To avoid 'giant python in Everglades,' lawmaker working to ban ...

It reads like the plot to a budget horror flick: Pythons fill up the Everglades and spread across the southern third of the United States.

[Preston Brooks]

They should allow people to hunt these things. Let's get 'em under control now while we have a chance.

No need to pass complicated laws. Just open a season and pay a bounty for every dead Burmese Python that's brought back to the ranger station.

No fuss, no muss

[Ted Tague]

I agree; let's get a bounty on pythons.

[Cheryl Filbeck]

Why don't they kill a few alligators while they are at it. They have way too many in Everglades also.

[I am me-deal with it]

I really do not understand why people just turn them loose. My husband had one and when he just got to big to deal with he gave him to a zoo. They gladly took him in.

[Recordo]

The Pythons have no natural enemy in the Everglades. It's Python Heaven as far as they are concerned. And the same small-brained honchos who buy pit bulls and tie red bandannas on them go to fairs and buy pythons.

The pythons grow fast and eat hearty, but since Joe Six-Pack gave his snakey-poo a name, he can't kill it, so he let's it loose on Alligator Alley.

There will be legislation. You can't stop this junk from coming in any more than you can stop Mexicans. But you can put a bounty on them. And you should. They eat everything from alligators to Key Deer.

[I know]

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[Recordo]

I am me-deal with it wrote:

I really do not understand why people just turn them loose. My husband had one and when he just got to big to deal with he gave him to a zoo. They gladly took him in.

When most people are finished with something they just want it out of their sight. That satisfies their need to close the circle. It's why Santaria freaks dump animal parts in vacant lots, why people leave old refrigerators on the sidewalk, why there are divorce laws.

[Jose]

The pythons arent a threat to native gators,etc .

Open your eyes. The bulldozer and cement mixers are the real threat to S.Floridas native fauna.

Pythons will eat a few gators but many gators eat pythons.

However with developments growing the way they are around the Glades even the Everglades panther will have to buy a unit in a gated community if it wants to stay in S.Florida.

Once wild lands are gone thats it they are gone. Ask senator Nelson to save wild lands . Lets see how eager he is to do that.

[Jose]

Recordo wrote:

The Pythons have no natural enemy in the Everglades. It's Python Heaven as far as they are concerned. And the same small-brained honchos who buy pit bulls and tie red bandannas on them go to fairs and buy pythons.
The pythons grow fast and eat hearty, but since Joe Six-Pack gave his snakey-poo a name, he can't kill it, so he let's it loose on Alligator Alley.
There will be legislation. You can't stop this junk from coming in any more than you can stop Mexicans. But you can put a bounty on them. And you should. They eat everything from alligators to Key Deer.

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lol your kidding right ? You think those monster Glade gators dont eat pythons.Do a bit of research on the net. You will see pics .

Gators dont eat bulldozers and that is the real threat to the Glades and all of S.Floridas wild life.

[Recordo]

There aren't enough gators to eat or even control the python population. They lay 30-35 eggs a year only some of which are found and eaten by foxes, rats, owls and gators. But as adults they have NO major competitors. They are nocturnal: Ospreys hunt in daylight. They live in the water: hunting mammals like dry land better; and they grow FAST.

And I agree with you about bulldozers and cane growers, another good reason to make peace with Cuba. Let them grow cane and refine sugar. There's oil under the Everglades, wait till the derricks start to pop up along the Trail. The developers won't be happy until there's concrete from Kendall to Fort Myers. You ought to see it from the air.

[Jose]

There aren't enough gators to eat or even control the python population. They lay 30-35 eggs a year only some of which are found and eaten by foxes, rats, owls and gators. But as adults they have NO major competitors. They are nocturnal: Ospreys hunt in daylight. They live in the water: hunting mammals like dry land better; and they grow FAST.

And I agree with you about bulldozers and cane growers, another good reason to make peace with Cuba. Let them grow cane and refine sugar. There's oil under the Everglades, wait till the derricks start to pop up along the Trail. The developers won't be happy until there's concrete from Kendall to Fort Myers. You ought to see it from the air.
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Okay had no idea they laid that many eggs .

I go there now and than and see a growing "sea" of cement.

I have never seen a python there which certainly doesnt mean there arent countless but I do see more and more green natural wild lands being turned in to fields of death aka developments.

I dont mind the sugar fields or farming because its still soil and semi wild lands . Its the developments which equal death . Once cement is poured no going back.

I would live to see ANY politician here in Florida actually try to keep wild lands for nature.

In Miami no such politician, no such concept.

Like the saying goes "Cuban tree frogs didnt kill the green tree frogs , It was lack of green,nature which killed them"