>> "I think you're assuming that most people are dishonest, when if fact it's probably only a small fraction of breeders who would knowingly label a hybrid as something it's not."


Wrong,.....it has absolutely nothing to do with dishonesty, OR honesty in most cases. However, what it DOES have EVERYTHING to do with, is what will happen to hybrid crosses, and certain man-made intergrades down the line as they get sold, and are bred with other animals.

I'm talking about what happens to the pure lines of animals in collections in the future,...not about some shlep at a show being sold a Puebladuran, instead of a Cornduran by some dude from a hybrid "snake-mill" that claimed it was something else, that has nothing to do with my point here at all.

If everyone had enough experience to know what they were looking at most of the time, it probably wouldn't be as bad as it is now,...but that certainly isn't the case. Many people in the hobby wouldn't know a pure species/subspecies of snake if it bit them right between the eyes!,...that's part of the very problem I'm referring to here.

Futhermore,....hybrids that look close, or very similar to a specific pure species, or subspecies of animal, tend to do the MOST damage to collections of inexperienced, or unsuspecting individuals that don't have a keen eye, and know for a fact what they have, and can and do end up being bred to whatever,...... and in turn, those offspring are sold as whatever, bought by whoever, and again the cycle is constantly repeated.

Very OBVIOUS crosses/hybrids, aren't quite as big of an immediate threat to the hobby,....initially that is, however, depending on what they are bred to later, and what THEIR offspring get bred to later on, and what they look like, and what they get sold as, and who breeds those to what, is a whole different story altogether.

As my first post CLEARLY stated,....when a VERY experienced herper CANNOT positively identify many of the snakes being bred today,.....THAT is the problem,.......meaning, if you cannot identify it, it is no longer ANYTHING,..... other than a "mutt" snake.

Hybrids hurt many pure lines eventually,.....pure lines CANNOT hurt hybrids,..as a matter of fact, hybrid breeders need animals of pure lineage to create hybrids in the first place,..otherwise, the hybridizer wouldn't even know what the crossed animal was a product of!.....THAT is true irony at it's best!..LOL!


best regards, ~Doug
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