Hello all!!
Well, my name is Rebecca, I live near Vancouver BC Canada, I've been in the pet industry for about 12 years, many of these years I was managing the reptile sections of two stores. Thankfully both of my stores were of the specialty high end sort, so we made sure the staff was educated as possible and we did our best to ensure proper care, as well as keep updated as possible on new information coming out.
Recently I decided to switch careers
I am now a Vet receptionist/tech who maybe hopes to go to school to become a REGISTERED tech! I ADORE this job but missed my reptile life too much. A while ago I got a friend into the beginnings of a snake breeding business. His true love is the ball python and all morphs of them, however he was constantly being asked to supply different snakes and reptiles to stores and the general public. In BC many wholesaler have gotten out of the business due to the difficulty of actually doing it as a job full time, there was just not enough money.. So he and I are working together to create a business we hope will be viable enough for me to work at at least as a part time employee. We of course have big plans for the future, but don't want to talk about it too much as we may JINX ourselves!!
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Yet I digress... During my reptile career I was always frustrated as a buyer. There were just no different morphs available to the pet stores for decent prices. We had to at least DOUBLE the cost of the snake which meant even normals had to go for about $100. I feel that more people could see all the benefits of cornsnakes if the initial costs weren't quite so daunting. Also I feel that corns can be a bit like fish. Often once you have one, you are often interested in getting other morphs, then you realize how interesting breeding can become.. If these other morphs are ridiculously expensive it may disconcert or dissuade possible new hobbyists.
My plan is to build breeding stock of many different colour morphs then offer them to different hobbyists for the fair market value of the U.S. I will also offer to pet stores at reasonable prices for them to FAIRLY mark up. At this point I am now importing many snakes from popular high quality American breeders. I prefer the bloods and their morphs from Rich Hume. I would love to get some Kathy Love or Abbott okeetees and reverse okeetees, I hope to get some Miamis and crimsons from Carol <although I was very impressed with Serpencos this year!> From Serpenco I have gotten butters, caramel, butter motleys, etc. Anyway, this is the plan!
I don't have a website yet, but am hoping to take a local course on how to build and maintain one. At this point the costs of other people making sites is just too much, as so far I have been investing every penny I have <and don't have> into importing snakes.
I may have to take a giant slow down soon if things don't pick up, but we'll just deal with that as time goes by!
Well, that's about all I have to say, I'm glad that this site is here to let people who deal with me let others know about how I am to work with. I REALLY want to build a GREAT reputation and work with other high quality and important Canadian breeders! LET'S GET THOSE MORPHS UP HERE GUYS!!!
Sorry this was ridiculously long, but just so everyone knows, I am glad that people are now realizing that I'm not all bad, or out there to rip people off. I'm too naive and probably dumb <yes I'm blonde> It just takes too much effort to be an evil bad guy! lol
THANKS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE KIND SUPPORTIVE WORDS TO ME!!!
Sincerely,
Rebecca