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Anyone know any hot spots for non-natives in South Florida? I need to catch some burms...

If you want a Burm, but don't want to buy one or want to save one, why not just adopt one from somewhere?

I don't think this is a sound idea. I'm all for saving those burms down there, but I fear if people pick them up, it may encourage more people to dump theirs there and call more attention to this. Something no one needs.

Fish and Wildlife kills all the burms they find. Going to Burma is a lot more expensive than driving an hour. I get enough free burms handed to me that I don't need to find them in the wild to get any. Mostly what I am looking for is big mean snakes to work with. Most of the mean snakes that come to my shop tame out quickly because they are handled so often. Or they're not mean at all and the previous owner just lacked handling experience to know the difference between untame and mean. I want to man handle big mean snakes and lizards, and freehand venemous. Push it to the limit or don't push it at all.

Where in south FL are you located?Seems to me they are popping up in the glades just about weekly,and they are pputting them down REGULARLY in Lee Co. where I am (Ft.Myers)I also saw a rather large non-indigenous snake of some sort @ Big Cypress last weekend in the water (what there is of it).I'm not sure exactly what type it was,as it was 50-60 feet from me in the water,and I could wrestle my field glasses from my kids fast enough to get a close look.I do know that from what I could see as he went across the top of the water he APPEARED 10-12 feet long,so I'm sure that means he was around 5-6 feet,LOL.Anyhoo,he was WAY to long and big-boddied to be local.I just went this weekend to have Avid chips put in all my snakes Saturday,and one of the officers told me about a snake they just picked up a few days ago,that had stretched himself across both lanes of Rt.82 to sun himself,and SOMEHOW managed to not get run over.He said they "measured" him @ 16 feet (so Im assuming 10-12 is more accurate LOL),but they said they don't have the facilities for big Boids so they get put down usually within a day or two He asked me if he could keep my # handy for the next one they got alive,if I could give it a temp home or help possibly connect it with an owner that would actually care for it.He also said they are required to call trappers for big stuff,and the property owners have to pay to have it removed.I told him sure,I would do what I could to help one stay alive a little longer or save someone who couldn't afford a few hunderd bux to have one removed.Not sure if anything will ever become of it,but who knows?

I live in boynton beach, but I drive out near turner river, khrome ave, and 27. I've never seen anything non-native, other than cuban knight anoles and iguanas. I need some WC tegus, monitors, and burms. That would be sweet. I like getting to work with mean stuff. Most animals that get returned to the shop I work at aren't mean even if people swear they're vicious. They'll strike a few times and then it's over. I need some mean/wants to kill you stuff.