"If people can't tell piebald from pied-sided bloods, or have not heard of stargazing, how am I supposed to know how "experienced" you are?"





Well, I can assure you that all of us here that have been commenting on this have heard of ALL those things you mentioned, and know the differences of all the above too, and a whole lot more for that matter. I seriously doubt there are too many people in the entire world out there that know a whole lot more than I do about snakes(since 1967). I mean, I guess you could give me a snake quiz if you want to see if I am worthy of commenting about this..LOL! And of course I don't know everything about them, and neither does anybody else on this planet, it's absolutely impossible. And all the other's that have made comments about this have TONS of experience as well(decades), I know this for an absolute fact, and have known and corresponded with them about snakes for years.



We totally understand that there are a lot of things that are very unknown regarding genetics, we are the very first to admit this, and there is ALWAYS the possibility of certain undesirable traits or characteristics going in tandem with others, how could there NOT be, this is just basic common sense to me??. We are simply telling you what we know, and have seen over the several decades we've been involved with snakes.

We could continue to speculate all sorts of bad scenario's all day long, but all we are simply trying to say is that probably 99% of any genetic problems have nothing to do with aberrant patterns, the other one rercent very well could, who knows. And not just corns, but MOST snakes too, that is all we are trying to get across here.



This will be my last comment about it, as I don't see a need to continue beating a dead horse corpse over it, so I will just leave it at that.



BTW, I would totally enjoy someone giving me a snake quiz, I think that would be lots of fun. Any quiz I have ever done regarding them was FAR to basic, and geared way to much towards the everyday general public I can't even remember a snake quiz that I didn't get a perfect score on either. Now I on the other hand could give a snake quiz that would boggle most peoples mind, and I'm quite certain many would fail miserably to be quite honest. This would be a good way of seeing how much people do, or don't know, but it would also prove quite embarassing to some too.



BTW, we are certainly not saying your odd patterned corn isn't, or can't have any defect(s) either, we are simply stating what we know over the course of many years.





best regards, ~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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