I have never bought a snake or any animal for that matter that came with "paperwork" so I don't know what this paperwork entitles. The only real referance I have is reading about paperwork included with pure bred dogs and cats. From what I understand is this type of paperwork includes the names and owner information of the particular animals ancestry. IT would have the names of say, the puppies parents, their status and current ownership (at the time of purchase of the pup that is) plus same info on the grandparents and great grand parents of the pup on both sides. It would also include organizational membership and list of prices/ribbons etc (ie best of show, best breed etc, AKC (American Kennel Club) affliation etc.



With snakes, there is no American Snake Club or other governing body determining what each morph should look like, what traits designate the 'ideal' snake of each species, morph etc. So no way to include any of this info in paperwork. Bloodlines and original developer of a particular morph is really all thats available. Tracing a snake to a certain bloodline or originator of a particular morph, can be beneficial, if it can be backed up with a way to varify it. I can sell a normal store bought snake as a het, and give all kinds of paperwork indicating the snake's great grand parents were NERD line etc...but if I don't include anyway to varify that, it's just worthless paperwork. Even if the paperwork is completely authentic,how would anybody know for certain?



I think the paperwork should have contact information for the breeders it's line comes from. IE. If say, I bought a NERD line snake, bred it to a bunch of other snakes, and sold it's offspring and grand offspring, the paperwork should indicate that the Grand Father came from NERD (listing his parents and as far back from there as possible), and the parentage of the female etc down to the baby snake I am selling. ALso, all current owners of each snake directly involved should also be included, as well as contact information (breeder identification codes should be used too, if possible or available, even if it's just the name of the snakes).



All this requires good record keeping and maintaining contact with the people a breeder buys their snakes from and who they sell to, if needed.



From what I understand for snake paperwork, it is more a record of how often it feeds, what dates it shed, the dates each meal is taken, records of any treatments etc. What does such paperwork really tell us anyway? That the snake eats, drinks, sheds and poops normally?
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