We all need to take on responsibility for ourselves, our animals and others in this hobbie through training, educating and mentoring. I am not a python person...but I have two that I have had for many years that other people were going to dispose of illegaly so I took them to keep that from happening. I would never condone anyone releasing captive animals, native or non-native back into the wilds. I don't think anyone is trying to "justify" the problem in the ENP. It is my opinion that the film on NG was not scientifically fair and balanced. For instance, the cage that was built around the nesting Burmese python to protect her nests and to see how many hatched. Why was that cage built? To contain the babies when they hatched and to keep "predators" from destroying it, but yet the film indicated, as many have commented on in this thread, that the snakes have no "natural" predators...all for the purpose of "misleading" the public in thinking that they have no predators by adding the word natural. As another person has said, "it is not even known yet if the Buremse pythons are a threat to the ENP ecosystem." I am for letting the scientific facts fall where they may...but I would prefer that the scientist be above politcal expediency. I, along with many others, wiser then me, have said as much.

Dan

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