** QUOTE **I do agree that if you offer the "perfect" BCC that had "mixed" blood that most people probably wont sweat it too much. I do feel strongly that there are a whole lot of them that need that lable, if that is not true we would see a lot more people representing their animals as BCC....yourself included.

That would be one way to bring back a lot from the old days when we had shield BCC and basin BCC and that was too easy, I ask if you changed marketing you Surinam's as such and called them shield BCC how do you think that would effect your business if at all? I think almost all would ask you are they Guyana or Suriname.

Joel

It is rare that I have anyone go into allot of rigaramore, about me PROVING without a reasonable doubt that what they are buying, is Surinmame or Guyana.

I have nothing to hide and simply represent my animals " the way they were represented to me. "

In the end, most all are still looking for that " particular look and flavor of the day. "

Joel, I am really trying to not sweat the small stuff these days and so I give people the information that I got on the animals that I keep and sell and if it is not good enough, oh well.

O.C.D. behavior, has gotten less and less attractive to me these days and could very well put me back to needing an extended vacation from not the snakes, but the Hobby itself again.

In a perfect world, I would be a millionaire and have a collection of documented " meaning actuall paperwork " Boas from every Locality I could fund a trip to go too and get the permits or pay off the government to allow me to collect and be one of those collectors that never gets on forums or talks to people.

However, the world is not perfect and me and you are not perfect and their sure as heck no such thing as the perfect LOOKING Boa.

The Locality thing, does not bother me near as much as it use to.

My beef, is not the Marketing labels that we put on these Boas.

My beef, is that we have become so rediculous, that we put all of our desires for these animals, based mostly and sometimes even solely, on their aesthetic qualities and the rest go to the trash heap.

I do not worry about any of this affecting me as far as these Labels.

I realize more every day; " nothing has to affect you, unless you allow it to and give it power to grow! "

It is all about perception....Hmmm, perceptions.

Take Care, John J

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