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Have you ever seen photos of people they capture with these exotic pets...more often than not in Florida? A picture is worth a thousand words.
Yes, I see "them" every day when I look into the mirror... and "they" look pretty darned normal to me! I also see them when I visit certain friends, or when I'm conversing with people on my snake forums - and yet again, they look just like anyone else you'd encounter in the streets. What was your point, exactly?
P.S. These exotic pets are legal in most states/cities, so people aren't generally being "captured" with them. Haha.
Snake keeping isn't bad (snakes are probably more appropriate to being kept in confinement as pets than most other animals)...humans just need to be responsible, like all pet owners. Spay and neuter your pets, and don't let them roam free outdoors - it's not just dangerous toward people and other animals, it's dangerous for them too!
Agreed!! Well, with everything except for spaying and neutering snakes... I don't even think that's possible, LOL.
My dog could probably do that, in fact he's already somewhat trained to find snakes and wayward feeder rodents... all I have to do is say "where's the snake/rat?" and he goes a-looking! He is actually more of a herding dog (as opposed to scent hound or hunter), but still knows how to use that nose.
Have you ever seen photos of people they capture with these exotic pets...more often than not in Florida? A picture is worth a thousand words.
I agree that really big snakes should fit the definition of an exotic and be illegal. Could, say, a 14 foot long snake live on rats alone? It's a sad thought to think if might be fed larger animals, like rabbits and dare I say anything else. They might eat such things in the wild, but it's not really a fair fight to drop them into an enclosed space with no escape route. It's practically animal cruelty, I think, which many of us accept at a certain level, but there is a cultural threshold there somewhere that needs to be enforced. For instance, if cats and dogs are routinely butchered and eaten in Asia, should we as a society allow that to happen here? No.
I don't have a problem with the confinement of snakes, and certainly think that a reasonable sized snake would make a fine pet. Other exotics, are more questionable. Elephants will kill humans in the wild if they feel like they've been disrespected. A tiger that would love to roam free or a gorilla that gets depressed during imprisonment are obvious instances of animals that should be protected from mistreatment.
The pythons might have a new food supply but the rat problem might have a fix. Gee, a nine pound rat would make a good .22 target for my failing eyesite. Easier to hit than the two pound variety.
FWIW - Sending a dog after a 20 ft constrictor snake is called feeding exotic wildlife not hunting.
Bugs are a little trickier but they can be eliminated too. Just modify their genes with mutations that will make them weaker and let them breed to circulate the bad genes. Just weakening the immune systems of cockroaches would put a large dent in their population. Unfortunately, the biggest hurdle to eliminating cockroaches are humans that are against genetically modifying anything.
Jesus christ.
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