In a similar vein, I often get requests for geneology or parentage records, or hatching dates for the animals I send out. This takes time out of my already busy schedule and I cannot continue to do this without considering the costs to me. As such, I have to charge $10 per animal to do any of the record checks that are requested of me. Paid in advance. Before you get uptight about this policy, please consider it from my perspective. These sorts of requests, while legitimate, take time out of my life. Time that I need to be spending on something that needs to be done around here, or time I could be spending on something I would like to be doing. If this sort of information is important to you, then certainly you should not mind paying me for my time, which is important to me, to look up those records and provide them for you. After all, my looking up those records is at a cost to me, so all I'm doing is passing that cost on back to the people making these sorts of requests. Bear in mind that these are simple records and data checks, and nothing extensive. I once had someone suggest that I should provide all records for the animals he purchases back through 5 generations. When I determined the actual number of records I would have to research for each and every animal, I politely declined his business.
