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I would like to thank you all for your generous commitments to the reward for the capture and conviction of the person who released the 12 foot Burmese at the port of Tampa last week . We were able to raise over 14,000 in just a few hours for this cause. your all great.
We will keep you posted on the outcome of the investigation
our letter to FWC is below.

Major ,
I am writing you to follow up on our conversation to a commitment from concerned members of the Reptile Industry across the United States. We wish to offer a reward of $14,300.00 U.S. Dollars for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the release or escape of the Burmese Python captured at the Port of Tampa , Florida the week of 13th of December 2009. This commitment is offered to aid in both the awareness of the concerns of the Reptile Industry in Florida and Nationwide as we strive to educate all reptile keepers and pet owners to be responsible for their pets and their actions. Releasing pets into the wild is not acceptable and is illegal.
Please keep me posted of any arrests or court dates that we are able to follow the progress as an Industry and we thank you at FWC for your leadership in the responsible keeping of Reptiles Of Concern.

Below is a list of financial donators to the cause in no particular order. And thanks to all whom pased on the information but were unable to help financially You're all important in this fight to save our pets.

Jet Pythons
John Cashman
Alehandro Garriga
Matt Robertson
Dynasty Reptiles
USARK
Jons Jungle
George Vesper Reptiles
VPI
Signal Herp
Marc Bailey
Cutting Edge Herps
Richard Funderburg
The Snake Keeper
The Florida Rep Room
Snakes at Sunset
Michael Bell
Ed Rossi
Albinos Unlimited
Neil Golli Reptiles
Matt Buchanan
Jeff Galewood
ZOO MED
Scott Austin
Mike Foux
Josh Ketchum
Jeff Luman
Jeremy Hall
Frank Martin
Herps Etc.
Albey Scholl
Cypress Creek Reptiles
Albino Tricolors
Reptile Industries
Shawn Heflick
Graziani Reptiles
Ballroom Pythons South

Donationas after the fact can and will be added to the reward so do not hesitate to make this a bigger reward be e-mailing your commitment letter to
ballroom@tampabay.rr.com

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Michael Cole
Ballroom Pythons South
863-439-3015
WWW.BallroomPythonsSouth.com

I can commit to $200. Can we get this story on the news, any news!

Kevin Winter

In the old days, you would hire a PR firm and have them send press releases to news agencies and hope for the best.
We have a much better and faster tool now, and you're on it. We need to use the internet and our interconnectivity to get the message out. But we have to branch out. Here on the Kingsnake forums we are often preaching to the choir when it comes to political issues such as this. I AM NOT KNOCKING THE FORUMS! What I'm saying is we need to speak to people who are not reading these forums.
Post on blogs, especially news blogs, and social networking sites. Provide links and be professional and courteous. Go directly to the news sites and start writing letters. If there is enough interest, they will start reporting on it.
Here's the thing about news: it's still about making money. Interest equals ratings, and ratings equal advertising revenue.
If everyone would just spend a couple of hours a few times a week we could make major progress.
I've been splattering my Facebook wall with updates for the past two days. I'm soon going to move on to some other sites.
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http://www.mikefoux.com
http://snakerack.blogspot.com

1.2.0 Hondurans Het Amel
1.1.0 Hondurans Anery, Het Hypo
0.1.0 Honduran Hypo
0.1.0 Honduran Hypo, Het Anery
0.2.0 Pueblans
1.0.0 Pueblan Hypo
0.1.0 Corn Bloodred
0.0.1 GBK Blair's Phase
1.0.0 California King
0.1.0 California King Blue-eyed Blond
0.0.1 Speckled King WC
1.1.0 Brooksi Hypo
0.0.1 Jungle Carpet
0.1.0 Ball, Normal
0.0.1 Sulcata
1.2.1 Leopard Geckos, various morphs
0.1.0 Wife, Caucasius Mexicana

EXCELLENT
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Proud supporter of USARK and Kingsnake.com
“We stand together or we fall apart”

Kyle
www.royalvariations.com

"be safe, be happy and dont let anyone make you afraid"
David Coverdale

Great folks...it's still coming in. We're up to 14950.00 in reward commitments.
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Michael Cole
Ballroom Pythons South
863-439-3015
WWW.BallroomPythonsSouth.com

We're up to 16950.00 in Monetary commitments to the Reward. Additional special thanks for monetary donationas again in no particular order to

National Reptile Breeding Expo Daytona
NARBC
BHB Enterprises
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Michael Cole
Ballroom Pythons South
863-439-3015
WWW.BallroomPythonsSouth.com

Yes I am happy to say that the number of commitments to this reward is now up to 18400.00
This is Great. I am sure this will get someones attention.
Special thanks for additional monetary commitments go out to in no particular order
Dan Wolfe Herpetological
Cold Blooded Addiction
Serpentine Exotics
BRB reptiles
Eric Dow
Jonathan Brady
Majickal Morphs
Jessica Gibbs
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Michael Cole
Ballroom Pythons South
863-439-3015
WWW.BallroomPythonsSouth.com