Excellent post, Meme!

Like Meme, my husband and I ended up with two adult WC female BP's - not by choice but through rescuing them. While they are worth the effort, it was like Meme said - very long, difficult, time consuming and a lot of worrying over them to get them anywhere near the health and weight that a breeding female needs.

Unless it was a very unique WC I wouldn't purposefully go out and purchase one and quite honestly most of the really unique ones aren't going to get into the hands of the average small breeder/hobbyist all that often. The folks importing out of Africa aren't dummies, they know when something is very different. I would bet that it gets directed to their contacts stateside and rarely just pops up available to most of us.