The problem is they are not stupid. At first I thought going after big snake people was a bold but incredibly foolhardy move.

There are lots of people with big snakes and there are a lot of people breeding them with some amazing morphs.

As a croc guy I always thought my crocs would be in jeopardy before my big snakes. I honestly thought that venemous snakes would be first on the hit list then closely followed by crocs.

After all in the publics eye is their a worst pet than a venemous snake, I doubt it. They are a much smaller group of keepers. They don't generate near the income. And even to a lot of keepers venemous keepers are out there.(currently I have several rattlesnakes and cottonmouths, a couple of cobras, and a puff. I'm not a huge venemous guy but I keep some).

But my point is if ball python owners can't relate to big snake keepers they have absolutely no use for venemous keepers.

Here is the brillant part.

Venemous snakes are'nt taking over the Everglades and wreaking havoc on local wildlife. It was'nt a venemous snake that supposedly killed a 2 yr old girl in FL.

Look at all the support generated by these 2 events. You have conservationist, and you have family safety groups.

There is a huge diverse group of people that are influenced by the burmese.

Could all the same be said about venemous?

Absolutely, but they are not imported and bred in the same numbers. And they don't show up in numbers in peoples yards.

This was a brillant move and the AR groups know that after this fight venemous and croc keepers will be easy pickings. D.C.

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