Carol Huddleston has also breed and raised many countless aberrant patterned snakes that are absolutely fine, just like zillions of other people, including me. There are lots of health issues, and other problems stemming from a multitude of genetic reasons, but an aberrant pattern anomaly certainly ain't one of them. I have owned and bred countless snakes over the course of many years, and I've never seen any connection whatsoever with aberrant pattern being tied with a genetic defect.



I even agreed with the fact that there is TONS of stuff that isn't known about genetics, but I've seen way more normal patterned snakes that weren't quite right, or didn't survive as opposed to any pattern anomalies. This just isn't so.



Bug-eyedness with leucistic Texas?, definitely, and other things as well, but certainly not just because a snake has a weird pattern. Heck, if this was the case, three-quarters of all the snakes would be dead or screwed up. There are TONS of pattern/color mutations that have been bred for decades, and I have yet to hear of just ONE that was actually ever linked to a pattern anomaly.



If the poster read my post earlier, I mentioned the same dog traits that she did. Now being a vet tech, and around dogs and cats all the time, this is NO DOUBT where the idea started, because white haired dogs with pink skin very often have those problems with being deaf, etc..., but you cannot compare the apple to the orange, they just aren't the same thing at all, simple as that.



Here's a wacko aberrant hypo Honduran I have that is as healthy as an ox!



Oh, and do I have enough snake experience to be credible enough to voice such an opinion you might ask?,.....well, 42 years since 1967 should be enough experience I would think.





~Doug








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