Ok, there are many people that do exactly what you say and collect their own and breed locality animals collected themselves or purchased from trusted sources and bloodlines.

There are people that collect and breed snakes for a certain look or mutation, designer animals if you will.

I like both,I have both in my collection.

To be honest my opinion is the locality animals are very important for a large number of reasons.

For an example there might be a time when a certain species is threatened or endangered or collection and importation is illegal for other reasons. It would be essential for hobbyists to have those given species available in captivity in its wild type.

You agree with that at least, right?

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