Of course animals "CAN" and often "DO" inbreed in the wild...noone has argued that they don't. This is why you will likely live to see the extinction of tigers, cheetahs and many other animals well on the way out....Of course there is a "CHANCE" of accidental inbreeding in captivity even from animals bought in different places...probably especially in Canada where importing them is a great deal more difficult. But how does going ahead and inbreeding because they may have already inbred before make any sense? I don't get that mentality at all. BTW, if you would stop feeding live prey, your rainbow boa wouldn't be missing scales. Also...this thread wasn't meant to be an inbreeding debate...I simply asked if anyone knew of anymore piebald amazons. I'm not on a get rich quick off selling snakes scheme and I can't be convinced to inbreed anything on purpose so why the hostility? So I like diversity in a genepool? woopee...how does that make me a bad person? Have I insulted someone's personal lineage? If so I'm sorry...that wasn't my intentions.
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