Any animal is special if it's special to you! (Sorry, I had to ... I just had to.)
Re: the lesser x lesser versus lesser x mojave issue, I did the lesser x mojave breeding specifically to avoid bug-eyes. I can say that out of four BELs, not a one has bug eyes ... However, I have noticed that one of them is cross-eyed.
I think that blue-eyed leucistic snakes tend towards having weird eye issues. Leucistic TX rats, super lessers, and I know I've seen lucy Burms for sale with odd looking eyes. I'm planning on bringing my cross-eyed BEL into my school to have the ophthalmologists take a look at her, and actually trying to get ahold of a bug-eyed lucy TX rat snake, too, for them to take a gander at. I'm curious as to why this happens -- seems like it might have something to do with the pigmentation of the eye, but I don't know why then we don't see these things in albino snakes as well.
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