Am I to understand from your argument that you feel that the current imports are under some kind of control???



I see no such hope from where I stand, but perhaps someone who knows the dark side of this trade better than I can enlighten me.



I personally feel like we shouldn't be importing ANY more ball pythons, with the possible exception of the guys who want to spend some seriously big bucks for any wild caught oddball/morph INDIVIDUAL snakes. I don't think there is any kind of a case for an argument that the current captive population would be limited in its genetic diversity by cutting off WC imports.



I know that the reptile trade itself would not exist without first being established by WC imports (or for the corn snake enthusiasts, just backyard WC)... but there should be some kind of a logical cut off, ya know? We don't NEED to import more BPs; there are probably more captive BPs being produced annually at this point than there are WILD BPs left to hatch on their own!



This is a bit of a sore spot for me, so sorry I kinda flew off the handle folks. Long live the CB Ball Python trade!



~Rebecca
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0.1 Dumeril's Boa '04 (Courtney)

1.2 Ball Pythons

[1.0 '05 Orange Hypo (Specter)]

[0.1 '05 Het Orange Hypo (Sylvia)]

[0.1 '03 Normal (Sue)]

0.2 American Pit Bull Terriers (40lb darling lap dogs:Brandy&Mara)

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