Touchy subject. I guess you didn't read my warning several posts earlier. (Sorry inside joke) I don't have a real problem with some intergrades or hybrids as long as there's honesty. Problem is I can be 100% truthful and the guy I sell to is not or doesn't care. I have very mixed feelings about this whole subject and have actually flipped flopped back and fourth. I think that purists who are trying to keep things pure will only buy from another breeder whom they trust and usually who doesn't have any hybrids in their collection at all. This is at least my observations. If you even smile at a hybrid the purists won't buy squat from you. I am actually glad there are people like this who insist on purity so we can have some expectation that there are actually pure lines out there. Indeed I believe there are many which come from Lemke and beard and Love to name a few. How provable is it that the one I buy is actually from those sources? You have to trust the seller! Plain and simple. There are Mexicana and Alterna Breeders who will only buy amongst themselves in order to attempt to maintane their stock pure. I think I can own both and label them truthfully as best I can. I would not hesitate to buy a Brooks X Blaze Goins mix. But I do shutter at buying a Brooks X Rat snake mix. That's just me. The average kid or even adult who just wants a pet snake or two will not pay hundreds to be able to say my snake is pure! But a serious collector will. It's like dogs I guess. If you want to breed them and be able to say my babies are a champion blood than your gonna pay big bucks for that. Dogs at least come with papers but believe me papers can be falsefied at most Kennels. My wife breeds Chihuahua's and it would be easy to cheat. We don't but we could. I think most of the old timers have a good sense for what is real and what is BS. You can sometimes look at an animal and tell it's a mix, other times it's not so easy. If all people were honest we would not have a problem, but even Scientists have been known to falsify data in order to gain notoriaty and funding, so we do our best. In some cases a lot of these Purists actually go out and catch their stock. Let's see how long this one gets?
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