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[jellybelly]

Thanks for reinforcing my point. I am making no reference here to man made nomenclature. What i am saying is that things just wont be blended to the point where people dont know what what is. I dont own snakes, and breeding doesnteven interest me.

My point is merely the fact that we dont just have one dog barely distinguishable from another, we have many different types of dog. Similarly, just because some people are, what some call hybridising, isnt going to mean we are going to have a single snake called Morellia SNAKE.

But you have brought up that very interesting and pertinent issue. Some people say that (as you have alluded to) putting a NT X over a QLD X is hybridising, while others say that being a sub - species to one another is not hybridising.

Just doesnt make any sense really as there doesnt appear to be a clear cut definition if you will of what really constitutes hybridising.

As far as the laws are concerned, this isnt going to change a thing, your not supposed to breed alibinism but people do.

May be there is no simple answer for it.

Maybe the idea of a national breeders register, similar to pedigree dogs, which have to be certified (or better still DNA tested as in the UK), having this certification will mean people will know exactly what they are buying.

Laws dont seem to work real well, maybe education and having systems in place to make it more worth while to buy pure is the best way.

Probably a very tricky and hard question really.

Oh and by the way, one of the major reasons that all dogs are the same species is because they are a domestic animal, but still this has no bearing on what i was saying.