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[pythonss]

well what can you say. first i also find this treatment of animals offensive. there is no way that this particular pairing could ever happen in the wild so the natural hibridisation goes right out the window.
it also remains to be seen wheather these offspring will ever be able to breed ( mules ) nature makes this happen for very valid reasons also.
lets talk about the dollar value.. you see in the states people invested great amounts of money in gtp is we are also doing here now. in the states they are now worth very little because of the ongoing rape of areas ( which by the way isnt in there own back yard ) and the flooding of wild caught animals into the american trade as well as sucseefull breeding programes with in as well. Now they are looking to find ways of getting a dollar return on the animals they have brought. hibrid matings are being done for money, not sceince, not for study. This is yet another example to show us why we have the regulations in regard to keeping reptiles in this contry. We all at times get frustrated by these laws and i have been as guilty as anyone with regards to this. But the longer i have involvment in this hobby and see what happens else where the more thankfull i am becoming of them.
As for the keeping requirments for these hibrids that john has had the insight to think about.. You know how the care sheet will come about. they will learn from the animals that suffer. While the pic is very much a visual jungle you could nearly garentee that the internals are very much gtp oreintated so which care should be given. not body knows for sure untill animals die from doing it the wrong way. and yes i know that this was also done with origanal keeping of most species of reptiles but we are way past the stage of killing reptiles for our own satisfaction. ( well we should be ).
Maybe my views are a little one eyed but im a purist. always have and will be. and i make no apoligies for that. The day that this sort of discusting behaviour by reptile keepers in this contry is legal is the day i will give it away. The way i look at it as do others especally reputable bird keepers is that when keeping native wild life of any type is that you are helping preserve the existance of the species for ever. Maybe not the way nature intended but nature never intended for species to become needlessly exstinct for our pleasure.
Feel free to have a shot as this topic also sits hand in hand for the people that feel they shold also be able to keep exotics in this contry anyway just some of my views..Could go on about this one for weeks..lol

cheers paul.