My view on hybridization is a bit on the fence due to past experience working in a private fishery in Canada and my own personal stance on messing too much with Mother Nature.

I feel that if you are talking about a group of creatures meant to stay within a captive state then that's one thing. As long as you breed from a standpoint of producing viable hybrids that are healthy and able to reproduce themselves successfully then I have no issues with this. As Judy mentioned, as long as records are kept and animals are represented properly as hybrids. My problem will always be when any creatures are affected by human intervention in their breeding process and the result is either defective young, birthing issues for the female or an inability for the offspring to live a normal, full life.

For creatures that are hybridized with the intent of release back to the wild, this is a sticky topic. An example is the Splake, a cross between a female lake trout and a male brook trout (it can't work the other way). The Splake carries the best of both fish but are hard to visually identify as they can look a lot like either parent or a mix of both. They work in that they are a fantastic game fish, mature and breed faster than the lake trout but grow bigger than the average brookie. They tend to school more than lakes and will fight either brook-like or lake-like, so you never know what to expect. Splake are said to be fully fertile but from my time in the fishery we saw a lot that were not for some reason or other. Sounds like a great fish but the problem is they can breed back diluting the pure lake and brook stock. Some areas where brooks naturally occur have stopped keeping size records due to this mess of not knowing if it's a large record size true brook or a splake or some combo therein. The other quite stupid thing is at least in some areas, the limit laws for splake are different from lake and brook trout but you can't always visually know what you have is either a pure or a hybrid fish.

I guess what I'm saying in all this is when we contemplate messing with hybrids we better think long and hard about the consequences to the creature, it's offspring and the future of both hybrids and the pure stock they came from.