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Here's all the info you can read about this propsed bill. It does not only affect reptiles, but a ton of nonnative animals of North America.

Before you start complaing read the link and understand what you are complaining about. There's numerous organizations already out there starting petitions.

Now's the time to act, before it's to late.

Link - Nonnative Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act
H.R. 669

Pitoon

I'm not trying to stop the bill, I just want my snakes removed from it.

the pic that is at the top of those pretty purple flowers are loostrife......they are oretty , and pretty darn invasive....settling all along waterways....they look real cute as they bloom all summer...growing and choking the waterways and wetlands......they are unproductive as food really don't add adequate cover to that many species and are really hard to kill or get rid of.....they were brought here as "butterfly bush".....they choked the snot out of my river here...covering alot of the shorlines......useless cover....tall and not good for squat....covers the mud flats that shorebirds need to feed on /in.........well....certain butterflies feed on it....and other insects....but I don't think any (or more than one possibly)....actually can feed on it as a larval stage (caterpillar)......pull it out is the only way to remove it...but what do you do them? and it grows right back.....cutting it makes it just grow more next year.....can't really walk through it and can't hunt it ......it sucks....

who would think a plant could do that in Pennsylvania?.....

they brought in a beetle to eat it...from Asia (I think ? ) ....but it won't be eaten as fast as it can grow...I guarantee that....

........we need some checks..........

ask the American chestnut association................
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........if burmese get that bad we can have a group hunt and all make vests and boots to remember the day......(after the BBQ )
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BBQ - chicken
BBQ - goat
BBQ - turtle
BBQ - snake
BBQ - turkey
BBQ - frog

what else on the list.......LMAO!!!

Pitoon

why not.......

chicken .......any way you want it....mmmmm

goat ...why not....ate Corsican sheep with oyster sauce ,goat close enough.

turtle ......GOOD recipe online...just Google "Commander's Palace" turtle soup

snake .......never had it yet......that's the thought ....big burms....big grills?.....8 foot long grills for them fillets....!

turkey ....deep fried with lots of dry rubs....

frog .......had enough last night......Chinese buffet.....

........we need checks for imports from outside the USA....stuff already here and breeding in our collections.....not doing much harm.....Florida got a problem with BIG snakes....microchip them...balls are not big snakes....

....anyways....my thought was just IF burms are found in FL...let people take them and eat them?......
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Florida, or at least South Florida, already requires that large pythons (burmese, reticulated, amethystine and maybe others, don't remember, maybe rock pythons?) as well as anacondas be microchipped and that a permit be purchased by the potential owner.
That should prevent those particular snakes from being released to the Everglades or at least it would be a way to find out who the owner was and impose a fine. The problem is how to control the already breeding populations in the wild...
Hopefully ball pythons won't be included in that list because they are not LARGE SNAKES and I don't think they will survive in the Everglades and create a viable population. The environment there is way too wet for a snake that in its natural state lives in arid or semi-arid regions of Africa.
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Neutiquam erro. Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt.

if burms can breed in FL so can retics and balls and all.....

...if there are enough wild non-natives maybe it could just become a wild jungle park?........LOL
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