You will find that most people are against hybrids.



My personal reason why I don't like them is because I spend time in the field. When you do that, you come to appreciate how creatures (not just snakes) are adapted to live in their specific environments.



To take a corn snake and a California kingsnake - two species seperated by hundreds of miles, and having very different lifestyles - and cross them is, in my opinion, an insult to nature.



While the increase in keeping reptiles is a good thing, unfortunately many newcomers have never seen a snake outside of a deli cup at a reptile show. For this reason they think deli cups are perhaps a snake's natural environment and see no harm in mix-and-matching them.



I think that is a shame.



In addition, the vast majority of hybrids are ugly. Yes, I've seen some striking examples every now and then, but they are few and far between.



On of my favorite lines from Jurassic Park is when the Jeff Goldblum character says "You spent all this time asking 'can we do it,' but you never stopped to wonder 'SHOULD we do it.'"



Tim



P.S. - HerpZillA, all domestic dogs are the same species - they're not hybrids.

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