I know I will most likely take some heat for this but something has to be done with pet stores and breeders selling gigantic snakes. I am mostly talking about burms. But if I point them out I can't leave out boas and other large constrictors, but my main concern is burms. They cost very little and they grow at an extremely fast pace especially when you have an owner who thinks its "awesome" to watch a giant constrictor take down a rabbit. I am not going to say we should ban any reptile but something has to be done. Pet stores need to give the owner information on what to do when the snake gets to big and they don't want it anymore. Which happens a large percentage of the time. I meen how many people want to devote and entire room or buy or build a cage that costs triple the price of the snake. When this happens countless irresponsible people just let them go. It will only take a few really bad instances of a burm eating a kid or something like that before politicians ban all large reptiles. THIS IS WHAT IM WORRIED ABOUT. I know, cats and dogs kill many more children and wild animals a year. But when we are talking about politicians facts don't always win the argument, emotions do. And how many people are going to go along with banning little Fido. I just wish there was a place people could and would take there giant snakes when they get too big. And I think the people that sell them need to take more of this responsibility.

Michael Burton

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