want well cared for rats as pets, but its mostly my snakes' food source and as I grow the operation into producing 150/week roughly it will be a feeder business on the side.

[m3gz]

annnnnd one of the aspects of snake ownership im not looking forward to x.x i love rats and mice.

[Craiga 01453]

annnnnd one of the aspects of snake ownership im not looking forward to x.x i love rats and mice.

Was my least favorite part at first too. It gets easier. Then it just becomes routine, as if it's any other meal for any other animal. But still fascinating to watch!

[m3gz]

I'm going to have to mentally convince myself im preparing and giving them a piece of chicken. Not even joking.

[predatorkeeper87]

annnnnd one of the aspects of snake ownership im not looking forward to x.x i love rats and mice.

oh me too, but you have to, I repeat, HAVE TO separate the two loves in your mind. I love my snakes, and I love my breeding rats, but I cannot get attached to any of the youngin's. My one breeder male, Benny, waits for me to open the tub so he can practically fly out and run to the top of the rack and play tag with me lol.

[m3gz]

I'm not saying i wont do it, as you said i have to, im just glad im doing frozen not live.

[predatorkeeper87]

I'm not saying i wont do it, as you said i have to, im just glad im doing frozen not live.

pray once your snake addiction fully takes hold that your next one isn't a picky live only feeder then lol.

[m3gz]

ooohhhh no, this is the only snake. im too OCD to have more than one.


it owuld be the equivalent of shooting myself in the foot and going omg this is fun!

[predatorkeeper87]

ooohhhh no, this is the only snake. im too OCD to have more than one.

ya...every single human on this forum said that at one point. "I swear just one!" haha.

lol its stressful now, but once you get the husbandry and schedules locked in you are going to say wow this is easy...they only eat once every week or 10 days...I can handle 1...2...8 more no issue...