guys... I guess I'm just not a python person (ANYMORE, mostly keep lizards) however I love the smaller species. about 8 years ago my first roommate and I were good friends and we had a nasty tiger retic male (beautiful specimen) and a few burms. we also had a few locales of boa. one time we had him out of his enclosure (he was around 13ft.) just to move to a new house but we had done it for soaking. a little too much handling (about 30 seconds total) was enough to make him so ticked him struck me in my right side near my kidney and I instantly went out. lights out, on the floor. I fractured a rib! my roommate and I were handling him together and he said the strike was amazing, but the point is it's an injurious animal! we knew this animal didn't like to be handled but sometimes you have no choice, we bought him as an adult from a breeder who told us, he hates everything. (we were 17, good call on his part!). most people aren't smart with these awesome animals like you all.

our burms and other snakes were amazing, his snakes he keeps are still amazing (same burms included). but I think these animals who are loose in the southeast NEED to be rounded up, and sent somewhere. euthanasia is a dirty word, but so is feral.

feral cats chase koalas out of their territorial trees in the outback, how would you like retics to do that to the few American Crocodile we have? not to mention all the other feral aussie species!!

I will not back a python ban, but i do back destroying these animals in the everglades and other areas. i don't need to read the report, i don't care. it's the responsible thing to do, snake handlers released them.

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