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Don't want your nonnative pet? Turn it in Saturday, no questions asked
The Tampa Tribune & TBO ^
| 11/03/09
| Keith Morelli
Posted on 11/04/2009 7:12:32 AM PST by jwparkerjr
TAMPA - Unwanted nonnative pets ranging from shy hedgehogs to lumbering boa constrictors can be handed over with no questions asked this weekend at an amnesty event sponsored by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
The program is offered only a few times a year in cities across the state. Saturday's event at Busch Gardens is co-sponsored by the city of Plant City.
(Excerpt) Read more at 2.tbo.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nonnative; pets; unwanted
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Pretty interesting how much of a problem these nonnative pets are becoming. Very similar to the illegal immigration problem.
To: jwparkerjr
Similar in what way. People keep exotic pets by choice, don’t they? Ever keep an illegal alien by choice?
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:14:08 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:14:59 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: jwparkerjr
What becomes of the unwanted pets that are handed in?
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:15:15 AM PST
by
DBrow
(Thank You Al Gore You Saved Earth!)
To: jwparkerjr
They can have my hedgehog when they pry it from my cold dead hands!
; )
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:15:55 AM PST
by
ozark hilljilly
(Can I opt-out of Obamaland?)
To: DBrow
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:16:17 AM PST
by
SpinnerWebb
(mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
To: SpinnerWebb
Thank God pets are made out of meat.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:17:22 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: jwparkerjr
Does this include fire ants?
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:17:24 AM PST
by
LearsFool
("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
To: 1rudeboy
Ever keep an illegal alien by choice? Lots of people hire them by choice.
Ever been to a Home Depot?
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:18:12 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 287 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: SpinnerWebb
GumboLOL! (Actually, I was thinking worse.)
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:18:21 AM PST
by
ozark hilljilly
(Can I opt-out of Obamaland?)
To: jwparkerjr
Can I turn in my Swedish Bikini Team? They sure looked cute in the 1991 Old Milwaukee ad campaign, but its 18 years later and ... well, not so cute. :-).
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:19:20 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Any similarity between V and the Obama admin is just that of Obama and any other totalitarian regime)
To: null and void
Ok, so exotic pets aren’t “kept,” they are “hired.” Got it.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:19:37 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
Much like exotic non native pets, illegal immigrants wouldn't be here at all if there were not Americans willing to pay MONEY to have them here.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:20:38 AM PST
by
allmendream
(Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be RE-distributed?)
To: 1rudeboy
Similar in what way. People keep exotic pets by choice, don’t they? Ever keep an illegal alien by choice?The problem occurs when these pets are released into the wild -- abandoned to fend for themselves.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:22:45 AM PST
by
browardchad
("Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own fact." - Daniel P Moynihan)
To: allmendream
Only difference is the illegal immigrants are cheaper than their native counterpart.
Exotic pets tend to be more expensive...
To: allmendream
Only difference is the illegal immigrants are cheaper than their native counterpart.
Exotic pets tend to be more expensive...
To: 1rudeboy
Ok, so exotic pets aren’t “kept,” they are “hired.” Got it.As usual, you "got it" backwards:
kept
–adjective
2. having the expression of principles, ideas, etc., controlled, dominated, or determined by one whose money provides support: a kept press; a kept writer.
Illegal aliens are kept here by the money.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:26:33 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 287 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: jwparkerjr
Don't want your nonnative pet? Turn it in SaturdayCome for the B-B-Q Sunday
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:29:00 AM PST
by
Oratam
To: ejonesie22
And as soon as we enforce the laws and go after their employers, illegal labor will be more expensive than native labor, and they will go home when what they came here for (paying jobs) is no longer available to them.
The specter of deporting millions of illegals is a red herring. They didn't need a government program to get here, and they wont need one to go home when they are no longer able to make a living here and repatriate dollars back home.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:29:09 AM PST
by
allmendream
(Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be RE-distributed?)
To: allmendream
As soon as is the operative concept of course...
There is a plus now that will help, our native labor force has grown.
The illegal immigrant issue was as much about availability as it was costs.
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