"Not sure if its irresponsibility or just plain old ingnorance driving these things these days. Its been discussed before and my opinion is there is a whole slew of deli cup herpers who know no better. They see crazy morphs, hybrids, sensationalism. Most are probably just following the flow ahd hype they witness at the herp shows"



Actually, your above statement summed it up perfectly in my opinion. It is certainly a combination of all those things.



The term ..."monkey see, monkey do" applies perfectly in this case. If people knew more about the in-depth natural history of many of the snakes they keep, this practice wouldn't be NEARLY as common today,....they would appreciate these snakes and their individual specific/subspecific characteristics for exactly what the are. Hey, certainly nothing wrong with morphs either here and there, as I have quite a few of those too, but they are still the exact same species/ssp. I started with.





~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"



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