"Interesting topic. I think the question is, "Do you trust the breeder to be honest about what he's representing?" "



Terry I don't even know if a person who is across the ocean would know what he is representing. Like the guys in the Green Tree Python market who want to know a locale of a given snake when there is no way for the average GTP to be tracked to its point of origin. The fact is most traffic (overseas) back and forth is through wholesalers and they just move animals without the slightest concern for where they are from. Whether it is ball pythons or rat snakes or anything else, there is very little done to make sure a given animal is what it is supposed to be.



I have been in wholesalers shops in Florida and corrected them on what they had. I also had a wholesaler have me name a local for a GTP because he had no idea where it was from. I didn't either but it was sold as what I said it was.



I am not saying there is a big conspiracy or anything. I am not even saying that the new morphs we see are not what they are supposed to be. I am just saying that the numbers of US animal morphs that pop up in Europe is curious to me. I am sure that there is one or more that is the result of a hybrid animal, I also know that we have the same problem here in the states. It is just a bit curious is all.



Later Jason

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