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Whenever people make generalizations, there are always exceptions. Many times snakes can eliminate parasites that don't have a direct life cycle if they're not re-exposed to the intermediate host. Sometimes wild snakes are just as healthy as captive born ones. This is not always the case, though. When someone has already established a collection and has invested time, money, and emotion into their pets, and then a wild snake brings parasites/pathogens into the collection (usually due to inadequate quaratine techniques), it creates such a negative experience that people swear away from keeping wild caught snakes at all.

When wild snakes become the source for the pet trade industry, it can severely limit the population size of the wild snakes. This has been proven over and over again, but if an individual takes a few snakes, it doesn't have the same impact as an individual who supplies a nation.