They're like God's ginaormous box of unlimited crayons.
Just one of the many things they can be, and brilliant breeders are discovering new combinations all the time.
Posted on 10/21/2021 4:32:48 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The ball python was removed Wednesday from the Herrick Lake Forest Preserve in Wheaton after a woman who had been walking at the preserve noticed a large snake under her car and called police.
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Impressive coloration! But that coiled head means trouble. He’s in strike position.
—”Irresponsibly keeping exotic animals is a big problem.”
Personal responsibility has been on the wane for some time.
IMO a symptom of the weakening of our culture.
Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”
Someone raised that python and possibly became bored with it?
Why not put it in their freezer, if that was their intent?
The same happens with children, just look around.
The parent(s) put them out on the street.
The python had a better chance in a DuPage forest preserve than a kid in Chiraq.
Beautiful! That paint job is just amazing.
Flaming Liberianl aholes discovered in Congress!! More at 11!
Not spelling mistakes!!!
LOL!
That’s been happening forever :-)
My old Granny used to say of some parents that ‘they shit them, and let the Sun hatch them’.
Like turtles, or something.
(She was a very ladylike woman, and only used language like that when she was REALLY incensed...)
“But what do they eat?”
Mice, rats, chipmunks, maybe a squirrel. Nothing as big as a cat or rabbit and unlikely to get close to a pet hamster or gerbil.
They are not like the giant Burmese pythons running wild in FL. A ball python is maybe 6 foot maximum.
Probably saved its life by getting it off the street before winter.
“Large African snake”
LMAO!
Just the pretty pet rock of the the herp world.
Beautiful little blobs of apparently infinite variety
https://www.worldofballpythons.com/
Yep.
Below 70 degrees, they just lock up.
Even the biggest Beep I ever had struggled with a medium sized frozen rat.
Squirrels would eat them, more likely.
Strange, I thought Obama lived in DC these days.
They excel at escaping but suck at living wild.
Alice, my pastel male, managed to use his head and neck as a crescent wrench and unlock his enclosure.
He was missing for almost two months and when he finally appeared after slithering around between the walls and floors, he was covered in 300 year old pine pitch with fuzz and crud stuck to him.
He popped up in the upstairs bathroom one night.
He had a live mouse in his mouth and he put it down and tried to beat it to death with his face.
He had no idea how to snake.
That comparison is insulting to decent snakes everywhere.
No.
They're like God's ginaormous box of unlimited crayons.
Just one of the many things they can be, and brilliant breeders are discovering new combinations all the time.
The people who devote decades to figuring out what makes what, are genetic wizards.
I took my daughter to a reptile show several weeks ago. She just wanted to get a young (~8”) corn snake* as a pet. Plus supplies, like frozen pinkies (baby mice, to readers unfamiliar.) While there though (it was an almost 3 hour drive), we walked through the whole thing. You are right, the colors the breeders have come up with (and not only for snakes - some of the lizards were “pretty crazy” coloration-wise too) are remarkable.
*The choice of corn snake was partially a cost consideration, and, as they are native in our area, tho’ not particularly plentiful, if she tired of the snake and can’t find a home for it, releasing it on one of our local refuges or wildlife management areas would not be problematic. (I’d at least insist such a release would only occur if the snake had demonstrated competence in feeding on live mice.)
Although I realize the exotic pet trade has become big business, I’ve always wondered about the banning of keeping native reptiles but allowing the exotics (to often become problematic if released, or, to be poorly adapted for release and do poorly, or worse, if released.)
Why not flip that around, such that sale and keeping of only reptiles native to an area in that area is legal, unless one has a license to do otherwise? Poaching could be a problem, but I have a book of ideas on how to promote legal sales and crack down on large scale poachers, all at no net cost to non-participating taxpayers.
Herrick Lake?
That would wake up my neighbors who go for early a.m. walks there LOL!
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