Excellent points Roy! Thanks for taking the time to post in detail

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: : Being in this hobby over two decades now, I will try to explain. : : Many of us old timers still consider most reptiles to be "wildlife" : : Yes.. I'll say it again...."Wildlife"!! : : It's a priviledge to work with wildlife and not a right, so as such, we try to accept some degree of scientific responsibility for the specimens : : we hold captive. We also try to preach this gospel to the new comers but unfortunately it : : is falling on more and more deaf ears.What looks "cool" and what sells seems to always win out. : : Herpetoculture today, is full of hypocracy. Morphs of some species : : seem to be tolerated,and almost celebrated. Even some purists that preach ,selective breed(inbreed), and have and propogate the dreaded mutant : : albinos..why? because they're pretty,but we justify this by saying they at least do occur naturally.(whitewaters & Limburg coastals) : : Everyone seems to draw the line at a different place, depending on their own moral views. : : But if it's OK to cross locales, then why not cross species too, and breed rosies with Sand & Rubber boas, then what, maybe Candoia? : : Where would it all lead?? : to such a commonly asked question(by new guys) : Matt M : : After a few decades, people will have snakes with no valid recognizable taxonomy and providing reproductive : : failure doesn't occur, at the very least, the appearance of the offspring will be completely unpredictable. : : Some of us just think it would be a shame to reduce creatures that have evolved so beautifully over milleniums to just mixed : : up jumbles of aberrant DNA. : : : : Just my mixed up viewpoint and aberrant ramblings (;o)

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