Genetic Defects and Culling
Before I get into this, let me start by explicitly clarifying that this thread is for me to ask for information, not to start debates.
I've seen a lot of discussion about genetic defects and whether or not they should be culled or kept as pets etc. with a lot of opinions and I'm trying to decide what I think about the subject.
The one thing I want to know that I haven't seen many definitive answers for is what defects actually impact a snake's quality of life and which don't. I know my corn Lorenzo has a little kink/bump in his back that's never seemed to bother him, so while I don't plan to breed him obviously, I probably wouldn't have seen any need to cull him if I had been the one to hatch him. But I wonder about things like bug eyes, one eye, two-heads, etc; do things like that seem to actually cause them any pain or distress?
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