Quote Originally Posted by WingedWolfPsion View Post
The same way other registries do. It isn't exactly difficult to determine fraud when there is a paper trail!
No one selling fake hets is going to register them, and wind up with police knocking on their door when someone finds out about it.

Registration means that person's identity is confirmed, and that animal's identity is confirmed, and it's all kept in a central database. That is more than enough to prosecute for fraud if someone registers a normal as a het. What's more, that individual would be barred from registering animals in the future, and all of the animals that they have registered would likely be removed from the registry.
What happens when an animal is registered as a het, but due to something beyond your control, whether it's an animal you bought as a het or sperm retention from the previous year turns out to not be a het? There's just too many variables with ball pythons, not to mention the fact that there's just too many breeders for it to be all encompassing. You've got the little guys doing it for a hobby that aren't going to want to pay a fee to register every animal they produce, and then you've got the big guys producing 1000+ offspring every year that I think it's safe to say won't want to register every animal regardless of the cost. If something like this DOES happen, I think it'll be a pretty small niche of breeders that would actually use it...