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How bad did this turn out? I didn't get to watch it because we do not have this channel. I am willing to bet cash they butchered the species profile, but how bad is the damage really?
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Lincoln, NE
0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly
2.0 Normals, 1.0 Thayeri, 0.1 Thayeri X Alterna, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband

I BELIEVE IT WAS BY FAR THE MOST NEGATIVE SHOW I'VE SEEN THUS FAR. ADDITIONALLY IT WAS FILLED WITH RIDICULOUS SPECULATION AND OUTRIGHT FALSE INFORMATION. You might say I didn't like it...LOL
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Tom Crutchfield
www.tomcrutchfield.com

Ithought it started off pretty good actually. I kinda tried to watch from a novice, non-snake person’s perspective and they had some very good infomation initially. Watching the park rangers work as they were tracking the snakes via transmitters was interesting to watch, as were the other snake trackers & hunters. I was very surprised they actually showed biologists running experiments where they exposed young Burms to various amounts of clean, brackish, and salt water and they showed that the snakes exposed to higher salt levels in their water died. I didn’t think they would show them actually killing a snake for scientific purposes but they did? Not that I am happy to see a snake die, but it is good to show people the reality of things.

What I did not like was the way they sensationalized things to scare the folks watching. They would portray the Burms as potentially spreading across Florida and the lower third of the US and into populated areas and they have to have a picture of a big snake crawling towards a house at night with the people inside. This was done only to scare people watching and was pathetic. I also didn’t appreciate that the didn’t take time to interview someone respectable in the trade like a Brian B. or Tom Crutchfield and show how a responsible operation is ran. They also didnt bother to interview any responsible snake owners. Instead they showed some goober who kept his 15’ Burm in a way too small wooden cage with a plexiglass front that was glued(yes glued)on with silicone!! What the Freak! Any ideas what happened next? You guessed it, the snake got out and almost killed his daughter…???

Yes, it is important to watch what propaganda the American public is taking in. It is also funnny, interesting and very nerve-wracking to watch at the same time. All in all the show was pretty much a snake hack job.

I cannot believe what I saw and heard last night!

The show is titled Python Wars!

Nat Geo Explorer telling everyone that there ARE tens of thousands of Burms breeding in the Glades and Keys. They are producing thousands of baby pythons and will breed with the African Rock pythons and create a giant aggressive supersnake morph that will spread to the whole U.S. due to global warming! They stated that the burms will destroy all the native wildlife and they have no natural predators. They used the USGS info and other questionable sources. They made it seem like BURMAGEDDON!

Of course, by the time Burmageddon hits, people in Minnesota will be dieing from Malaria so its all relative....

Hey, if it gets that bad, where I live in Western NC will be beach front property...will our snakes be a problem if half the east coast washes away?

I didn't watch it, so can't comment on that, but most of their shows are totally full of it. Such as all the stuff about life after people. The 3 minutes I watched told of 4 days (or a week, something stupid) after people are gone, the greyhounds would escape from the dog track. So, the metal cages will rot so fast after people are gone, the dogs will just walk out? If they can't get out now, they're not going to figure it out while they're starving to death. Then it jumped to animals dying after man made lakes dryed up, that's when I changed the channel. Reality, if you were to see a Rock python, you could simply walk away, it's not going to chase you down. On the flip side, if you walk up on a stray and aggressive dog, good luck! I did notice on the history channel show it said "SCIENTIST" fear pythons and cobras breeding. Sound like top quality scientist right there. I'm guessing this happens right after all the feral cats and dogs start producing Dats or Cogs whatever you'd call them.