Work with what you want to work with and call it what it is. If you enjoy it then everybody else can just choke on it. All I ask of anybody is do a little research on anything you want to work with so you have that data to pass along to anybody interesting in offspring you produce. If they do not like or do not trust something up the line, then they have the very simple option to pass...



Unfortunately they can also get on the forum and speculate about your motives, honesty and moral character. They can also exclude you from the "Recommended" breeders list. I think it patently unfair that anyone who has played by the rules is suddenly the opposite of recommended becasue that don't have photographic evidence that could be fudged anyway.



Locality to me is a simple devise to help me determine what phenotype I can expect from future generations. In every case, I take the data with a grain of salt not only because of human error (and potential misrepresentations) but because what we see phenotypically from these localities is a mere fraction of what is there not to mention the potential of what might emerge once animals are removed and bred in artificial environments.



I understand that there are those who take the concept a "bit" further, and that is fine, but to push to establish a list of like minded breeders as "Recommended" strikes me as arrogant. Preferred by who and based on what. Don't know about everyone else but a lot more goes into who I do business or trade with than my perception of the quality of the data they offer.


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