[TheSpottedOwl]

That's a bummer : ( My little lynx point almost bought the farm several months ago, courtesy of Pandora, who won't stay in her tank. We're working on getting a more secure cage. She was really never a problem before.

People who buy a snake with no idea on how big the sucker is going to get, and how much the snake needs to eat, should simply call a herpetologist, or the animal shelter. Someone will give it a home.

Someone let a Burmese Python (20ft) loose in Devil's Punchbowl, which is about 4700 ft up. A ranger found the snake half frozen, and the snake sat in the visitor's center with a sign telling people NOT to abandon their snakes, or any other animal.

[GladesGuru]

" simply call a herpetologist, or the animal shelter. Someone will give it a home. "

Just as with the Humane Society and PETA, it is hardly unknown for such "rescued" snakes to be dumped.

I met just such a dumper in the front of my place in the Everglades. The dumper was dumping off pigmy rattlesnakes, and was all puffed up over the goodness of his deed.

I had to tell him I had a school, that schools and pit vipers were incompatible, and that I had shot all pit vipers on my place.

He gave me the usual Liberal look, shifted his nice new jeep (paid for with his father's money, by the way), left to do his shifty deeds further down the road, and clearly thought I was some sort of baddie for not allowing pit vipers on my land.

Pity!

Moral: Do the unwanted animal, the neighbors in the area where you are contemplating dumping the animal, and the animals already in the contemplated dump area a great favor.

Shoot, or just freeze, the unwanted snake.

[GladesGuru]

" simply call a herpetologist, or the animal shelter. Someone will give it a home. "

Just as with the Humane Society and PETA, it is hardly unknown for such "rescued" snakes to be dumped.

I met just such a dumper in the front of my place in the Everglades. The dumper was dumping off pigmy rattlesnakes, and was all puffed up over the goodness of his deed.

I had to tell him I had a school, that schools and pit vipers were incompatible, and that I had shot all pit vipers on my place.

He gave me the usual Liberal look, shifted his nice new jeep (paid for with his father's money, by the way), left to do his shifty deeds further down the road, and clearly thought I was some sort of baddie for not allowing pit vipers on my land.

Pity!

Moral: Do the unwanted animal, the neighbors in the area where you are contemplating dumping the animal, and the animals already in the contemplated dump area a great favor.

Shoot, or just freeze, the unwanted snake.