Snake fan hunts pythons in Florida to save other critters


lifestyle | 207496 hits | May 06 9:23 am | Posted by: N_Fiddledog
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Florida is paying $8.10 an hour to hunt invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades.

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  1. by avatar N_Fiddledog
    Sat May 06, 2017 4:44 pm


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nRGgkSgGS4

  2. by avatar Strutz
    Sat May 06, 2017 6:17 pm
    Invasive species are always a problem. With the estimates they have on the number of these pythons it may be too late to turn things around there.

  3. by avatar BeaverFever
    Sat May 06, 2017 9:36 pm
    I went to university in Florida and pythons were a popular dorm room pet because all the dude-bros thought feeding it live mice was like, totally awesome and badass dude.

    They should just ban these things from pet stores.

  4. by avatar Strutz
    Sat May 06, 2017 11:09 pm
    "BeaverFever" said
    I went to university in Florida and pythons were a popular dorm room pet because all the dude-bros thought feeding it live mice was like, totally awesome and badass dude.

    They should just ban these things from pet stores.

    Along with other creatures that are not meant to be pets.

  5. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Sat May 06, 2017 11:33 pm
    Well, he was pissed when they fed his teacup poodle to it....ribbons and rhinestone collar included.

  6. by avatar BeaverFever
    Sun May 07, 2017 12:20 am
    Wouldn't you be?

  7. by avatar Hyack
    Sun May 07, 2017 2:55 am
    "BeaverFever" said
    I went to university in Florida and pythons were a popular dorm room pet because all the dude-bros thought feeding it live mice was like, totally awesome and badass dude.

    They should just ban these things from pet stores.


    I really think it's too late for that now....they are definitely reproducing at a prodigious rate all by themselves!

  8. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Sun May 07, 2017 5:14 am
    It's the same problem as with feral pigs and wild boars set free across western Canada and down in the southern States. They are breeding in the wild and really they have no predators.

  9. by avatar Hyack
    Sun May 07, 2017 5:33 am
    Brings to mind the introduction of 100 Starlings set loose in New York's Central Park in the early 1890s. The birds were intentionally released by a group who wanted America to have all the birds that Shakespeare ever mentioned. Today, more than 200 million European Starlings range from Alaska to Mexico.....thanks a lot..... :evil: :evil:

    The European starling was purposefully introduced to North America in 1890–1891 by the American Acclimatization Society, an organization dedicated to introducing European flora and fauna into North America for cultural and economic reasons. Eugene Schieffelin, chairman at the time, allegedly decided all birds mentioned by William Shakespeare should be in North America. The bird had been mentioned in Henry IV, Part 1, and a hundred of them were released from New York's Central Park.

  10. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Sun May 07, 2017 5:51 am
    Or cats in Oz.....or rabbits.

  11. by avatar raydan
    Sun May 07, 2017 12:20 pm
    ...or moose in Newfoundland.

  12. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Sun May 07, 2017 11:35 pm
    Hey...hey...hey. Dems good eatin'.

  13. by Sunnyways
    Tue May 09, 2017 3:42 am
    Why would anybody keep a large snake in their house? I can't help shaking my head while reading this thread.



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