[PJ-Comix]

LOL! Only one Python captured per 30 hunters.

[BenLurkin]

Yeah, but the local sales rep for Jack Daniels probably did very well.

Serious question: Do Pythons make good eats?

[American in Israel]

Yeah, that worked well.

[allendale]

They should feed 500 neutered stray cats python and then release them in the Everglades. Cats are ferocious hunters and will create havoc in python nests. Better than euthanizing unwanted cats.

[Joan Kerrey]

More than 1,500 participants of a monthlong python challenge have helped to capture 50 Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades.

1400 Hunters missing.

[Boiling point]

Wow, I misread that and thought it was a 50 foot python!

[Boiling point]

Wow, I misread that and thought it was a 50 foot python!

[momtothree]

I’m not a hunter. I know very little about it ... that being said, how does one truly “hunt” a python? You can’t set a trap, can you? I imagine you just sort of wander around and hope you find one.

[AnAmericanMother]

I kid you not, they are now training dogs up at Auburn University to sniff out the pythons.

They do a lot better at it than the human hunters.

Two dogs caught 19 snakes.

EcoDogs Sniff Out Pythons in the Everglades

There's a film -- two hyperactive black Labs that look pretty much like my hyperactive black field trial Lab, a/k/a "Psycho Ruby".

[null and void]

Or they could just release this...

It only infects pythons and constrictors, none of which are native to the area..

[Drew68]

We have the hip-hop crowd to thank for this. Seems if you're a thug, wannabe thug or admirer of thugs, you need a fighting dog and a black-market constricting or venomous snake to maintain your street-cred. Eventually, you come to realize that owning these creatures is a huge pain in the ass so you release them into the 'Glades where a lack of natural predators allows them to thrive and multiply.

Now we've got to hunt them down. Just as well. I could use a new pair of boots.

[VeniVidiVici]

They said on the news that there are probably about 15,000 of them. Though you have to wonder how they come up with that number.

[hinckley buzzard]

They tend to be immobile for long periods and almost impossible to see in the tall grass. They also can lay up to 40-50 eggs at a time so eradicating them by hunting is a nonanswer. They are a real ecological snafu. Maybe we can breed wild boars to take a liking for snake meat. Nothing less will stand a chance against them.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The trick here will be to find something the snakes eat that alligators do not. As has been done on Guam against brown snakes, acetaminophen (generic Tylenol), is deadly to reptiles (and many other animals), so they stuff dead mice with them and it kills the snakes.

However, lots of animals will eat dead mice.

[Hot Tabasco]

The competition began Jan. 12 and ends Feb. 10.

So why the early end to the competition? One would think they would extend it to at least May and maybe even declare an open season on the damn things and offer a bounty on them..........

But then again I don't work for the government...........

[fso301]

What they need is a severe freeze.

[bert]

where the snakes live, people can’t penetrate. the vegetationis just too thick

[Irish Queen]

I have a genuine python wallet and purse. On our Alaskan cruise last summer we dined one evening with a husband and wife and seventeen year old son from Florida. When the young man spotted my wallet he thanked me for helping to save the wildlife of the Everglades from non-native pythons. The subject of his high school term paper was how non-native species endangered the eco-systems of Florida. Snake skin is very durable. After almost a year of use neither the purse or wallet show any wear.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***50 Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades.***

Only fifty? Maybe they should play the music to attract snakes from THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095488/?ref_=sr_1

[SandRat]

So...did they have a Cook - Off afterwords?

[poobear]

Me thinks those boyz kept 5 for the skins for every 1 they turned in. $$$