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Tony D
at Wed Aug 26 14:05:16 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Tony D ]
and you would be free to do so! The problem comes in when those who choose an alternate path are inevitably portrayed (by some) as morally reprehensible for continuing to produce more possible hybrids. Nobody of course admits to doing this but neither do they call down those who do. When it comes to ethics silence implicates.
I don't want anyone to get me wrong here. I love wild types and if I were not to some level still engaged in the marketing of captive bred snakes that is all I'd keep. The problem for me however is that the pheno and genotypes of snakes loose their context in captivity. I completely understand the locality thing IF one wishes to organize their collection in that manner but in the end its simply a personal preference no different from alternatively deciding to keep all the morphs of bull snakes. In the end its nothing worth getting panties all wadded up over.
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RE: I would love to be able to scrap it all - Tony D, Wed Aug 26 14:05:16 2009