Quote Originally Posted by littleindiangirl View Post
It's nothing like breeding morphs.... Morphs occur naturally in the wild, we are working with animals we got from the wild. I dont understand how you can even compare two completely different things.

And yes, I wont buy from someone that purposely does random reptile hybrids. What you just describe IS only for giggles. Maybe they dont necessarily "giggle" while doing it, but I do not find the reasons for making reptile hybrids good enough to do it.

What does it serve other than to tickle humans fancy, "oh, look its pretty. I made a hybrid just to see if I can." You can't control what traits the animal takes from one animal, not unless you got some lab set up for gene splicing. And then, why???

Yea, what a great job, mucking up captive populations blood lines to make something useless to people who dont want a bunch of mucked up animals in the future and just want a blood python. Way to go.

And for people who say they will just ID it as a hybrid is not taking into consideration the forgetfulness, sliminess, and downright lying people will do. Neither can someone control the offspring from a hybrid breeding, can they control the hybrids offspring it could possibly have later down the line as they are passed or sold on to other people.
Yes morphs happen in the wild. Do they survive? Normally not. Hybrids also happen in the wild. sure some we doo in captivity are impossuble in the wild but hybrids do happen, and more often then one might think.

Also peopel can be irresponsible with morphs. At first one might be confused by this statement but its incredibly true. Some one might produce animals that are are 66% or 33% het. something and when they seel the animal they might forget to mention, don't know about it, or not bother to mention it all. Now some people might be happy to find a hidden in there snakes, but for some one who has spent a lot of money and time on a project just to a hidden het. ruin it definately wouldn't be happy about the hidden het.

the best example I can think of is in leopard geckos there are 3 different uncompatible strains of albino. Some irresponsible people will mix the lines and when people put them into project they don't know for sure which albino is which an ect. so people can be just a irresponsible with morphs as with hybrids.