For years we escaped with just small blurbs on news. But many folks do not remember when this really started to snowball, and it happened in October 2005 when the infamous Burmese python with gator was shown around the world. That caught the scientists who saw a golden $$ oppurtunity, the politicians who could hang their hat on, and for the animal rights groups who could say "I told you so all along". It just all finally came together in 2009 creating the perfect storm. I remember when FWC started holding workshops on planning on what to do with the now ROC group as far back as August of 2005. You know how many large python people attended the ones I was at? Maybe 1 or 2 each time! I'd say 50% was venomous keepers and the rest was large animal keepers. It was totally absurd.

The problem is the media now has zeroed in on this and they will stop when it's done. If the media got the current President elected, it will get pythons banned and god knows what else after..

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• It seems like... - SouthernSerpent, Mon Mar 15 00:22:04 2010
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• Totally agree Brad.. - Annulata, Mon Mar 15 09:35:53 2010
• RE: Totally agree Brad.. - emysbreeder, Tue Mar 16 11:20:33 2010
• RE: Totally agree Brad.. - emysbreeder, Tue Mar 16 11:37:01 2010
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• Good point Vic. - jscrick, Wed Mar 17 08:57:52 2010