Quote Originally Posted by joepythons View Post
So in other words Wes who cares about the animals in the wild? If we all had this type of thought we will never have any wild animals left in the wild and thats not right at all.
I'm sorry my story was too complicated for you to understand it. Let me try again in another way that you will hopefully be able to understand.

There will be people where ball pythons come from who depend on selling ball pythons to feed their families. No pythons and the kids starve.

It's not about not caring about the snakes, as anyone not spoiling to make a fool of himself can see, but about economics.

If your choice is to see your kids starve or catch a bunch of snakes, what would you do? And before you answer remember this. You have no savings. Your farm, that used to feed your family is now dust. There is nowhere to go but the city where your kids will be, literally, living on handouts in the streets.

I hope I have simplified this sufficiently.

No matter what we think would be best, the guy with the hungry kids is going to catch and sell snakes until there are none left.

IF you feel so strongly about them, don't buy imports, don't do business with anyone who does, and denounce everyone who deal in them.