There are problems with renting (or loaning) for breeding purpose: for one thing, you never know what diseases you might be accidentally introducing to your collection
this way...any breeder worth buying from is serious about quarantining their animals, so breeding from males from elsewhere is a huge risk & uncertainty. You have to
figure that anyone who isn't worried about doing this with their animals (from either side) is probably NOT someone you should trust to deal with.
Not only that, but it's stressful for the snake being "temporarily re-homed"...BPs in particular are great at "going off-feed" so you won't know whether it's a "normal fast"
or an illness that started from the breeding loan. And if either one gets sick, there can be a lot of angry finger-pointing...
Finding that person with the right snake to pair with yours means you'd want someone you TRUST: not just how their snakes are cared for (& what they were exposed to
& not yet sick from) but also when it comes to how you'll divide the resulting clutch...all those details have to be worked out in advance...what if there is no success? etc.
I can remember posts on another forum documenting one member's experience with a breeding loan...with a "friend" whose husbandry was very sloppy & lacking (dirty
cages, no water half the time, etc)...it didn't go very well...certainly not what they envisioned at the start. You also have to worry about people who leave town with your
snake (or conversely, they worry about you). Like I said, how well you truly know someone becomes very important.
These are risks that few if any of us would take. Certainly not me...
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