Breeding Standards

[kxr]

If wine can be rated and priced accordingly a ball python can. I hate all wine, but ironically, i have learned if I really think it tastes like crap it is probably a higher rated wine. Mad Dog, works fine for me. LOL

I'm not sure I buy into the whole "oh ho ho my wine is fancier then yours so I can charge an exorbitant amount for it". Then again, I don't drink very much and like you when I do it's not wine. Maybe my "palate" just isn't "sophisticated" enough...

Edit: I just googled it and apparently mad dog is wine... either way my point stands

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[JodanOrNoDan]

I'm not sure I buy into the whole "oh ho ho my wine is fancier then yours so I can charge an exorbitant amount for it". Then again, I don't drink very much and like you when I do it's not wine. Maybe my "palate" just isn't "sophisticated" enough...

Edit: I just googled it and apparently mad dog is wine... either way my point stands

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Ah, but this is exactly the game we are playing here. I don't like the taste of hypo but I can recognize the perceived value.

[kxr]

Ah, but this is exactly the game we are playing here. I don't like the taste of hypo but I can recognize the perceived value.

I'm not exactly sure how this compares to wine, like I said I'm no wine connoisseur, but I can agree with you in terms of mutations. You may not like hypo while I'm a big fan of hypo. I'm assuming you can see that hypo changes the appearance of the animal and you just don't like that change. I can say the same thing about one of the most popular mutations around, piebald.

Now that I type that out I realize you are trying to make the point that you don't have to like something to judge its quality. My point remains the same, do we consider both high and low white pieds as equally valuable traits and judge them accordingly or is one considered more desirable then the other? What about people who prefer midwhite pieds? There are so many different ways to define quality I think it would be difficult to set a standard for each different variation of each polygenic trait of each ball python mutation. It's not impossible but I think it'd be really messy.


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