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Posted on 8/3/15 at 10:11 am to Masterag
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frick snakes. Every last one of them.
This X1000. Especially the imports.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 10:47 am to Masterag
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frick snakes. Every last one of them.
No, snakes play a vital role in in maintaining a balanced ecosystem. Most snakes actually keep pests in check and are really no danger to humans. There were several of my parents friends who were either widows or divorcees and they'd pay me $50 to "kill" the black snakes and king snakes on their property. I'd just catch them and release them at my folks' place. Easy money.
The foreign and invasive species that have released into the wild are a nuisance, though, and steps should be taken to eradicate them, or at least severely limit their population. Anacondas and shite freak me the frick out. they found an 8 foot python in one of the neighborhoods in Columbia several years ago. frick that shite.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 12:35 pm to crispyUGA
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No, snakes play a vital role in in maintaining a balanced ecosystem. Most snakes actually keep pests in check and are really no danger to humans.
This is true. Even rattlesnakes feed on rodents. I don't understand the irrational fear some people have for snakes. They don't actually entice naked women to eat forbidden fruit.
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Posted on 8/3/15 at 12:40 pm to Kentucker
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Because Florida now has thousands of them.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 12:43 pm to Kentucker
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I don't understand the irrational fear some people have for snakes.
This. I've never had a problem with snakes except always being wary of a rattlesnake/copperhead while in the woods. We had a black snake that took up residence in our shed and my dad wouldn't let us mess with it because it ate the rodents and kept the poisonous snakes away. It was crazy how comfortable that snake was with us.
These pythons aren't scary, but they will frick up ecosystems.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 12:46 pm to Robert Goulet
Last week, I found a huge snake skin in my basement. No snakes please
Posted on 8/3/15 at 12:52 pm to Robert Goulet
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and kept the poisonous snakes away.
I wish more people knew this. If you've got big black snakes on your property, you're not going to have rattlesnakes, copperheads or just about any other snake, poisonous or not. They're extremely territorial.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 1:55 pm to Kentucker
A black king snake yea those are great to have... until your kid confuses it with a cottonmouth.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 1:58 pm to slacker130
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This weekend in Georgia there was a sighting of an African Gaboon viper. New Story
They should've killed that fricker.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 2:03 pm to WhitewaterDawg
Because they're a nuisance and need to be eradicated. Zoos have more than they can handle, they're usually the first place called when "responsible" people try and get rid of one opposed to releasing it into the wild.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 2:14 pm to slacker130
Gaboon Viper? Those things are awesome. Luckily they're a lot more docile than our venomous snakes so it's doubtful someone will get bitten.
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Posted on 8/3/15 at 2:17 pm to Pavoloco83
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Why do they capture these things? Why dont they kill them on site? These are a foreign nuisance animal. Should have massive hunts for the motherfrickers.
They do. They rarely catch more than a hundred in a month. They are essentially invisible. They are deadly killers, and small mammal populations in the everglades have been decimated in the past decade.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 2:19 pm to crispyUGA
Yeah, I have no idea why people are so afraid of snakes. Unless you're prodding at them or actually step on one, the odds of getting bitten are so so low. They go out of their way to avoid you. WIthout them, rodents and other things we consider pests would be everywhere. I mean you're 8 times more likely to die in a car crash opposed to being envenomated by a snake.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 2:24 pm to AUbagman
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Yeah, I have no idea why people are so afraid of snakes. Unless you're prodding at them or actually step on one, the odds of getting bitten are so so low. They go out of their way to avoid you. WIthout them, rodents and other things we consider pests would be everywhere. I mean you're 8 times more likely to die in a car crash opposed to being envenomated by a snake.
I agree except in the case of the invasives, they need to be eradicated. As for home grown poisonous snakes I say live and let live unless they are hanging out in my backyard then they gotta go, if they let me run them into something that I can carry them safely in then I'll relocate them, if they don't cooperate they die.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 2:32 pm to Agforlife
No doubt, invasives need to be killed on site. I understand not wanting venomous snakes around, especially if you have children, I was speaking more in terms of those that kill any snake they see.
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