Posted on 08/02/2007 8:26:56 AM PDT by george76
Burmese pythons are particularly popular for about $40 wholesale or just under $100 in a pet store, at about the size of a ruler. You feed a little one mice, and then rats, and then as it continues to grow in size and appetite, you offer up chickens and rabbits, the experts say.
You watch your snakeling graduate in about three years to a length of 10 or 12 feet, or longer. Ultimately it can reach 20 feet, and the heavyweights tip the scales at about 300 pounds, and live to about 25 years. Their defacatory production is renowned.
And while you're raising your young python, plan on accommodating its living needs, which make a teenager's look mild. At first, you can put it in a cage. Then you can put it in a very big cage. And finally, you'd just better give it an entire room, or the guest wing of your home. And if you get tired of feeding it four or five big rabbits at a time, go ahead and provide a small pig (or maybe an unruly child or, well, you get the picture).
Burmese pythons are breeding like rabbits.
Some wildlife biologists estimate their numbers in the park now at about 5,000, most of them wild-born offspring of animals from the pet trade either purposely released or escaped from owners after major storms...
"We had laws to control lions, tigers and poisonous snakes, the class one animals, but we didn't have a category to take care of invasive species - pythons, monitor lizards and iguanas, invasive rats down in the keys - things that are and can be super destructive to Florida's environment," ...
Just how destructive is anybody's guess.
"The devastating effect of the python is probably on the bird populations, young nesting birds,"
(Excerpt) Read more at florida-weekly.com ...
I was thinking the same thing! And if there was a bounty it'd be like getting paid to go fishing.......or getting paid to go to the shooting range.
Giving a financial incentive to shoot them will guarantee a thorough job of killing them. Sportsman like you and I would not hunt them to extinction for the fun of it, but that is what needs to be done.
It’s defactive?
I have too!
It’s unreal to see a SNAKE FLY!
Not if its a spay/neuter procedure with a rabies shot. That’s a wonderful person.
Have you ever run over a snake with your lawn mower? They fly out in several pieces.
If you consider what I said a flame ... you have issues.
I was merely pointing out the fact that you cite studies (no links by the way nor are there any References.) that support your bias. So before you automatically make assumptions about people based on their pets all I am saying is maybe you should review your own bias before hand.
No, that is a person that needs to get a grip.
My son and I have a ball python. We’re not exactly sociopaths.
UGH!
I’m trying to eat lunch ... about to get physically ill.
No...that’s a person who cares about dogs and cats.
WHat do you feed that snake? Anything live?
What if they are not yours and belong to someone else?
That’s ok. I’m fixing them either way.
That's no "misprint," it's an evolutionary step forward. To what, I'm not sure.
I am sorry. I can not get a grip on this thought process. I have a small male that is not fixed. If you could get your hands on him, you would take him and get him neutered against any wishes I may have?
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