Well, first Thanks for that picture.



My first impression was, hmmmmmmmmmmm maybe they were right, but I need to see more. It appeared it could be a hybrid.



Please understand, I will need to see more. But being a calking/ratsnake is a tiny bit off base.



You should consider that I do not care if they were hybridized or not. I just wondered where the intermediates were. As they should be around and surface commonly.



The only problem I find really odd is, why do certain people want to prevent me from seeing for myself. Why do you and others think I should take what any of you say as fact. The point is, I don't take it as lies or truth, its just casual or hearsay, information.



When working with animals, the truth is always with the animal.



Lets use field work for example. We always read or hear information, then we observe whats occuring in the field. When reading or hearing that information, its not about judging or believing that information. Its simply information to use as a reference if needed or appliable, to the information gained in the field.



The information recieved in the field is REAL, information heard or read is secondary to what is real.



So hearing your opinions was fine, but indeed secondary to seeing the actual animals.



So listening to you guys painted a very unstable confused picture of what that animal was. The only course of action I can take is to omitt that hearsay and look at the subject, the animals in question.



Truthfully, even the pictures may not be able to express the truth. But the may, on the otherhand.



This picture did not appear to be pure calking or pure fla.



I was hoping to make more out of head shape and body shape as you cannot count scales in most pictures.



So, this animal appeared to be more of a WS Blackrat type of pattern, then the WS fla's that I have seen. Again, too few to actually know. The head shape is questionable. Thanks

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