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I just came accross this video from Wednesday....Please listen carefully to what the Senator says....

This guy wants to ban these snakes, and actually...I think they will...This is very alarming!

Here is the link, I hope this works...Let me know.

Andy Federico

cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/256.0/popup/index.php?cl=7137485
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I like the senators quote on how they are messing up the native wildlife by eating. I guess he doesnt want to think on how much mankind has done to destroy the habitats of those native wildlife. life someone else said before, I wonder how many are loose from the hurricanes.
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Here is more...

This is Jan. 1st law already!

http://cbs4.com/watercooler/florida.snake.microchip.2.621415.html

Andy
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If so many people are releasing their captive born pet Burmese Pythons loose in the Everglades, where are all the morphs?
Are they finding Albinos, Greens, Labyrinths, etc? Not hearing anything about that. There would be a reasonable percentage of heterozygous for such things in that wild feral population, if indeed they are released pets that are reproducing in the wild. There should be a reasonable number of "Morphs" in any sample population, shouldn't there? Never hear anything about finding Burmese morphs in the Everglades. Seems to me a large Albino would be even more newsworthy.
Throws their whole premise, as to the origin of this snake population into question.
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

I have over the years run across countless people trying to sell albino Burms for $50 - $300 and a alot at the low end...and I would never buy one...
I would think that if they can't sell them for $50 they would have released even 1 or 2 into that wild Florida grass land! Seems someone should be holding up some Yellow burms when they pull their hand from that bag!

Well, my thoughts and opinions are still the same: ...the Florida game dept. released them years ago to control the nutria problems, and now that they are multiplying and being found...they want pet owners to take the rap for it instead of them!

Andy
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The sad part is that people are making it easy for things like this to happen. The animals themselves aren't causing a problem. They are just trying to survive after the idots who buy them as a temporary "novelty" release them into the wild. If this type of thing keeps up at the rate that it is, I don't see any real way to stop the government from trying to take action. Unfortunately, government tends to go overboard every time they make an attempt to "control" something.
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