Florida Passes Ban On large Snakes

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-b...-92325419.html

That's so stupid...

The snakes, many of which have been released by owners or escaped during Hurricane Andrew, have been breeding in substantial numbers, with estimates as high as over 100,000 roaming the Everglades and elsewhere.

The latest one, which ended earlier this month, didn't do much good.

So there are over 100,000 but they couldnt even find one...

what all snakes are involved with this ban and what type of funding is it going to recieve i mean honestly this is just ridiculous i guess this means pretty soon we won't be able to keep any type of animals pretty soon pet rocks will come back into fashion

Originally Posted by dustinntech

That's so stupid...






So there are over 100,000 but they couldnt even find one...

hahaha, in the 80's it was killer africanized Bees, then in the 90's it was west nile killer mosquitoes, now it's killer burmese pythons that somehow translate into outlawing your pets!

if this was really about irresponsible pet owners and whats destroying the environment how about outlawing pet cats. feral cats are a nationwide epidemic, and are dangerous to the environment on a much larger scale. why single out and demonize pet snakes?

Originally Posted by jscianni21

what all snakes are involved with this ban and what type of funding is it going to recieve i mean honestly this is just ridiculous i guess this means pretty soon we won't be able to keep any type of animals pretty soon pet rocks will come back into fashion

it's the reptiles of concern. a list of reptiles believed to have established a population in florida or that are considered high risk for starting a population since, according to some officials reptile owners release their deadly pets into the wild as soon as they're old enough to breed

the animals on the ROC list are the burmese python, the nile monitor, the reticulated python, African rock python, Scrub python, Green anaconda, and they might have added a couple more.

In NY they did the same thing several years ago. even banned yellow anacondas which I owned. after the law passed my parents forced me to send them to a collector in ohio... like Anacondas are going to take over NYC sewers.

hasn't fully passed. govenor crist has a week to decide if he wants to sign it.

Originally Posted by Lucas339

hasn't fully passed. govenor crist has a week to decide if he wants to sign it.

he'll sign just to make him self look like he did something good for the enviroment . and use it as a campaign tactic that he is eviromentaly aware . its all bs


i'm gonna start building a rock breeding facility so by 2017 i'll be rdy

Originally Posted by Mikey Triangles

hahaha, in the 80's it was killer africanized Bees, then in the 90's it was west nile killer mosquitoes, now it's killer burmese pythons that somehow translate into outlawing your pets!

if this was really about irresponsible pet owners and whats destroying the environment how about outlawing pet cats. feral cats are a nationwide epidemic, and are dangerous to the environment on a much larger scale. why single out and demonize pet snakes?

its easier to demonize scaley snakes then cute fluffy kitty cats

Originally Posted by jscianni21

its easier to demonize scaley snakes then cute fluffy kitty cats

This is exactly it.

Originally Posted by jscianni21

its easier to demonize scaley snakes then cute fluffy kitty cats

I find it hilarious how they blame the exotic reptiles for the decline of floridas endangered small rodents... meanwhile feral and even PET cats kill off way more then any species of reptile in the state.