Hi!
> So why charge more? It's not like a
> high price would serve as a deterrent for bad homes--look how many
> people buy $500 dogs and then dump them. If they don't care, they just
> don't care.
That's right. Chinchillas cost a lot more than gerbils but are dumped at
shelters in masses (well, at least I know hardly of a shelter that
doesn't have at least 2 or more).
I agree however that from the average customer you should ask some
money. I had some weird calls from people (mostly kids) when I offered
young rats for free. Not that they wanted them as feeders. But they were
obviously impulse buyers who hadn't planned ahead at all.
> Besides I like to think I manage to weed that type out
> anyway.
Yeah, that's the spirit! :-))))
May I add that the only gerbils I ever paid any money for are Helge,
Vicco and Frosch (about 3 dollars each). I like them better than all my
other gerbils but that's only because they have great personalities, not
because they were more expensive ;-) Basically my gerbils are all
treated the same. Wait a minute. How comes that Helge, Vicco and Frosch
have the biggest cages?!? I must change that or I will be suspected of
neglecting my cheap shelter gerbils. ;-)
Eva
P.S. Whenever I gave away a pet it was always for free and only to
friends or people I could really trust. Precondition was that they offer
them a better home than I could. So I guess I wouldn't sell an animal in
any case.
