I meant to reply back that I probably misunderstood what was meant by ranched. That certainly changes things.



>>I agree. Clearly they are used for more than just pets, but to me it doesn't matter. Taking them from the wild is taking them from the wild, whether you put them in a rubbermaid or a medicine bottle. The effect to the wild population is the same.



I didn't meant to imply that taking large number for other reasons was any better. I was simply commenting on how a story like this tends to be used (and I don't mean by you) to show the "evils" of the pet trade, when I think (but don't really know) that the pet trade is a small segment.
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What goes up must come down...unless it exceeds escape velocity.

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• 170,000 Ball Pythons - chrish, Fri Oct 31 06:44:21 2008
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