>>The media like to say Burms get up to 20 feet. The next words out of their mouths "once they get to big the owner can no longer care for them. The general public reads this as pet owners are releasing 18-20 foot burms.
>>Obviously 10 feet or even 8 feet is going to be to big for an ill prepared owner but this is not the medias inference.

Ohhhh. Well, does the "media's inference" really have much to do with the real-world possibility of burms being dumped, one way or the other?

>>Pied...Bivattus said people were calling the zoo trying to dump pied ball pythons and other expensive animals.D.C.

People do dump expensive animals all the time. I myself own two double yellow-headed Amazons that I got for free. I also know of dobermans that cost their owners more than $1000 that were dumped into rescue. It happens, whether it makes any sense or not.
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0.1 Peruvian rainbow boa (Amaru)
2.0 Brazilian rainbow boas (Arco, Olho)
0.3 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Hari)
1.0 Thayeri kingsnake (Coatl)
2.7 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, Uce, TBA)
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters

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