Unless you collected it yourself you will never know for sure what you have is pure or not. Also regardless of the validity behind a breeders statements on the purity of their lineage, it boils down to this. Do they know 100% of the reliability of the importer, and every step between their arrival and your animals generation. Most likely not, and unfortunately a decent portion of the people in the hobby are more monetarily driven then by the enjoyment of the hobby so fudging the facts happens more often then should be.

Of course most will say some lines are tracable, so its up to you to believe it or not.
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Randall L Turner Jr.
www.aircapitalconstrictors.com.

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• how do u tell if you have a pure hogg island boa? MORE - lazzyjeff1, Wed Jan 25 18:54:22 2006
• Thats a hard one... - DavidKendrick, Wed Jan 25 20:10:54 2006
• RE: how do u tell if you have a pure hogg island boa? MORE - Simbo, Wed Jan 25 21:05:13 2006
• RE: how do u tell if you have a pure hogg island boa? MORE - Simbo, Wed Jan 25 21:06:42 2006
• RE: how do u tell if you have a pure hogg island boa? MORE - Simbo, Wed Jan 25 21:07:35 2006
• Eric, your hoggs are developing very nicely....where did - Mark Damico, Wed Jan 25 21:11:46 2006
• Thank you very much Mark..... - Simbo, Wed Jan 25 21:21:34 2006
• RE: Thank you very much Mark..... - Simbo, Wed Jan 25 21:25:26 2006
• RE: Thank you very much Mark..... - kingsnaken, Wed Jan 25 21:49:27 2006
• RE: how do u tell if you have a pure hogg island boa? MORE - lazzyjeff1, Wed Jan 25 21:22:46 2006
• RE: how do u tell if you have a pure hogg island boa? MORE - Simbo, Wed Jan 25 21:28:55 2006
• Sorry, wrong picture! n/p - Simbo, Wed Jan 25 21:29:19 2006
• Over a long enough time span hogs will get pretty big... - PanamaRed, Thu Jan 26 11:33:46 2006
• RE: how do u tell if you have a pure hogg island boa? MORE - Randall_Turner, Thu Jan 26 18:13:11 2006