I have been posting for a decade that the time has come to breed and release the Indigo and Pinesnake into prime and newly aquired lands/habitat, but the AR feds have been claiming that pathogens are a threat to other sp. in the area, nonsense! I have been a collector 25 years and never seen a snake die from being exposed to another, sometimes I collect 50 ratsnakes and most get stuffed into the same bag and none of my customers ever called me to say they're snake died, besides if the last remaining few did die the newly released individuals would take over the gene pool in that habitat, but I comend them for comming around to reason, but I would add that local breeders of snakes in Fla, Gorgia and Alabama should be required to breed at least one sp. of concern for the sole purpose of releasing to newly aquired lands by the FWC or the feds. ...Thanks for the link that made my day.

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