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bbox
at Thu Oct 15 14:50:30 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by bbox ]
Several people have made good points. I will relate this to trees. Besides being an alterna fanatic, I am also into native plants. Before I will put a plant in my yard, I want to know where the seeds were collected (if you think getting good locality alterna is tough, try getting locality data on a tree!). I know that I can go down to my local nursery and get tree that will probably do just as well, if not better, in my yard than a tree from a verifiable location. But that is not what I want. Just like with alterna, I can tell someone exactly where the parent plant is located and often have photographs of the particular tree. This may seem anal to some, but it is what I want. If it doesn't bother you that Walmart has no idea where the acorns for the red oak they have for sale came from, then buy that tree. The problem comes when you gather acorns from that tree and try to sell it as a "Clay county, TX Red Oak". The point is, don't misrepresent your animals and keep good documentation if you want to call your snakes locality. If not, call them "Lantry type" or "Gap like" animals. Honestly, most people who buy them do not care, but for those that do, it is the only thing to do. BTW, if you are selling "Langty type" animals, you are NOT a locality breeder.
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RE: thought on the locality discussions - bbox, Thu Oct 15 14:50:30 2009