Well the big pet chains do have a big collection of reptiles for sale, particularly snakes. They’re very popular in pet shops now. Most of these are captive bred. Captive breeding reptiles is commercial. In fact, many of these snakes are now called designer snakes. They’ve crossed six or eight different subspecies to produce color varieties that don’t occur in the wild. I was against that when I first became aware of it because I felt that the snakes should be kept in their purity as natural as they could be. But quite honestly, the captive-bred specimens and designer snakes had become so competitive in price that it’s taken the pressure off of collecting in the wild.
