Here are the facts. Burmese pythons cannot tolerated temps lower than 30 degrees, they die or get sick then die. Burmese pythons will never expand further north than naples, it gets below 30 degrees every year and they will die. Every 10 yrs or so there is a cold snap that reaches the everglades and will kill the majority of the animals. Burmese pythons don't lay clutches of 100 eggs and clutches of 40 or more are very rare with the wild pythons and only a very small number of those will live past 2 yrs, there are too many predators for snakes less than 6 ft long down there. HSUS and PETA are huge financial contributors to Sen Nelson. I fished at least 15 times a month in the everglades for 6 yrs and never saw a python, even when looking for them and I am a very experienced field herper and several of those times I was with someone that caught them in their native lands. The savannah river ecology lab delayed publishing their findings of cold mortality until the Lacey Act ruling after a request from HSUS. Burmese pythons don't belong in the everglades just like cats, dogs, most fish you find down there, Bufo toads, roads, drainage ditches, cane fields and PEOPLE. There are many much more dangerous things in miami than burmese pythons like gangs, drug dealers, drug users, cars, 5 gallon buckets (yes appr 5 children die every year after drowning in 5 gallon buckets), stray dogs, cats, raccoons, sharks, jelly fish and spear guns. My recommendation is everyone south of naples is forced to move north, take a bull dozer and level and remove any trace of people in South florida and allow the ecosystem to recover naturally. If everyone that says burmese pythons are dangerous to the ecology of the Glades isn't willing to move NOW they need to quit using that as a debating point. I do not have a problem with people going and killing and removing these feral animals. I do have a problem with false "facts" being spread as true facts.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto


Various Ball Pythons, boas, dogs, cats, fish, a couple sulcatas and a few other odds and ends.


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• FL - JYohe, Fri Jan 18 14:09:05 2013
• RE: FL - Steve_Markevich, Fri Jan 18 19:10:35 2013
• RE: FL - Buzzardball, Fri Jan 18 21:29:44 2013
• "senseless fear"??? - geckoejon, Sat Jan 19 08:51:56 2013
• RE: "senseless fear"??? - Daleporcher, Sat Jan 19 10:22:14 2013
• RE: "senseless fear"??? - geckoejon, Sat Jan 19 11:29:01 2013
• expanding... - geckoejon, Sat Jan 19 11:44:49 2013
• RE: expanding... - ghireptiles, Sat Jan 19 21:26:29 2013
• RE: expanding...or fear-mongering? - Steve_Markevich, Sat Jan 19 21:54:37 2013
• Nobody drives to the everglades... - ghireptiles, Sat Jan 19 21:20:11 2013
• RE: Nobody drives to the everglades... - geckoejon, Mon Jan 21 05:08:00 2013
• RE: Nobody drives to the everglades... - Buzzardball, Mon Jan 21 07:35:49 2013
• RE: Nobody drives to the everglades... - joshhutto, Tue Jan 22 09:39:28 2013
• He's so full of crap it's amazing - ghireptiles, Sat Jan 19 21:20:38 2013
• RE: FL - LibertyReptiles, Sun Jan 20 12:13:56 2013