I do not vote on many polls simply because of the language of the choices.

It does not "disgust" me... but at the same time I do not agree with it.

I have two WC girls in my collection that were brought into the country, the eggs collected, hatched out, nothing interesting came out of it and the girls were flipped.

I have two of, I believe, six that were brought in. The babes were ALL wholesaled to a pet store and then the person "got out of the hobby".

I adore these two snakes, and have no intention of moving them. I was offered the other four at a discounted price but had my hands full with the two I had so I did not take them. From what I heard the remaining four were dumped at a petstore.

That part does disgust me.

One of the reasons that all six were dumped was because the person that brought them in could not get them feeding. I was fortunate to get both on feed in the first four months.

I hate thinking of the person that ended up with any of these remaining four snakes thinking they were going to be getting a nice pet snake to enjoy. Possibly a new keeper that may or may not have been equipped by a pet store to deal with a healthy BP, let alone a non-feeding WC.

I look at the amount of time I spent IMHO rehabbing these two girls, and it has been A LOT of work.

The part I do not understand is the price and how people end up with those connections? I never see ads for them where I am. Is it worth it to bring them in and then wholesale the babies that hatch out as well as the mothers? I just do not see it as being a financially productive venue.

Bruce <--- who spent many hours on the phone with JoAnna getting those snakes to eat.