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I ask this to all the leopard tortoise veterans out there,,,
What on Earth is the deal with all these breeders offering so called pure "p.pardalis" (South African)babies all of a sudden??!?
It's like virtually overnight people "supposedly" have all these breeder South African adults?
In my humble opinion, far to many breeders are seemingly trying to jump on the p.pardalis "price bandwagon" and profit on it with a bunch of pardalis/babcocki mixes. The trend seems to be to buy a true male p.pardalis and breed them with babcocki females in attempts to sell the babies as pure p.p.
I honestly think it's getting out of control. I'm not necessarily against the breeding of the two varieties but to take those obvious mix babies and claim them as pure is really REALLY getting on my nerves. I have much more respect for those who admit that their babies are just mixes and sell them at a fair cost.
Any thoughts from anyone else? Or aim I losing my cool over nothing?
What on Earth is the deal with all these breeders offering so called pure "p.pardalis" (South African)babies all of a sudden??!?
It's like virtually overnight people "supposedly" have all these breeder South African adults?
In my humble opinion, far to many breeders are seemingly trying to jump on the p.pardalis "price bandwagon" and profit on it with a bunch of pardalis/babcocki mixes. The trend seems to be to buy a true male p.pardalis and breed them with babcocki females in attempts to sell the babies as pure p.p.
I honestly think it's getting out of control. I'm not necessarily against the breeding of the two varieties but to take those obvious mix babies and claim them as pure is really REALLY getting on my nerves. I have much more respect for those who admit that their babies are just mixes and sell them at a fair cost.
Any thoughts from anyone else? Or aim I losing my cool over nothing?