You know, a significant part of my job is identifying and fighting Heresy. As a Pastor, this is normal work. So I hope you will forgive me for spouting heresy with regard to the Herp HOBBY. In our HOBBY our charges are so much more than how much they cost and whether or not we can sell them!!!! Beauty/desirability is in the eye of the beholder. Personally, being the village idiot, I can't really tell the difference between most of the $1000 Ball Pythons and a lot of normal Ball Pythons. But then I'm not interested in Designer Ball Pythons. But I can appreciate a good looking specimen. And I will fight for the rights of folks to keep and breed the things!!! Now here comes the Heresy--If Doug came up to me and offered me a Leusistic Texas Rat and Bob came up to me and offered to give me a Leusistic Ball Python, I'd take the Rat!!!!! (OK, so I'm Prejudice but afterall I am a Texan!!!) Right now the snake I'm anxious to get a shot at in the future are a pair of Doug M's locality Green Obsoleta when he gets them to breed. I know that makes me appear crazy to most, if not all, Python breeders. But that's the point. We, as HOBBYISTS, all have different reasons for what we keep. As for not being able to sell all the kids, I have given away more snakes than I have sold. And I don't have a bit of trouble dealing with culls!!!(Here comes more Heresy!) I have a pair of Black getula that are more than happy to dine on any other snake I toss into their cages!!! That's a whole lot more than $0.02 but then no one has ever accused this Preacher of being short winded!!!!



Shalom,

Pat G-C

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