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I am against altering any animal's natural gifts for the purpose of making them a better pet for idiots. While there are a few valid scientific research reasons for creating venomoids, household pet market does not come to mind. I would love to see the statistics of mortality for both surgery fatalities and long term slow deaths due to feeding/digestion problems...especially in pit vipers and other mainly hemotoxin producing vens. If one snake dies as a result of this or becomes poor from metabolism problems, then none were the effort for the pet trade. Weigh it against the lives of herpers that may have otherwise died from the pet's bite? So what? It isn't like there weren't some 2800 or so choices of colubrids and boids to choose from. Darwinism...nuf said.
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