Why are we throwing the baby out with the bath water? First of all if a burmese python had a snow ball’s chance in…. to survive outside of the miniscule feral range they currently inhabit, then boa constrictors from Mexico would be all over the United States. This whole proposal is being based solely off of the damage done by the brown snake in Guam, and now we are allowing jurisprudence to be set to permit the allocation of a number of other species (which most keepers are trying to “protect” while throwing Burms and Rocks to the wolves) to the injurious species lists, which sets them on the chopping block of being banned. All of the ball python keepers out there, that won’t come out of bed to defend Burms... Just wait until your pets are on the chopping block. Think about how much more injurious and potentially dangerous ball pythons will be to the wild than a brown snake? Ball python, Boa constrictor and colubrid breeders are among the largest sects of our community. If you think you’re not next, you need to trade in your rose colored glasses. We’re all going to get hammered on this in the long run if we don’t fight together. Get up off of your chairs and fight people!
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Jay Vella

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