[spinnin_tom]

3. If it's so bad that I can't trust someone I know well - and I can't provide adequate care for it myself.... then it will be humanely euthanised.

really?
surely if it came to that, you'd want to rehome her, just to give it a life !!

 

[spinnin_tom]

I do not believe in "life at all costs".

If there is such a huge reason that the animal absolutely must never ever have the slightest chance of entering the gene pool that I can't trust someone else to take the animal on - AND there's a huge reason that I can't keep the animal myself, whether it needs expensive vet care or requires more time to care for it than my partner and I can provide / caring for it would be at the expense of healthy animals' care - then there is something so wrong with it that it is likely that the animal is suffering.

even if somebody can care for it, that you don't know well??
i can understand euthanasia if the animal is suffering and vet bills are too expensive

 

[spinnin_tom]

How do I know that "random person who wants an animal for pet homes only" is actually going to stick to "for pet only" when in many cases it is not possible to spay/neuter the animal?

See, I also believe that, as a breeder/keeper, I have the responsibility to improve the overall gene pool. If a specific animal will not contribute to the overall health (not colour, not morph, but HEALTH) except in a negative way, I believe that the welfare of the captive gene pool trumps the ongoing life of a single animal with a defect.

But then, I have no intrinsic objection to using defrost reptiles as feeders either. There's no practical difference to euthanising THIS mouse to use for a feeder because it's got a wonky leg and euthanising THAT corn snake to use as a feeder because it's got a severely kinked spine... either way you're choosing which animals go on to contribute to the gene pool and which animals are food for others.

i see what you mean now
see i suppose i was the bambi effect was setting in on me, i couldn't see why euthanize the animal if it's still living. now it's been explained, i understand and at least some animals still have a use once dead

thanks for taking the time to explain that