That's fine, except they should acknowledge the dishonesty of blaming and stereotyping pet owners. Dishonesty is dishonesty. But I guess if the end justifies the means...



"Ecological disaster?" I could easily be ignorant of other evidence, but so far the only evidence I've seen supporting the idea that the pythons are wreaking havoc in the everglades is the

stomach contents of 5 or 6 captured pythons (out of a how many hundred?) that were HAND-PICKED after the stomach contents were exposed. Is there more evidence than this? What about the stomach contents of all the other pythons examined? Wouldn't pythons also eat common, invasive animals that harm indigenous wildlife? Don't indigenous animals use python eggs and pythons as a food source? The workings of the ecosystem is not as simple as looking at the stomach contents of half a dozen snakes.





Thanks,

Ed











>>In my social circles of non-herp folks...it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how the pythons got there, what matters is that they are there. If there had been better legislation and fewer pythons in the first place, Hurricane Andrew would be the python related ecological disaster that it is.

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>>Those aren't my words, by the way, just paraphrasing what I hear.

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