True locality does come down to honesty and integrity so I apologize nothing is 100% ! I understand some pople may not care what the parents and grand parents look like if they think the locality is pure. Pictures can be falsified, and often parents and offspring look nothing alike anyway. Pictures do not prove you are not being lied to, I don't mean that at all.
Someday I personally hope that I can produce animals that will be able to be bred as a pure line beyond our lifetime. When we are gone future breeders can use the pictures to help make up their own mind. I believe Dan is (or was) trying this with his website, and good photographic records will make it possible for our efforts to carry on well into the future.
To me, photographic records going back to w.c. are an important aspect to the whole point of locality animals. Pictures add value and interest to the animals, in my mind anyway.
As I stated, often the pictures of parents and offspring don't look similar to each other. I find it troubling that some people don't want to show pictures of the parents, maybe it is out of fear of being questioned, or out of fear that potential buyers will not believe the possibility that "those snakes" produced "these" babies?
I know Mike is doing the right thing by showing these pictures, and he is taking "the heat". It it shows his integrity he has in putting good records ahead of his dollars. I mean he spent the money on these animals and now the money might have gone partially out the window but more important he has some pure Huecos and additional snakes for his generic "Granite line" (a.k.a. hehehe snakes)
I have found similar feelings from others diminishing the value of picture records, and I simply don't understand why, pictures add value they don't take away value.
Jim
