LOL! Only one Python captured per 30 hunters.
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02/10/2013 1:50:33 PM PST by
PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix
Yeah, but the local sales rep for Jack Daniels probably did very well.
Serious question: Do Pythons make good eats?
2 posted on
02/10/2013 1:53:51 PM PST by
BenLurkin
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3 posted on
02/10/2013 1:54:22 PM PST by
American in Israel
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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.
5 posted on
02/10/2013 2:00:14 PM PST by
allendale
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More than 1,500 participants of a monthlong python challenge have helped to capture 50 Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades.
1400 Hunters missing.
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Wow, I misread that and thought it was a 50 foot python!
8 posted on
02/10/2013 2:09:42 PM PST by
Boiling point
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Wow, I misread that and thought it was a 50 foot python!
9 posted on
02/10/2013 2:09:54 PM PST by
Boiling point
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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.
To: PJ-Comix
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.
![](http://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.prod.vetstreet.com/47/0868c0692711e197a3005056ad4734/file/pythondogs335aa030812.jpg)
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".
11 posted on
02/10/2013 2:24:15 PM PST by
AnAmericanMother
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To: PJ-Comix
Or they could just release
this...
It only infects pythons and constrictors, none of which are native to the area..
12 posted on
02/10/2013 2:26:04 PM PST by
null and void
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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.
14 posted on
02/10/2013 2:39:32 PM PST by
Drew68
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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.
17 posted on
02/10/2013 2:57:19 PM PST by
VeniVidiVici
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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.
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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.
To: PJ-Comix
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...........
27 posted on
02/10/2013 3:18:03 PM PST by
Hot Tabasco
(Jab her with a harpoon or just throw her from the train......)
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What they need is a severe freeze.
29 posted on
02/10/2013 3:26:05 PM PST by
fso301
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where the snakes live, people can’t penetrate. the vegetationis just too thick
34 posted on
02/10/2013 4:10:22 PM PST by
bert
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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.
35 posted on
02/10/2013 4:20:08 PM PST by
Irish Queen
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36 posted on
02/10/2013 4:44:17 PM PST by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
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So...did they have a Cook - Off afterwords?
40 posted on
02/10/2013 6:39:20 PM PST by
SandRat
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Me thinks those boyz kept 5 for the skins for every 1 they turned in. $$$
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02/11/2013 2:23:47 AM PST by
poobear
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