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Originally Posted by Dbutton
I don't understand how it caused most of the snakes that were produced to be abused. I have seen just as many abused rat snakes, rattlers, cobras and boas out there. It doesn't matter what species it is, some idiot will buy it and abuse it. The Albino burm did give the herp world a financial boost, I will not argue that. And there had never been snakes that sold for thousands of dollars before that. I have a 12 year old (on July 4th) male albino burm that is far from abused. Had him since he was a 12 hour old hatchling and he has not known a bad day in his life. I do know that the burm has been dubbed the first "domestic" snake and that many people get them without really knowing how big they get. But if I were to pick an overyly bred snake it would have to be the redtail boa. They were in the pet trade long before the burm started getting popular and I see just as many of them at reptile rescue sites as I do burms. I do agree with on the green iguana issue though. They are the sadest and most abused creatures in any arena of the pet trade.
David
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The thing is it's way harder to find a home for a snake the size of a burm then it is a RTB.
*You* might have given the adult burm a great home (I would give any animal I aquire a good home too) but you have to admit you are in the minority.
Most people who end up with these huge baby snakes have no idea what they are getting into....even rescues can't handle the burms the end up with....heck my local zoo looks like they are in over their head.
I see a few like you--then I see 5 more like the idiots I have seen elsewhere who think it's a cool thing to have big snake until it gets big. Then it's being neglected, given up or let go.
Yeah all animals can be abused---corns, turtles, waterdragons etc--but Burms and Iguanas have gotten the limelight for a reason---they are the top 2.
