Thanks for your input here bluerosy.
I think we are saying the same thing. My point was I think it is perfectly fine to hybridize our animals if we choose. My point was that you and I have the same definition of "pure" but most others do not. Just ask every breeder at the next expo you go to. Ask the breeder of the snow corn if his corns are "pure corns" Ask the thayeri and ruthveni breeder if their lines are "pure". Almost without exception, we are led to believe that everyone has "pure" lines of snakes. What you and I believe is that at this point in our hobby (or profession if that fits you), there is no such thing as a pure bloodline of snake. I have been in this hobby now for over 20 years so I was around before most of the morphs came about. How many documented cases of wild caught morphs or true captive mutations have you heard of. They obviously do happen, but not nearly as many times as we have morphs available in the hobby. Because they have been crossed, recrossed, and recrossed again. Intra and Interspecies crosses. The point I think we may disagree on is that I think there do exist some truly "pure bloodlines" of snakes in our hobby. Where we do agree however, is that it is impossible to document them. Thanks for the discussion, Ive been waiting for some intelligent discussion on this for a while
Shane

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