Here is another thought....



Back in 1978 a friend of my friends trapped a Coyote that had a metal ear tag that proved it was stocked by the PA Game commission...it was a Wolf Hybrid Coyote....They absolutely denied this fact....but now they accept it, and it is readily accepted that the Eastern Coyote is a Wolf/Coyote hybrid cross. The truth is the reason they were stocked was to control the deer population. Western Coyotes are not pack animals and max out at about 25 pounds, the Wolf/Coyote hybrid acts as a pack animal and reaches a moderate weight of about 60-70 pounds. These animals can and do control the deer population!.... Car insurance companies most likely funded the deal.



Now take the release of Burmese pythons....Florida in particular is over-run with a huge rodent called the Nutria...the wet-lands are flourishing with them, but it is said they are destroying farm lands and causing much farm crop damage....

What if these Burmese were let go strategically to control these Nutria populations?

The pet trade is taking the heat for it....

How long would it really take for these animals to acclimate and find mates and then populate thousands and thousands of acres to actually cause a problem and be a hazard?

If there are that many there...why not catch them and sell them in the pet trade? LOLOLOL...



Just my 2 cents.



Andy
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