You will find some folks who are appalled by even the idea of mixing locales. Then you'll find people who love hybrids of all kinds. And in between every other combination of opinions. And that's fine.

But I think the real question is what do you want? Most North American ratsnakes aren't very expensive. Even the morphs and uncommon locales are pretty reasonably priced. So if the average buyer has a choice between a locale specific obsoleta and one that is a combination of subspecies (and maybe even a little corn snake thrown in for good measure) he may go for the locale animal. So if you breed them you may not be able to sell them or even give them away. But even the guys selling locale specific animals sometimes have trouble selling their offspring. So it's more of a handicap than a sin. I do agree with the statement that whatever you decide to do just make sure that you let prospective buyers know the real pedigree of whatever snakes you sell. That way no one can complain after the fact that they were fooled.

Regards
John

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• obsoleta purity consensus? - fliptop, Tue Mar 15 20:06:57 2005
• my thoughts - Kevin Saunders, Tue Mar 15 20:30:27 2005
• RE: obsoleta purity consensus? - jtibbett, Tue Mar 15 21:11:26 2005
• Fliptop, you ask a fair question... - jfirneno, Tue Mar 15 21:33:13 2005
• RE: obsoleta purity consensus? - Elaphefan, Wed Mar 16 15:26:45 2005
• RE: obsoleta purity consensus? - Kevin Saunders, Wed Mar 16 15:52:34 2005
• Another Q about the greenish - guttersnacks, Wed Mar 16 16:50:43 2005
• RE: Another Q about the greenish - Dwight Good, Wed Mar 16 17:19:29 2005
• Interesting... - Conrad, Wed Mar 16 19:55:17 2005
• Disagree - Dwight Good, Wed Mar 16 17:11:49 2005
• Spinning.... - Conrad, Wed Mar 16 20:00:12 2005
• RE: Spinning.... - Dwight Good, Wed Mar 16 21:21:16 2005
• RE: Spinning.... - Elaphefan, Thu Mar 17 11:00:15 2005