Quote Originally Posted by wolfy-hound View Post
So if we try to breed smaller ball pythons.. that's not okay? How is that different from breeding albinos? As long as the end product is healthy, I'm not sure I see a real difference.
I think the different breeds of cats are a better example. Dogs originally were bred for specific reasons, for use. Herding, hunting, retrieving, guarding..
Cats were bred as companions, and for pleasing colors and combinations of colors. So a persian is like a albino, there's no reason for a flat faced, full coated cat, other than we find it pleasing. Likewise, the only reason we breed pastels rather than normals is that we find the color combination pleasing.

As long as the snake is healthy(no one-eyed turtles please), I'm all for morphs.
With the today's domesticated animals it's too late, but IMO us humans have no right to domesticate animals! It's absurd to me. There's a major difference between keeping snakes and domesticating them, I hope I don't have to explain that.

Colors morphs have nothing to do with the physical build or shape of an animal; they're just specific genes coding for colors. I heard that some combination of homozygous forms of black pastels or cinnamons create different looking BPs, morphologically? Is this true? That draws the line for me.