I think you're missing a couple of important points here guys.



1) Lots of these people you're ridiculing might never have had the opportunity to get in the field or become acquainted with reptiles had it not been for the proliferations of cb herps. I can remember a day when what I could find was limited and what was in the pet stores was crap. Just trying to say that for a lot of people the hobby has advanced and provided opportunity not degraded. It might not be what you remember but many who where lucky enough to grow up where they had access to cool herp populations seem to have forgotten how fortunate they were or are.



2) Be thankful not everyone into this is hitting the field! I've seen and heard of too many sites being wrecked by over collection and poor field etiquette. Think what it would be like if everyone who travelled to Daytona hit and ripped up Okeetee on the way home. Even in the west where there is tons of habitat accessible habitat is limited.



3) Time was this was a pretty tight community. If you liked snake you were in and let’s face it, most of us don’t fit in real well elsewhere. Now the community has more than its fair share of snobs. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen a kid’s enthusiasm for herps dashed because some butthole had to make a negative comment like “cream cycle corns are hybrid trash man”.



I think the future of the hobby will be in the hands of a few large scale breeders who will work the numbers. Because of the internet there will also be a few nitch breeders and I think locality will play into this but even there the motivation to hold back and produce specimens that are remarkable standouts will subvert the process as much as morph production has.
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