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Florida’s Dragon Problem
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| 20 Apr, 2016
| ED YONG
Posted on 04/20/2016 7:20:59 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Florida also has problems with feral hogs, constrictor snakes like pythons and boa constrictors, and iguanas.
And conures. One has taken over my house, but I have promised not to let her loose.
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posted on
04/21/2016 12:03:21 AM PDT
by
867V309
(It's over. It's over now.)
To: kalee
Can’t their bite be really nasty? I thought I read somewhere that because they eat roadkill and other garbage their mouths carry a cesspool mix of nasty bacteria, making their bites dangerous. That is very true. Their mouths are a cesspool. Their bite isn't deadly in and of itself, but in the wild they are known to bite their prey and follow it around until it dies of the infection from the bite...
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posted on
04/21/2016 3:49:39 AM PDT
by
Cyclone59
(Where are we going, and what's with the handbasket?)
To: shibumi; Salamander
To: Salamander
I see they don’t care for waxed kitchen floors all that much.
To: Larry Lucido
Jake, fixing to post on FR
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posted on
04/21/2016 4:40:45 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
To: Larry Lucido
Somebody on one of my FB snake forums posted a video of a Ball Python “swimming” on satin sheets.
It was making really great time and getting nowhere, fast.
One poster said satin sheets were like treadmills for snakes.
:)
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posted on
04/21/2016 4:43:15 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
To: Salamander
To: Salamander
Jake from State Farm? I know he was a snake.
To: MtnClimber
Florida also has problems with feral hogs, constrictor snakes like pythons and boa constrictors, and iguanasand DemocRATs, transplanted from New York.
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:08:52 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("When judges act like whores, they can hardly expect to be treated like nuns.")
To: Larry Lucido
He was not wearing his khakis so it’s an easy mistake.
:)
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:09:45 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
To: Larry Lucido
We actually did switch to State Farm because they do not penalize you for having Dobermanns or other...unusual pets.
:)
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:12:17 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
To: Salamander; Larry Lucido
Jake from Snake Farm - 
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posted on
04/21/2016 5:39:14 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
To: Cyclone59
That’s what I thought. I read it somewhere a few years ago.
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posted on
04/21/2016 4:44:08 PM PDT
by
kalee
To: Cyclone59; kalee
Their bite isn't deadly in and of itself, but in the wild they are known to bite their prey and follow it around until it dies of the infection from the bite... It had been thought that the lethalness of their bite was due to bacteria. Monitor lizards are actually venomous.
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posted on
04/21/2016 4:54:14 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: PapaBear3625
Venom or bacteria, doesn’t matter to me. I hope I never encounter one and get bitten. ;)
Seriously though thank you for the information!
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posted on
04/21/2016 6:27:40 PM PDT
by
kalee
To: MtnClimber
Shoot it Lizbeth! Shoot it! :-)
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posted on
04/21/2016 7:16:05 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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