Hybrid?

[spix14]

Dogs have organizations to make sure that if someone wants to buy a purebred Siberian husky or what have you, you can be sure you are getting exactly that. The reptile industry doesn't have anything in place that someone who wants to buy a pure amelanistic corn snake will get a pure corn snake. That's the main difference here.

While I agree that there should be some sort of organizations put in place to preserve bloodline purity, that wasn't precisely the point I was going for. It kinda seems like there are two camps in the anti-hybrid people, those who are against it because of the "mutt" factor, and those who are against it because it wouldn't happen naturally in the wild. What I was saying, is that the people who say that hybrid breeders shouldn't be playing god, evidently don't care about humans playing god in other respects. You wouldn't be able to buy a husky of any sort, purebred or not, if humans hadn't bred them into existance. So in reality, all the dog breeds out there are around because humans bred wolves into the sort of animals they wanted. I.e, on principle, those who are vehemently against hybrid snakes should be against dogs as well, because they aren't preserving the purity of the wolf bloodline.

Just MHO.


-I can't for the life of me figure out how to quote two posts in my post, but anyway-

Ladywhipple, Come to think of it, I have that issue and I remember seeing that snake. Haven't seen the annies and the Rbs, though. Seems like it wouldn't be that far of a stretch, though, them being so closely related. It just seems to me that compared with pythons, no one's really done much tinkering with boas.

[Ophiuchus]

Yeah, isn't a cross between subspecies referred to as an intergrade?

[ladywhipple02]

Ladywhipple, Come to think of it, I have that issue and I remember seeing that snake. Haven't seen the annies and the Rbs, though. Seems like it wouldn't be that far of a stretch, though, them being so closely related. It just seems to me that compared with pythons, no one's really done much tinkering with boas.

I think boas are fairly new to most people. Compared to pythons and the morphs that have just exploded from BPs and others, we are really just now starting to break ground with boas. Yes, there were people breeding boas back in the 80s, just like there were people breeding BPs. But the boa market seems to be a slower, steadier market... we haven't seen the explosion like BPs... at least, not yet It's picking up speed, though. I say give it a few years... you're really going to see things start cooking, I promise!

[spix14]

Sorry, accidental repost.

[PythonWallace]

You wouldn't be able to buy a husky of any sort, purebred or not, if humans hadn't bred them into existance. So in reality, all the dog breeds out there are around because humans bred wolves into the sort of animals they wanted. I.e, on principle, those who are vehemently against hybrid snakes should be against dogs as well, because they aren't preserving the purity of the wolf bloodline.

Dogs were bred by humans from wolves, dingos and foxes. I don't like the comparison to dogs because there are the organizations out there to make sure all dog breeds are kept pure for those who want them. Dogs were also man made to complete tasks to help humans out, and whether people like it or not, the dog breeds already exist. Like I said I don't have a problem with someone hybridizing snakes as a novelty for themselves, but once they start changing hands and being sold in petstores to irresponsible or ignorant people, there is a risk of doing irreversable damage to pure bloodlines.
When I was breeding corn snakes I saw a pair of creamsicle cornsnakes in a pet shop. There was no mention that they weren't pure corns, and had I not known better and bought one, bred it to an amel corn and sold the offspring as amel corns, every snake traceable back to those clutches would unknowingly be hybrids. On the other hand, if a person decides they want to start breeding German shepards, he would get breeding stock with papers. There's no risk of weird offspring popping out a couple of generations down the road. Plus, I said I was getting a dingo, which isn't a man made breed.

[spix14]

And I agree with you. You would fall into the category of being against it because of the "mutt" factor. I was referring to those who are against it on moral, "That wouldn't happen in nature" grounds.

And good luck with the dingo, btw. Personally I'd love to have a wolf but I would never actually get one. Just don't have the facilities for one.

[PythonWallace]

And I agree with you. You would fall into the category of being against it because of the "mutt" factor. I was referring to those who are against it on moral, "That wouldn't happen in nature" grounds.

And good luck with the dingo, btw. Personally I'd love to have a wolf but I would never actually get one. Just don't have the facilities for one.

Ok, I hear you. I'd love a wolf too, but I doubt it will ever happen. I think a dingo is doable.