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ratsnakehaven
at Sat Mar 18 08:57:29 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ratsnakehaven ]
Interesting topic. I think the question is, "Do you trust the breeder to be honest about what he's representing?"
We have the same problem in the U.S. We can trust the breeder, or not. Personally, I prefer to work with locality animals or stock from someone who I know well and highly trust. When someone asks me what I have, I feel I need to go back to the origins of the snake and explain how I developed it, one step at a time. So, I believe in documenting everything. I prefer creating my own lines of snakes rather than starting with a variety or morph from unknown origins.
As an additional thought, I believe there's a lot of hybrids in the hobby, which may or may not be diluting the pure genes of some species, and I think it's difficult to i.d. hybrids a lot of the times. No offense was intended to anyone or was any one particular snake being referred to.
TC
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