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Lucille
As a comparison, rats and rodents in general do a lot of harm in agricultural states, but some people keep them as pets. But unlike the reptile pet industry in Florida, the rat pet industry is small and not very affluent and no one seems to be trying to stop people from keeping rats as pets.
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According to an 2005 FWC study, there are at least 5.3 million feral and free-ranging cats in the state of Florida that annually kill nearly 120 million small mammals and 30 million birds. Who knows how many native reptiles they kill. Yet they allow Neuter and release.