Quote Originally Posted by wolfy-hound View Post

I mean, I get that you're really into the whole dog breeding analogy. But mostly, that doesn't really apply to BPs. When people want "quality" in a morph, it's usually things like a pastel that is brighter and holds it's color into adulthood. An anxachic(sorry, I can NEVER spell it!) that stays more greyscale and doesn't gain gold coloration in adulthood.

It's not the same as a dog with bad hips. Also, it's not the same to say cross breeds are healthier, because ball pythons really don't have distinct breeds, just different morphs, but underneath the skin, they are exactly the same animal. So "mutts" don't apply to ball pythons like the term does to dogs with their varied breeds.

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sorry as i said that was my rant mode i wasn't trying to say that there were "breeds" so much as that was a problem in dogs more than the "purity" i was not commenting on snakes being mutts lol...