Just a thought....................

[Pythonfriend]

You just wrote the magic words. This is a HOBBY for me as well as most small breeders and probably yourself. I don't rely on breeding to pay my bills. My first reason for breeding would be to have fun not to strike rich. I think you're in the wrong hobby to make money.

If you want me to look at breeding from a business point of view then I'd tell you it's not a good business to be in period. If all you care about is making money, there's plenty of things you can do that will make a lot more money a lot faster than breeding ever will. So please don't talk to me about smart choices.

So at the end of the day, unless you're the select few who actually depend on breeding to pay their bills, you shouldn't be talking about how uselss certain animals are. Maybe you should reconsider your hobby/business choices and go into something that doesn't deal with useless animals.

even if you do it purely as a hobby, wouldnt you want to get somewhere? hatch something new? hit your dream combo? hit new combinations? ramp up the gene count and the genetic quality of your collection? maybe hit some double recessives or combos involving super forms? maybe even aim for a world first? well, normals will not help with any of this. if you want anything other than copies of more of the same, or if you want a super form, or a visual recessive, both parents need to contribute. even hobby breeders have ambitions and goals. and generally normals are of no help in reaching these goals, they just enable you to cheaply drive up your egg count.

why should people reconsider their hobby/business choices, just because they have goals and ambitions and normals are useless (there, i said it, useless) for getting closer to these goals?

if a hobby breeder has the goal of working with combinations involving super enchi, or piebald, its just a fact that normals will be utterly useless for that. that doesnt mean that this hypothetical hobby breeder has anything against normals and people that use them, its just a fact that nothing involving super enchi and no pied can be produced with any pairing involving a normal. so dont be so damn judgmental. i dont see why you would ask such a person to reconsider breeding altogether.