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mbrawley
at Tue May 17 14:01:35 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by mbrawley ]
Don't do it man! And here's why:
"Please don't do it, Steve. Study your two different animals closely and appreciate their natural beauty. Imagine the times when herpetologists have lifted a rock or walked through a field and seen snakes exactly like yours in their wild, natural habitat. Over time, I think--and hope--your recognition of their differences will grow, you'll respect their individual qualities, and decide not to muddle that by mixing them into something that's neither. Then you can find suitable matches for them and get the good feeling that comes from perpetuating something that developed in nature over eons. Then the babies you produce--like the ones you own now--will be direct links to animals in the wild.
Put another way: Are you glad you know the exact identity of your two snakes? Would it disappoint you to find out one or both of them is really a mix, and not the snake you believe it to be? That someone else may show you a genuine sinaloan, and you'd have to say, "well, mine's a mix, and not all of its siblings might have looked like this, and its babies may not look like this even if it were bred to a genuine sinaloan, but..." If it would bother you to have to explain that whenever you show your snakes, or to have someone reject yours as a mate for their sinaloan because yours is a mix, that's a clue to the fact that you don't really want to cross yours now. Every time someone hybridizes a pair of snakes they create mish-moshes ALL of whose progeny will be forever separated from the special and genuine character of the parents. You'll get different opinions here. I hope you'll consider this one."
- rtdunham, Tue May 17 10:50:22 2011
Although I wish I could take credit for this brilliant, and articulate explanation, I cannot. It would be wrong for me to do such a thing, much like like breeding sinaloans and thayeri together, and I just won't do that. I'm a man of honor and integrity.......LOL
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