kathiva
Kathiva La Diva
Hi
The reason why I am posting this is because I have been getting lots of e-mails lately about people wanting to get a breeding pair, and I mean, people that I know is either their first or second time purchasing a chinchilla because they have said it.
For example, I got an e-mail lately about purchasing a female chinchilla, which I said that there might be chances that she is pregnant that's why I would need to think about selling her or not at the moment, and would actually rather not sell her if she was, but as soon as I mentioned that she was with a male a few weeks ago and now she is being housed alone, the person wanted to know if I could sell the male with her, and I said no, because I didn't want to sell that male and then she wanted to know if I had a breeding pair for sale.
Well I said that I did not feel comfortable in selling breeding pairs because I didn't know if the person had enough experience with chinchillas and with breeding them so I refused to sell to this person. I tried to offer to sell just the female or maybe a pair of the same sex, but the person said that she would look somewhere else.
Do you guys think that I have been doing right in not selling breeding pairs? I know I could also sell the one male or one female and they would still get a mate, but I figured that at least I won't be responsible for selling them a pair and then they don't know what to do.
How do you guys handle customers like that? Do you think that these people will end up doing competition with you and do a lot of backyard breeding? or do you think that they should still get some help and educate them a bit about breeding chins?
thanks
The reason why I am posting this is because I have been getting lots of e-mails lately about people wanting to get a breeding pair, and I mean, people that I know is either their first or second time purchasing a chinchilla because they have said it.
For example, I got an e-mail lately about purchasing a female chinchilla, which I said that there might be chances that she is pregnant that's why I would need to think about selling her or not at the moment, and would actually rather not sell her if she was, but as soon as I mentioned that she was with a male a few weeks ago and now she is being housed alone, the person wanted to know if I could sell the male with her, and I said no, because I didn't want to sell that male and then she wanted to know if I had a breeding pair for sale.
Well I said that I did not feel comfortable in selling breeding pairs because I didn't know if the person had enough experience with chinchillas and with breeding them so I refused to sell to this person. I tried to offer to sell just the female or maybe a pair of the same sex, but the person said that she would look somewhere else.
Do you guys think that I have been doing right in not selling breeding pairs? I know I could also sell the one male or one female and they would still get a mate, but I figured that at least I won't be responsible for selling them a pair and then they don't know what to do.
How do you guys handle customers like that? Do you think that these people will end up doing competition with you and do a lot of backyard breeding? or do you think that they should still get some help and educate them a bit about breeding chins?
thanks