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There have been many, many recent postings concerning misrepresentation of boas. This has been going on for years and is never going to change. How many people out there who own "red-tailed boas" actually own a b.c.c.? Not near as people as claim to own one. Pet shops have been doing this for years. Would people rather own a "red-tailed boa" or a "common" Columbian boa? I'm not saying that certain individuals are using terms to try to sell their animals, but they may be. What is important here is that we educate ourselves and the people around us to prevent being taken advantage of. Any snake, painting, car, etc. is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. (And snakes are not inanimate objects!) What is wrong is labelling them as something they are not. I'm not Picasso and I'm not Barry Miller. I'm not claiming to be, and I will never claim to have "jungle" boas or "arabesque" boas unless they are the real deal. If only everyone out there would do the same. It will never happen. "People are strange." It's that simple. The damage has been done. Misidentified animals are among us. We can only do our best to prevent more of this. And if anyone actually took the time to read my three cents (I'm tired of everyone's two cents), here is a pic of one of my kids. A true, untainted, ordinary (yeah right!) and simply stunning Argentine (b.c.occidentalis)! Hope you enjoy.

P.S. There may be hostile postings and schenanigans galore in this forum, but you have no idea how nice it is to know that there are actually other reptile lovers out there who can be articualte and who hopefully share other traits with me (i.e. a full set of teeth, IQs higher than their left shoes, don't walk their children to school because they are in the same grade, etc...).

Phil

>> How many people out there who own "red-tailed boas" actually own a b.c.c.? >>

i do

by the way, THANK YOU MR GRAY RUSHIN.... shes becoming a real crown jewel in the collection.
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>>There have been many, many recent postings concerning misrepresentation of boas. This has been going on for years and is never going to change. How many people out there who own "red-tailed boas" actually own a b.c.c.? Not near as people as claim to own one. Pet shops have been doing this for years. Would people rather own a "red-tailed boa" or a "common" Columbian boa? I'm not saying that certain individuals are using terms to try to sell their animals, but they may be. What is important here is that we educate ourselves and the people around us to prevent being taken advantage of. Any snake, painting, car, etc. is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. (And snakes are not inanimate objects!) What is wrong is labelling them as something they are not. I'm not Picasso and I'm not Barry Miller. I'm not claiming to be, and I will never claim to have "jungle" boas or "arabesque" boas unless they are the real deal. If only everyone out there would do the same. It will never happen. "People are strange." It's that simple. The damage has been done. Misidentified animals are among us. We can only do our best to prevent more of this. And if anyone actually took the time to read my three cents (I'm tired of everyone's two cents), here is a pic of one of my kids. A true, untainted, ordinary (yeah right!) and simply stunning Argentine (b.c.occidentalis)! Hope you enjoy.
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>>P.S. There may be hostile postings and schenanigans galore in this forum, but you have no idea how nice it is to know that there are actually other reptile lovers out there who can be articualte and who hopefully share other traits with me (i.e. a full set of teeth, IQs higher than their left shoes, don't walk their children to school because they are in the same grade, etc...).
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>>Phil
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"To be the best..........You must lose your mind."

It's all part of the fun!!! What else would we talk about if not the confusing & stimulating diff. pieces of "I have no clue what kind of snake this is, let's all take turns on trying to identify it" It's one of the things that has drawn me to the boa forum (that and the fact that I'm getting a guyana boa) or is it a surinam?? But if you look close enough, she's got features of many of my friends, so is she really mine? not a clue, but it looks pretty in my eyes. I'd like to add that it's not likely to educate ourselves fully on the different variations of boas, (unless we all had our personal genesist with us)
Although I do agree on the fact that many people trying to sell their common boa, will take the benifit of the doubt (if there's the slightest trace of deep red in the tail, then it's definetely a surinam)
BEAUTIFUL Argentinian you've got there?!

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