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MORGANTON NEWS HERALD (Morganton, N Carolina) 19 June 05 Man Shoots Tropical Snake In Chicken Coop (Alex Cabe)
Photo at URL: Joe Baynard holds a 4-foot snake he shot near his chicken coop Saturday Morning. The snake did not look like any native species.(Alex Cabe)
Morganton: A Morganton man was shocked to see a 4-foot exotic snake invading his chicken coop Saturday morning.
After racing into his house for a gun, Joe Baynard shot the snake from about eight feet away with a .357-caliber pistol. He hit it in the neck and killed it.
"It was like nothing I've ever seen," said Baynard. "Nothing like that is native to this area."
Baynard didn't know what kind of snake he shot.? It had markings similar to a ball python. The ball python, which can grow up to six feet long, is a West African snake; commonly kept as a pet.
Baynard thought the snake he shot was an escaped or released pet.
The snake didn't attack Baynard's animals.
"It may have got eggs," he said, "but it didn't hurt the chickens."
http://www.morganton.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=MNH/MGArticle/MNH_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783370369&path=!news

I don't know if many of you know anything about Morganton NC, but if they see an animal that does not Moo, Bark, Meow, Oink, Nay, or Cluck they consider it Exotic... This can be further seen by the fact that it was a "Tropical" snake IE one that is normally not found in the barn or that Billy Bob had not seen in his trip to the "big city". Ugh!
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Bryan, Atlanta GA

1-0-0 Ball Python - Apep
1-1-0 Rats... no wait... ROTTEN Little Cats - Ra, Bastet
0-1-0 Little Angelic Kitten - Isis
1-0-0 Horse... whoops... BIG Golden Retriever - Jake
0-1-0 Wife
2-0-0 Kids

An exotic animal is an animal that is not native to the area. i.e. ball python.

Sucks it got shot but I would expect nothing less from a farmer who thinks his entire stock will be killed by predator. Sad but true...

np
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Joe Lydon
Got Boids?

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Tosha

"Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed." Don Wood

"Of course, that's only my opinion...and I believe I am God." =) Chris Bianco

7.33.0 Ball Python (Harry and Fluffy and gang)
1.0.0 Angolan Python (Skywalker)
0.0.1 Green Tree Python
0.2.0 Feline (Pippen and Pandora)
0.0.1 Dessert Tortoise (Pope John Paul)
2.2.1 Fish (1,2,3,4)
0.0.0 Pool skimmer rescues for this season

Not that it matters but I just think of what I could have done with that big ole female. I just have to wonder.
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1.0 Pied(04)(RDR)
1.0 Butterscotch Ghost(04)
1.0 Albino(04)(RDR)
0.1 Spider(04)(RDR)
4.2 Pastels(03's)(04's)(ASF,Graziani,Bell lines)
2.8 Orange Granites(05)
1.0 Yellow Belly(04)(Ian G)
2.0 Yellow Belly(05)(unproven)
1.3 Yellow belly(unproven)(02,03,04's)
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3.3 100% het albinos(03's)(high contrast bell line)
0.1 poss Het Albino(03's)
2.0 100% het pieds(03's)(Vin Russo,CRE)
0.2 100% het pieds(03's)(04's)(RDR,TWL)
1.2 Poss het pieds(03's)(PETE KAHL)
2.1 Poss het pieds(00's)(01's) hoping to get PIEDS this year(Vin Russo, Pete Kahl)
25 Normal adult females
60 04 females
15 normal mixed 03's
20 Assorted weird ball pythons 04's
13 baby 2005 PASTELS just HATCHED...4-8-05 and 5-10-05 (SOLD)

imagine the look on his face if one of us were there to have sexed the thing...only to tell him what she(?)was actually worth.... (god forbid it was a cinny or a yb,rofl)
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Charles Glaspie

>>MORGANTON NEWS HERALD (Morganton, N Carolina) 19 June 05 Man Shoots Tropical Snake In Chicken Coop (Alex Cabe)
>>Photo at URL: Joe Baynard holds a 4-foot snake he shot near his chicken coop Saturday Morning. The snake did not look like any native species.(Alex Cabe)
>>Morganton: A Morganton man was shocked to see a 4-foot exotic snake invading his chicken coop Saturday morning.
>>After racing into his house for a gun, Joe Baynard shot the snake from about eight feet away with a .357-caliber pistol. He hit it in the neck and killed it.
>>"It was like nothing I've ever seen," said Baynard. "Nothing like that is native to this area."
>>Baynard didn't know what kind of snake he shot.? It had markings similar to a ball python. The ball python, which can grow up to six feet long, is a West African snake; commonly kept as a pet.
>>Baynard thought the snake he shot was an escaped or released pet.
>>The snake didn't attack Baynard's animals.
>>"It may have got eggs," he said, "but it didn't hurt the chickens."
>> http://www.morganton.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=MNH/MGArticle/MNH_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783370369&path=!news
>>
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