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Isn't it tough to sell your adult snakes? (breeder question)

Ravenessa

Ravenessa

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So I have seen a lot of breeders clearing out adult snakes. Which I assume is norm so they can get new blood, continue projects etc.
But isn't it a little hard to do? esp if it is a couple of generations you have bred and raised yourself?

I am assuming you guys also have a few favorites "pet snakes" that will never leave? How do you even choose?
 
You mean from an attachment perspective? I would have to say no. I really don't think of my snakes as pets. Maybe like specimens? That doesn't mean I don't care for them and want them to have clean cages, fresh water, and good food. I just don't get attached to them. They can't even get attached to one another. Their thought processes just don't go that high. I do not name them, although some do earn nicknames. I do talk to them while cleaning, but I guess I'm really talking to myself. I am disappointed if any should die (see my thread Stupid FedEx, in this section), but I don't lose sleep from selling them to other keepers. My interests change/evolve over time, and I cannot keep them all. I hope that doesn't make me sound too cold/callous? Now I have genuine interaction with my lovebird and cat. I would be quite upset if something happened to them.
 
Yes and no, though thankfully I haven't had to sell many that hadn't been produced or acquired with the intent to sell beforehand. I find that I am more attached to ones that I have raised, less so with ones that we've gotten as adults. All of ours are considered pets first and are named but I'm definitely not as attached to them as to our cats or dogs, which is actually the only reason I can breed them, I would not be able to breed the cats or dogs because I'd get too attached to the babies to let them go and when bad stuff happened, I'd be too crushed to continue.

I am finding it a bit hard to let one go, Tavia, my first corn. She is a Petco Classic with unknown background, taking up space that could be used to further some breeding projects that I'm very excited about. So I've been kicking around selling her but haven't convinced myself to do it yet. I'd have to be very picky about who she went to.
 
How much space does ONE extra snake take up? I could never sell her you even have her name here?!

Backafter I understand what you mean, and no you don't sound cold.

And Tavia I think that is why I would have a hard time breeding corn snakes, because I have taken in a few discarded ones :( It'd kill me if that happened to one of my babies..

I would have issues with it, I am not quite sure how you guys do it..
 
I have not sold a ton of reptiles in my lifetime, but I was always a little sad, even with babies. But when you have >50, it's easy to pick up one of your remaining favorites and feel better. It's hard to be really attached to so many animals, although I do have some snakes that I will never sell.

What is *really* upsetting is when one dies on you. When I found my little saffron dead, it was the cherry on top of a really crappy day. He had stayed hatchling-sized for a year and I got really attached to him, partly because he was such a gentle little guy, and probably partly because I had to give him so much extra TLC. So compared to that, selling is not so bad.
 
Oddly or perhaps not so oddly, I also tend to get more attached to the ones that require more TLC too. I'm probably going to end up keeping that little Caramel Tessera that failed to absorb it's yolk, even though I don't have room. I've already named it, which has likely doomed me.
 
I understand both sides, but for me I have my pet snakes "friends" and projects which I try to stay emotionally distant from. To protect myself from having to sell a friend. I never buy a snake without first knowing which category it will be in.

BTW Ravenessa marry me lol.
 
Hmm I am not sure I could compartmentalize that way.. I totally understand why you guys do it but yeah. A person I know who's a boa breeder, her and her husband had an amazing litters of all novas with insanely crazy patterns... I was like the whole litter is hold back. I could never choose..

Marry?! where? hu what did I do this time? lol *looks confused*
 
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