Quote Originally Posted by PythonWallace View Post
When has that ever happened in the long run? How many people who own creamsicle corn snakes even know that they own a hybrid, and how many people who have corns know whether or not it has any rat blood? How many people who own carpet pythons or boas can say for a fact that they have a pure sub species or pure locality animal? There are quite a few people who can't, but a good amount of them will breed them and sell the offspring as what they think/assume/hope/wish they are. And once even one person does that, every generation after that, and all the breeders who work with any decendant after that is unknowingly working with, producing and selling hybrids as pure blood animals. And at that point, the whole CB species is in question.

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Agreed, which is why I don't wish to produce them myself. They are going to produce hybrids, whether we like it or not. I just make sure I buy from reputable dealers who know their animals history, especially if I want to breed the animals myself.

I completely understand where you are coming from. Fact is, quite a few hybridist are extremely irresponsible. They don't keep paper work on the animals, they don't sell them to responsible keepers, etc. The chain continues until you end up with where Carpet Pythons, Hog Island Boas, other Boa Locales, etc are currently at. Look at the massive posts about "What Carpet did I get?", I've seen 3 posts in the past week or two.

Oh! and lets not forget childreni (Children's Pythons) and maculosa (Spotted Python). It is extremely rare to find a pure animal in the US. Almost immediately after being imported into US soil, the intra-species hybridization started.

I said as long as they are bred responsibly, I don't mind. Yes it might not be a common occurrence, but it does occur. Most of the users on the forum he posted are serious about their hobby (hybrids) and do keep proper labels on their animals. Most of them that are serious about the hobby will also sell to other responsible keepers.