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Posted by: Danny Conner at Tue Nov 10 08:33:03 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Danny Conner ]  
   

When the water district guy was talking abou fencing off the farms and "finding" 150 snakes. All I can think is the farmer scratching his head and saying "you mind leaving a couple of those boomeese pythons behind."

This farmer has never been this rat free, EVER.

At shows when people tell me they have a snake problem I tell them no you have a rat problem. Get rid of the rats and the snakes will leave. ANY farmer who raises produce embraces nonvenemous snakes. Obviously poultry farms do not. Which is why poultry farms are overrun with rodents.

I never met a farmer yet who was concerned with the wellfare of rodents endangered or not.

How about the chart showing all the stuff a burm will consume over a 5-7 year period. I thought where are the feral cats on this chart. Common sense tells you there has to be some nuisance animals on the chart. They are nuisance because their numbers are out of control. THIS will be the prey items that burms will eat first. They aren't going to pass up a perfectly good meal to wait for an endangered animal.

When water boy unrolled that python skin I was furious. Right then I felt like anything should go like having 10 local 5th graders walk in with an alive 12 foot Burmese python. And all those photos of the gator burm homicide suicide match.

HOWEVER one of my favorite comments was in the beginning when Meeks said Burmese pythons grow faster and reach maturity quicker than every other predator in the ENP, including the gator.

Well he was part right the alligator is clearly the slowest maturing of all animals. But all carnivorous mammals and birds will reach sexual maturity well before a wild Burmese.

My wife thought the Vet was the smartest of the panel. But he did say a lot of stuff that did not help. And he was such a poor speaker... When he said look at the way the people on the video are handling that giant burm. That is not the way you hande a dangerous animal. I don't think they understood THIS BURM IS NOT DANGEROUS. I think they thought he was questioning their handling abilities. Plus when he said that he was laughing. I was laughing to. It is funny to think that ANY number of people could so nonchalantly handle a DANGEROUS snake that size. Once again I felt the commitee just saw a crazy old man laughing at a joke none of them got.

Lastly(for now, I promise) I know why Andrew didn't take HSUS to task when she repeatedly said if you remove the Burmese python from the pet industry they will simply shift to another species.

I know Andrew didn't want to throw Burms under the bus. But this was his best opportunity to shred this nonherper. I'm not talking about boas because obviously they shouldn't be on this list. But every other species put together will never reach the popularity of the Burmese. This is when Andrew states that Burms are the ambassadors to the snake world. They are an enigma. What other large predator would allow itself to be lifted and manipulated and photographed and drug around.Only the Burm.

I keep all the giants and I have several tame retics BUT every big snake owner knows Burms are on a whole other level of tameness. This is a slippery slope because you are admitting to a certain level of aggressiveness in other species. Then you explain that this works as a culling process for how serious a potential owner may be. D.C.


   

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    • RE: What Problem? - emysbreeder, Mon Nov 9 23:02:51 2009 image in post
    • You Are HereSo I'm not the only one... - Danny Conner, Tue Nov 10 08:33:03 2009

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