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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flbpythons0306sbmar06,0,7773882.story
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Jonathan Brady
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I'm thinking we should at least do our part and vote for "NOT CONCERNED AT ALL" on their article.
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Seeking bigger cages for the family

Seeing that 72% are "very concerned" explains the current legislation being proposed. People can argue the science all day, but the constituents are raving!

"It may be too late to stop the invasion of the Everglades," said Beth Preiss, director of the exotic pets campaign for The Humane Society of the United States. "But it's not too late to stop it in the rest of the country."

I live in a very 'high risk' area for "invasion" of these terryfying pythons. Once they make it to Georgia they're home free for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The habitat is perfect. There are plenty of "wading birds, small mammals and anything else they can squeeze to death" around here. I might just have to get an "anti-python" fence.

Although I am making light of it so many people are ignorant to the fact that pythons -in this case the Burmese- CANNOT survive in certain areas. We fear what we do not know, and all the negative hype about snakes "invading our country" isn't helping when plenty of people already view them as 'evil' creatures. i know I'm preaching to the choir on this one but harumph.

-cyrus

Well, it's not a matter if they can survive *now*. With rampant global warming, Michigan will be a temperate swamp in what...a hundred years?

OK, a little tongue in cheek, but didn't the USGS article that the Sun Sentinel article referenced allude to something along those lines?

Here in Texas we already have a python registry law. Its not a ban just a keep track of kind of thing. Anyone with the sense god gave a chicken knows that even if feral pythons started getting a foothold in Texas, even with "global warming" , every few years there comes a norther so cold that it kills the mangroves on the coast and orange trees in south Texas.

It looks pretty hopeless to me. I'm just going to get a fella for my girl and go on about my business.