We keep thayeri though John, which were probably of mixed decent to begin with - you had pure ones? I have to laugh these folks that have this awesome snake and suddenly they find out that either a) it wasn't what they thought it was or b) there was no way to trace the snake back to the wild and all the sudden they didn't like their snake anymore, or it isn't fun anymore and it's all Joe's fault because he won't put me on the locality alterna breeder's list.

I have a couple really cool snakes that I have no idea where they came from, but I'm not posting them as pure thayeri. What is a pure thayeri? One from TAMPS? One from Chorro, or one from Aramberri? Or Maybe none of those? BTW a name is a line and not a locality, so who cares if it came from Lemke, or Ruiz, or Vivid, none of those are localities.

The problem I think is people spending too much time on the internet. These are live animals, the owners need to release the stigma attached to line bred snakes or snakes which without traceable origins.

Now if a single person would show some freaking documentation to back something up once in a while, that would be too good. No - we just have some BS story about a Geologist who was cruising through the glass mtns one night and found three alterna in one night. right.... Oh I forgot his name too....

cough cough BS

Fine write the freaking story down so when your friend Todd tells it to a customer and says it was him catching the alterna down by Big Bend Joe won't have to call BS when you change the name and date a little bit to make a few sales.

That's the kind of Bull that takes the fun out of it.

I still think these folks don't even like snakes, they just see dollar signs and want to make money. Is that why you are so attracted to abnormal or aberrant specimens? My absolute favorite snake is one I got from Greg because it's a carbon copy of a snake I flipped a couple years ago down there. Only half the lineage traceable, so what???

I know you really like the snakes John, and not in it just for money, but it's really obvious those dealers that are not like you.
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