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Danny Conner
at Tue Sep 15 08:55:27 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Danny Conner ]
In my old feeble brain the most important thing in animal ownership is care of the animal. Bottom line this animal was well cared for. For you clearly the most important factor is a ROC permit. Which from the look of your list you don't have or need. If you bothered to read any of my previous posts I stated I don't live in FL. Hopefully I have all my facts right.
This ROC permit law was institued in Jan '08. FWC gave people until July '08 to comply. I agree that is plenty of time.
Of course this owner had already owned this snake 14-15 years.
I'm not from FL but as a Texan that would piss me off. I own an animal for 14-15 years without incident, I take perfect care of it, and it appears very few people are even aware of its existance and now the govt. says I need a permit. That wouldn't jive with me. However, months ago when another loser boy from FL, staged a fake burm capture FWC seemed to be in bed with this guy. Let me give you the recap. A "snake trapper" calls the media because a large(not really) burmese python was found in a culvert near an elementary school. The media shows up I'm not sure about FWC. As the story unfolds the trapper had bought the animal 2 weeks before at a wholesalers. He poked and prodded the animal until it struck. I'll go out on a limb and say the ONLY reason he purchased this animal was for this scenario. So I'm thinking the 2 weeks of ownership prior to the setup the snake probably had very poor care.
FWC ALLOWED HIM TO RETAIN POSSESSION OF THIS SNAKE!!!
Since you don't actually OWN any Burms I will assume to know more than you. There isn't 3 people that have ever visited this forum that have kept a Burm alive for 16 years. It just isn't that easy.
In my mind FWC should have showed up for the school burm. Scanned it check for a chip. If the snake is chipped, which I can't imagine, they find out right there it belongs to the trapper.(incredibly funny) If not chipped once they discover ownership the trapper is fined, snake confiscated, lose trappers license and a fine for trying to incite a riot. Face it it's like yelling fire in a crowded building. Burms are taking over our schools keep your children at home but don't turn on the tv the president may be talking.
One last thing about living in glass houses. You own the MOST aggressive breed of dog. People who Rotts, Dobermans, and German Shepards hate you. There dogs were bred for other reasons than just killing. Yet people lump them in the same catergory as pits. Even though pits per number maim and kill more than these other dogs. The Burmese python is the ambassador to the snake world. There is no reason why such a large extremely powerful animal would be so gentle. Other big snakes are more aggressive by nature. Other large animals are more aggressive by nature.
The Burm is an enigma. The biggest differance between Pits and Burms besides the massive numbers of maimings and deaths caused by pits is who is being killed. 99% of the time in a snake related death the person who dies is the owner/primary care taker. Seldom it is an innocent. Even when it is an innocent they "live with" the snake. Conversly 99% of Pits maimings, and deaths happn to innocents. People who have no relationship to the dog other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. There is an inherit danger to the owner of a big snake. There is an inherit danger if your neighbor owns a Pit. D.C.
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RE: Witch Hunt? - Danny Conner, Tue Sep 15 08:55:27 2009