Comments on: Game on: Crist orders python purge

By: megan

megan — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:16:34 +0000

I would like to now how many people do you need to tran for the Everglades and the snakes problems. I would like to help and sign up.Lean about how i can become a snake bonita.

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Post On Politics » Blog Archive » Post on Politics - — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:13:45 +0000

[...] Florida set off demands for an open-season on the snakes, which have overrun the national park. Gov. Charlie Crist gladly complied and ordered the bounty hunt for the pests last week. (U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, has had the [...]

By: Walter J. Tucker

Walter J. Tucker — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:14:13 +0000

My thought it should not gone this
far,when they were found this issue
should have been taken care of,and
not gone this far !!!

W.J.T

By: Henry Smith

Henry Smith — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:08:30 +0000

How quickly the sheeple take the media’s bait!

FACTS: No child or otherwise has been hurt by a wild python in the Everglades, or even all of Florida. An “escaped” pet killed the child in central FL, not a wild one. And on that front, it looks to me like the parents may have caused the poor child’s death and tried to explain it with the python cover-up (better than admitting to murder, right?), which wouldn’t have been so difficult to create. After all, what python keeper would run looking for a knife to kill the snake when discovered on his child, when he could easily unwrap that relatively puny snake immediately by grabbing the head or tail? He could also tease the snake into striking the child’s head / face to make it look like it had bitten in preparation to eating. Anyone with a lick of experience with captive pythons knows that, but the public and politicians are clueless.

2nd FACT: To those calling for a ban on these environmental hazards, be sure to add cats and dogs to the list, and be ready to destroy their pets when the law is enacted. Feral cats are thousands of times more ecologically destructive than pythons.

3rd FACT: It’s too late for this silly ‘purge’ plan to have any effect at all except to let a few politicians show the naive public they’re “doing something”, and let a handful of good ol’ boys have some fun hunting them, which will largely be fruitless anyway when compared to the numbers purportedly out there. At least our taxes aren’t paying for their efforts! It’ll make some great “trophy” photos in the tabloids, especially when a few indigos, king snakes and diamondbacks get strung up alongside the pythons.

By: bigdaddy

bigdaddy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:55:55 +0000

outlaw them all and send them to mexico.oh while were at it send the illegals with’em.The rest of the snake’s kill’em.

By: PahokeeBill

PahokeeBill — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:04:35 +0000

I will kill any I see, I don’t need a permitt to protect myself from a big snake.

By: damjoq

damjoq — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:43:12 +0000

Who cares. They are eating the natural wildlife. They should be extinguished by any means necessary at this point. We are being overtaken by all of the exotic pets that people just couldn’t live without and then dumped. All of the different lizards, snakes, etc. I have no baby birds this year thanks to the lizards in my area.

By: c.bradley

c.bradley — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:18:05 +0000

Killing, violence is never an answer to any problem. As usual the problem is caused by irresponsible people.
However more importantly the laws for selling, keeping or not keeping preferably, exotic creatures need to be addressed in greater detail and enforced.
I am not too fond of snakes – most probably more out of fear than anything, but I do wish that these magnificent creatures could find sanctuary somewhere be it a zoo or a private sanctuary.

By: Marilee

Marilee — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:13:00 +0000

I am an evironmentalist and animal lover. This new order leaves me a bit conflicted. I hate to see a bounty placed on any animal, as it has been misused in the past against native animals deemed “pests”, such as mountain lions and wolves, now endangered.

However, it can’t be denied that the exotic, non native pythons are truly causing havoc in the Everglades, killing untold numbers of endangered native wildlife, not to forget, children too. They are a huge danger to the health of the Everglades, and to people. They simply do not belong in Florida.

So, reluctantly, I have to agree that it appears the only way to control their numbers is to place some kind of bounty on the snakes, hoping that native snakes won’t be accidentally included in the roundup and killed too.