You are right and I certainly don't want to down play the importance and great strides that folks like you (and I and many others) have done with captive breeding. There's no doubt that we wouldn't have the quality that we have today if it wasn't for captive breeding. But, I suppose, that there just seems to be a flooded market of BURMESE pythons....it is a much different ball game than say, olive pythons, carpet pythons, bloods, borneos, etc. That is really my biggest concern....just too many burms and not enough GOOD responsible homes for them (even if someone is willing to pay a big price). Yes, I am aware of the various market variables; if we stop breeding burms, we can and will import them, get inferior quality and bad tempers and on and on. I simplified the problem quite a bit in order to make my point but I realize that it is a VERY complex issue. It just frightens me a bit to see how many burms, retics, rocks, anacondas are produced on an annual basis when we barely have enough good homes for the ones that are abandoned. So, keep up your hard work and visionary ideas...I really do hope that they pan out and perhaps influence other breeders of giant snakes. That's the kind of out of the box thinking that could make positive changes.



Take care, Rob

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