If you disagree with banning Pythons and other Exotics in Florida...

luevelvet

luevelvet

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There's a poll on the Orlando Sentinel's site asking whether we should or shouldn't ban all pythons in Florida. If you don't know the details, the long and short of it is, Bill Nelson wants to ban everything in the Python genus which includes ball pythons, carpet pythons etc etc...

In my opinion, this is the wrong approach to ever more media friendly Burmese Python hype, but to each their own.

Here is the link to vote. The deadline is 5pm today.

Thanks!

Luis
 
Poll: Ban pythons & other exotic snakes?

Should Florida ban pythons and other exotic snakes?

  • Yes (597 responses)
    44.0%
  • No (760 responses)
    56.0%
1357 total responses
(Results not scientific)
 
I vote to ban "banning poles".....:rolleyes:

I voted "No"


Poll: Ban pythons & other exotic snakes?
Should Florida ban pythons and other exotic snakes?

Yes (597 responses)

43.2%
No (784 responses)

56.8%
1381 total responses

(Results not scientific)


-Jay
 
This is horrible logic. Also i hate how it is reactive instead of proactive. How about permits? Hm? Or not using a sheet/blanket for a lid for a big ass snake cage when you have a small kid in the house? Idiot...
 
I voted yes even though I do not live in Florida, my reasoning being that they are already being overwelmed by pythons and it is hurting the natural environment. If there is a decision between having them and not having them I think it should be no.

The poll should of had something about permits because I would have voted for that instead. But people are picking up these snakes (not realizing how big they get) and then they release them into the wild because they can not handle them.

They are an invasive species. We do not want something to happen in Florida that has happened other places such as Guam (loss of nearly all song birds due to the Green Tree Snake)
 
Hey Rocky,

I do respect your position on the topic. Sp please don't take my comments negatively. :)

Maybe you're not aware of the permit system that was instituted in 2008 for 6 invasion reptile species, including Burmese and Retics. The permits require you to microchip and pay $100 for each animal. It also doesn't allow stores to sell these animals without special permits. This permit system has taken a great deal of burms and retics out of the stores thus making them less available.

It will take more time than a year to confirm that any of these bills will help. They can't even prove that the current Burms in the everglades were released by irresponisble owners. I did read somewhere that the majority that were captured from the everglades were related to a few escapees from Hurricane Andrew, but who knows for sure.

Luis
 
We too ;) Our politicans just know that war is expensive :p I just mean there are so many things which kill much more people...how about ban cars ?:rolleyes: I hat those populists
 
I think if a burmese can survive a ball will probably survive as well. I have no problems with people owning snakes, I just have problems with irresponsible people having them and deciding later that they don't want them and letting them free.

Maybe there should be a test to get them :p, Something asking questions that pertain to the specie and how much they know about them.
 
eisentrauti said:
We too ;) Our politicans just know that war is expensive :p I just mean there are so many things which kill much more people...how about ban cars ?:rolleyes: I hat those populists
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Also, I don't think these bills are being set up because they kill people. It's because they are destroying local environments. I know there are a few documented cases where an alligator and burmese have killed each other.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0603_040603_invasivespecies.html - In that article (a little old) they say that invasive species and control of them has cost around $137 billion.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1006_051006_pythoneatsgator.html - Burmese ate an alligator. Didn't realize it couldn't because it isn't a natural prey.

In one of my classes last semester we had a pretty large lecture over how invasive the Burmese Python and some Boas are to the everglades. I would suggest anyone that has an interest in the subject to read this: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/UW286 . At least the first section.
 
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