Originally Posted by Athravan

I buy and sell for a business, but this year I sold some of the corns I'd bought for myself, not for the business... and it's been breaking my heart. One of the corns I was so upset after I sold her I had to buy her back!

I don't really understand how if people buy animals for themselves, they then go on and sell them. Everything in my personal collection I buy with the intention of keeping for life and when my health made me sell some of them this year - I sold the babies that I hadn't formed an attachment too yet quite so much, but even one of the yearlings I had to have back (thankfully the buyer was understanding).

But on the flip side, I run a shop, I buy animals in for the shop and I sell them usually without blinking an eye (but I sell them knowing that they are going to the correct homes..)... and some people view their personal life like that too, no attachment at all.

I've actually been upset at customers too - once had a chameleon in for 6 months in the shop, and I did get attached to him, so was considering not selling him. Nice family came, really wanted him, spent a small fortune on his enclosure, so I thought, better let him go, good family, more attention, he's not yours to keep.... a month later they come back in "no, we sold him, he was too expensive to keep", and I was absolutely heartbroken because now I've no idea who has him, or how they're caring for him

I think I'm a bit too emotional about reptiles if anything... I wish I could be a bit more callous

It does annoy me a bit, although I'm a shop - I'm a pet shop. I like to think that I am selling a pet that like a cat or a dog is going to fill a small hole in someones life, and every animal I sell I like to think of having a long and happy life in the correct environment. If people just resell them straight away then it is simply not good for the animals involved.