I'm not concerned with the good herpers, personally. I'm concerned with the bad ones who release their 12 foot pythons when they get "too big to handle" and who are not responsible with their snakes when they do take them out. Those are the ones who increase problems.

I was at the Junior Museum here today, where my former sister-in-law has many local snakes in display cages for children and adults to view. A group of elderly ladies (Red Hat Society) came through to see the crime scene event and happened to walk by the reptiles on their way in. Only two of the ladies thought the snakes were beautiful, but both said that when they find snakes in their yards they kill them. Most of the other ladies were convinced that the snakes in the tanks were venomous, even though she and I assured them they were not. They all visibly shuddered when she mentioned that she feeds the herps every Thursday and that the public is welcome to come view them. One lady said she used to like snakes until she held one and now she can't stand them.

It was interesting to see a good-sized portion of our local voters and their natural reactions to snakes. Even the two ladies who thought the snakes were beautiful, if faced with legislation to limit snake ownership, I would bet they'd vote in favor of the limitations. It's human nature, even if they "like" the snakes.



By the way, next time I'm there, I'm going to take my camera in and get some pictures of her beautiful snakes. She even has one Florida Pinesnake in there.
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Holly



0.1 Lavender California Kingsnake (Lizzie Borden) (missing )
1.0 Florida Kingsnake possible mix (Eddie Gein)
1.0 Bearded Dragon (Charley Manson)
1.0 Orange Marmalade Cat (Oliver)
1.0 Egyptian Arabian (Bagan)

2.0 Toddlers (Justice & Trevor)

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