I kept Green anacondas for almost 20 yrs up until a few years ago before the roc laws went into effect (I have serious issues with microchips and giving up my 4th amendment rights to the fwc.).

A friend of mine who works with chameleons quite extensively was volunteering at the jacksonville zoo a few years back and introduced me to some of his zoo-keeper friends from the zoo. The subject of the discussion went to anacondas due to my friend knowing I worked with them and also due to the fact that they were apparently working with them at the jacksonville zoo as well.

By the end of the conversation, with the exception of my friend who has way more intelligence than the whole sum of his zoo-keeper friends I wouldn't have been willing to let a single one of these idiots within 100 yards of my house (I have acreage.) much less anywhere near my anacondas. I won't bother to get into the water monitors I still maintain.

The word dumbasp comes to mind in reference to these individuals, and yet Those of us in the private sector are considered amatuers and they are the supposed "professionals" who should be the only ones allowed to work with such animals.

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