>> "If a guy is enough of a novice that he doesn't know what he has or where it came from, I don't have to worry about the genes in his snakes because they are not making their way into my collection."





True!,...maybe not immediately,...but years down the road(like me and other's keep mentioning), and more back-breedings to the "target" species/ssp,.....don't be so sure of THAT either!..people acquire stuff from all sorts of different sources given enough time and generations. Even extremely experienced people can assume something is "genuine" if it "looks" good enough.



The dynamics of exactly how this works and evolves itself, is an ugly "wheel" that will NEVER stop turning now that it has the amount of momentum it does.....this will never get any better,...just MUCH WORSE!





best regards, ~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

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