Hey Kathy:

I BET I know where Don (and Rich and pat and MYSELF) might have got the idea that your reverse Okeetee cornsnakes were creams. I KNOW it is why I believe they are creams. I'm looking at your Oct06 article in reptiles right now. Page 59. The first complete paragraph talks about the LIGHT creams used to bred to Miami corns to produce your line of candycane corns. The second paragraph says "As babies, the background...." It is obvious that you mean the creamsicle / Candycane line from paragraph 1.

The third new paragraph on that page says "During the mid to late 1980s, we noticed a few specimens that possessed unusually large white borders....." These are what became your reverse Okeetee corns ACCORDING to that paragraph.

The term "specimens" is pretty much like a pronoun without an antecedent. Following the structure of the previous paragraph, the specimens referred to are the creamsicles OR, more likely, the candycanes. It is written a little vaguely, but that's the conclusion you pretty much have to draw based on the way this section is constructed. If your reverse okeetee cornsnakes ACTUALLY have no creamsicle blood in them, that was just a confusing way to construct that paragraph....and it must have sense caused you a LOT of unnecessary grief.

I do have a question for you (and I guess this is a good avenue to ask this question once and for all): was that just a misleading paragraph or did you use those candycanes to produce some of your reverse okeetee corns at all?

If you didn't use any candycanes / creamsicles to make your reverses, I apologize for ALSO believing that you did. I often showed the above article to people that didn't believe me. I don't feel like I ever INTENTIONALLY tried to misrepresent the origin of your reverse okeetee cornsnakes.

KJ
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KJUN Snakehaven

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