I agree. However this could be said about any pet short of a dog or cat. This being said dogs and cats where breed throughout the years for us by us.
My personal opinion is someone who takes in a new animal is truly fascinated by it and its behavior. They want to learn about it, they want to spend time with it, and they want some sort of interaction with it. Again in my opinion this is the way the ball falls no pun intended.....
If problems arise due to stress in a snake’s case, I would point to handling, poor habitat, and things of that nature...
A good owner should know and understand the snake and its actions/behavior and recognize problems/stress and take the needed action even if this means not handling the snakes for months and months.
I am doing the best to learn all I can and treat my snake well, however handling the snake is important to me. If I do see issues I will keep the words of James in mind...
In my case this poor girls was at the local petshop with no hide away or anything.. just a stick and a bowl of water.. I am sure it was being held daily if not multiple times a day.. I feel like I did her a favor
All though on the flip side of that it is sucker assholes like me who keep the animals going to petstores like this. There was another one there yesterday and I almost bought her to
I felt bad....
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...who knows people are breeding balls like crazy maybe someday they will roll over and take a bone
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