Good points, Tony. It occurs to me there're two sorts of problems or potential problems: Those generated by fears from outside our community, about our animals, and those that should be generated by concerns from insideour community, in order to protect in the wild the animals we value so highly. Maybe, even, to protect our right to keep them, by avoiding overreactions like the proposed python regulation.

We've been almost entirely silent about that second type of concern. Maybe that's appropriate. But maybe it's not and we'll look back someday and wish we'd been proactive about self-regulating these sorts of issues, too. For example:
--should it be illegal to release a captive-produced hybrid in the wild?
--should it be illegal to release a captive-bred colubrid in an area in which it is not found?
--should it be illegal to release a captive-bred colubrid in an area in which it is native?
--should it be illegal to release a wild-caught colubrid in a different area? In an area where it's not normally found?

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