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I fully respect Wil's approach at defending himself from earlier accusations of being "immoral" for wanting to keep/breed Albino Tegus.

Albinos do seem to have special needs or additional needs, but it seems when those needs are provided for, they live as happy of a live as their 'wild type' captive counterparts.

I see no harm, much less any moral issues, with breeding an animal that has special or additional needs. Many keepers as well as breeders pride themselves in keeping a species that are hard to keep or breed. Keeping a morph that is hard to keep isn't any different.

Propogating a morph that cannot sustain itself in the wild is a moot point, as it would be "immoral" to release captive specimen back to the wild.

From everything I have seen and exsperienced, breeding 'exotic' animals is a bad business for someone who is simply money hungry. People almost exclusively get into breeding such animals out of interest int he animals themselves. Then they try to modify their hobby to pay for itself, every once in a while finding an angle to earn a living. I think we should applaud those who do, not criticize them.

Those who understand the process of breeding animals with a recessive gene will understand there are additional steps required to produce them, so it only makes sense they would cost more.

<blockquote data-quote="Toby_H" data-source="post: 72686" data-attributes="member: 246">I fully respect Wil's approach at defending himself from earlier accusations of being &quot;immoral&quot; for wanting to keep/breed Albino Tegus. Albinos do seem to have special needs or additional needs, but it seems when those needs are provided for, they live as happy of a live as their 'wild type' captive counterparts.I see no harm, much less any moral issues, with breeding an animal that has special or additional needs. Many keepers as well as breeders pride themselves in keeping a species that are hard to keep or breed. Keeping a morph that is hard to keep isn't any different.Propogating a morph that cannot sustain itself in the wild is a moot point, as it would be &quot;immoral&quot; to release captive specimen back to the wild. From everything I have seen and exsperienced, breeding 'exotic' animals is a bad business for someone who is simply money hungry. People almost exclusively get into breeding such animals out of interest int he animals themselves. Then they try to modify their hobby to pay for itself, every once in a while finding an angle to earn a living. I think we should applaud those who do, not criticize them.Those who understand the process of breeding animals with a recessive gene will understand there are additional steps required to produce them, so it only makes sense they would cost more.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Toby_H, post: 72686, member: 246"] I fully respect Wil's approach at defending himself from earlier accusations of being "immoral" for wanting to keep/breed Albino Tegus. Albinos do seem to have special needs or additional needs, but it seems when those needs are provided for, they live as happy of a live as their 'wild type' captive counterparts. I see no harm, much less any moral issues, with breeding an animal that has special or additional needs. Many keepers as well as breeders pride themselves in keeping a species that are hard to keep or breed. Keeping a morph that is hard to keep isn't any different. Propogating a morph that cannot sustain itself in the wild is a moot point, as it would be "immoral" to release captive specimen back to the wild. From everything I have seen and exsperienced, breeding 'exotic' animals is a bad business for someone who is simply money hungry. People almost exclusively get into breeding such animals out of interest int he animals themselves. Then they try to modify their hobby to pay for itself, every once in a while finding an angle to earn a living. I think we should applaud those who do, not criticize them. Those who understand the process of breeding animals with a recessive gene will understand there are additional steps required to produce them, so it only makes sense they would cost more. [/QUOTE]

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