Why do some people return their ball pythons?

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I love ball pythons, but when I was initially researching snakes, what discouraged me from getting a ball python was that they may have eating issues. I knew that would stress me out, and I wasn't willing to feed live, so I ruled them out pretty quickly (despite seeing like, the most gorgeous, lovely ones at expos). But again, lots of them do fine... I just didn't want to deal with that element. There is a big variety in the rat snake/corn snake group that are good, too. My fiance's Japanese rat snake is like, the ideal beginner snake (eats perfectly, friendly, knows the difference between my hand and food), although I did see another on here (a female Japanese rat snake) where she was aggressive. A lot just depends on the individual, I guess, like with any other animal.

I volunteer for a rabbit rescue, and I think people give up pets basically because they did not think ahead. Because it is socially acceptable to treat animals as objects (as opposed to like, children, who rarely are abandoned), people have more freedom to just dump them. Also, because they are sold in a store, as objects, they inherently get designated as that, in the minds of the dumb people who buy them. In addition, people just don't know anything about animals in general, and think they could live on their own in the wild. My iguana was dumped outside in Wisconsin (fortunately in August) and my rabbit (who is big and white and would be immediately eaten by an eagle) was found as a stray. Honestly, people are just irresponsible and ignorant. However, I can tell just because you are here asking, and are able to form full sentences, that you are not like that, lol.

So, I know above I said I had ruled out bps because of the eating thing, but I think you could go a long way to mitigate this by finding a breeder (or a rescue) and asking whether it is eating frozen-thawed or live. Rescues near me often have normals and some morphs as well, and you could get the instant gratification of getting a non-tiny baby snake, too, who is already an established eater (if the rescue is responsible and not putting one up for adoption too soon).