Posted on 12/17/2020 7:07:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
For decades, pythons have been identified as one of the biggest and most concerning invasive species in Florida, having drastically impacted the populations of a number of native species and permanently altering the ecosystem since they were first introduced into the wild.
a group of people riding on the back of a man: Truman the black Labrador & Eleanor the point setter spent over a month learning to search for pythons using scent signals and how to alert their handlers when they find a python, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.© Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Truman the black Labrador & Eleanor the point setter spent over a month learning to search for pythons using scent signals and how to alert their handlers when they find a python, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. But now, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) have a new weapon in controlling the population of these threats to natural wildlife in the region -- Truman the black Labrador and Eleanor the point setter.
Truman and Eleanor are the two biggest stars of the FWC’s new Detector Dog Team. Their task? Hunting down and helping their handler’s remove Burmese pythons from the wild.
a man holding a fish: Truman the black Labrador & Eleanor the point setter spent over a month learning to search for pythons using scent signals and how to alert their handlers when they find a python, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.© Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Truman the black Labrador & Eleanor the point setter spent over a month learning to search for pythons using scent signals and how to alert their handlers when they find a python, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
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“Hunting down and helping their handler’s remove Burmese pythons from the wild.”
Remove them? With that attitude they’ll never get rid of them. They must be killed on the spot. Open season all year long. No license and no limits.
Now here’s the perfect job for Joe Biden.....python sniffer.
Guy to gal: Put your mask on for the close-up shots.
I expect the good op’ boys in Florida account for a lot of dead pythons.
So *that’s* why dogs keep sticking their noses in my crotch.
Dogs that can sniff out snakes?
Send them to DC.
It would be the first thing he did in his life for the good of others.
Me too! Imagine that!
“how to alert their handlers when they find a python,”
I think the screaming as they’re having the life squeezed out of them probably doesn’t need to be taught.
“So *that’s* why dogs keep sticking their noses in my crotch.”
I see what you did there.
I wonder if the pooch’s leather harness doubles as a crush-proof safeguard.
The problem I see there is that when they aren’t on a road, how the heck are you going to get to them in that brush? We need drones that sniff them out and blow them up!
Not for nothing, but if you simply kill the snake the fire ants will clear the corpse assuming the turkey buzzards don’t find it first.
Dead stuff does not last long on the ground in Florida. Even a dead cow does not last long there - huge numbers of buzzards and the fire ants are ridiculous. At night you get the possums and wild hogs in many places and there is no shortage of those either!
How about a youtube vid:
“Burmese pythons: catch, clean & cook.”
Hey, it worked with gar fish & alligators.
When I was a kid living in Subic Bay, they found this snake wrapped around the differential of one of their fire trucks up at Cubi Point:
I'm sure there are lots bigger than that one, but I recall seeing that from the Stars and Stripes on the base with it. My best friend's dad was the administrator of the SERE training at Cubi Point, and one day my buddy said "Hey, you want to see something cool?"
What respectable 12 year old boy would ever say no to that, so he went to closet and pulled out a disk the kind of resembled a rolled up fire hose, and he went to the end of the hallway of the house and rolled it down the hallway like a bowling ball.
It was the skin of some big constrictor...yea...that WAS pretty cool. That was some 50 years ago, and I just dreamed it recently.
There are some issues with mercury in the Everglades. If you can find some that pass Hg tests, you can eat ‘em. I think the good ol’ boys are after skins.
I was thinking they needed some constrictor-proof spikes on them. I doubt they get too far from their handlers, though.
I remember road-killed dogs swelling up like purple balloons in very little time in Florida.
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