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    T. radix Ranch guidofatherof5's Avatar
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    Damage To Wild Populations

    It has been awhile since I've looked through the classified section of kingsnake.com
    Since I linked it for a forum member I decided to check it out.
    I found an ad titled "Plains Garter Snake wild caught juveniles and adults"
    Here's the pricing:
    $12.00 each 3/$11.00 each 6/$10.00 each 12/$9.00 each

    $9.00 for 12 snakes. Not much value there.

    I don't know but I can imagine how he obtains these snakes. He probably buys them by the bucket full from kids in the neighborhood.
    I didn't post this to trash the person selling the snakes but to draw attention to the possible damage being done to wild populations.
    If he's selling snakes this cheap the only way he's going to make any money is to sell large numbers. This in turn hurt those wild populations even more.
    I personally feel this is terrible.
    Sorry, I just had to vent.
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    Re: Damage To Wild Populations

    I've seen stuff like that. Especially with green snakes, and garters. It sucks

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    Re: Damage To Wild Populations

    Maybe he lives close to that garter snake house that was on the news.
    People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.

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    Re: Damage To Wild Populations

    Funny. (except those were wanderings)

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    Re: Damage To Wild Populations

    Quote Originally Posted by guidofatherof5 View Post
    I didn't post this to trash the person selling the snakes but to draw attention to the possible damage being done to wild populations.
    If he's selling snakes this cheap the only way he's going to make any money is to sell large numbers. This in turn hurt those wild populations even more.
    I personally feel this is terrible.
    Sorry, I just had to vent.
    what's worse is that at that price they probably end up as king snake feeders
    at the thought of that I feel so deflated that there's not much venting left in me
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    Re: Damage To Wild Populations

    Quote Originally Posted by drache View Post
    what's worse is that at that price they probably end up as king snake feeders
    at the thought of that I feel so deflated that there's not much venting left in me
    I never thought that they might be sold as food. Now I'm at another level of angry.
    I can't imagine some poor T. radix being used as food or any snake for that matter.
    I know it's done. I just don't like it.
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    Re: Damage To Wild Populations

    They do it with water snakes as well. I've seen several ads for wc water snakes under $5 a piece specifically being sold as feeders!
    I really have a problem with ppl selling wc animals... I mean, I know some people find really great specimens in the wild and want to breed them, and I don't really mind that but I don't like it when the primary animals sold are wc and not cb.
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    Re: Damage To Wild Populations

    Doing a little more investigation(force of habit). I've found out that the seller(she) is out of Florida.
    T. radix doesn't range into Florida.
    So she's got contacts in their natural range who are raiding populations.
    I'm not sure how else to word it. I know she has a business but once again it looks like money is the only driving force.
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    Re: Damage To Wild Populations

    I've seen that ad on kingsnake.com Is there anything we can do about this?

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    Re: Damage To Wild Populations

    Quote Originally Posted by guidofatherof5 View Post
    I never thought that they might be sold as food. Now I'm at another level of angry.
    I can't imagine some poor T. radix being used as food or any snake for that matter.
    I know it's done. I just don't like it.
    Quote Originally Posted by guidofatherof5 View Post
    Doing a little more investigation(force of habit). I've found out that the seller(she) is out of Florida.
    T. radix doesn't range into Florida.
    So she's got contacts in their natural range who are raiding populations.
    I'm not sure how else to word it. I know she has a business but once again it looks like money is the only driving force.
    What i was gonna say, i can't say. 'Cause there are mods on this forum.

    But yes. They sell snakes as food all the time. Banded water snakes, green snakes, I've seen LOTS of "food".

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