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can any one tell me what what needs to be done to get the pie bald phase in any snake spieceas
thanx

It's not something that someone DOES. We just have to wait until it pops up on its own, and then breed from it. That's why it's so rare. Also, not all piebald animals can pass the trait on to their offspring.
Me, I have a piebald dog.
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?

wow u got a piebald dog?!?!?!?!?!?! or was that sarcasm? if u do i wanna c a pic if u got one, but yeh ne way, someone told me that it had to do with alot of inbreeding.
but aright thanx ne way
nevin

Lots of dogs are piebald. All it means is splotchy or patchy coloration, especially high-contrasting colors.

I believe the comment you understood to mean piebald snakes are the result of lots of inbreeding actually meant something a little different. The piebald gene (most notably in the ball python...not sure this is true with any others) is a simple recessive trait...so once it was first discovered in an animal, that animal was bred back to its offspring to prove out the gene and create more. Inbreeding did not create the original piebald.

Hope that helps some.
Judy
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1.0 red cape gopher (Caesar)

Yeah, she's 66% white too!
(Piebald just means patches of white. Obviously not a rare thing in a dog.)

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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?