Deputies find 12-foot Anaconda in Kissimmee

http://www.abc-7.com/Global/story.asp?S=11821692

Nice find, I don't see why they messed with it, it was doing perfectly fine, and wasn't really hurting anybody.

nice snake

Im actually glad they "messed with it". In my opinion they saved it and did the reptile community a favor. It was taken to a serpentarium instead of killed. If someone had called it in they might have just killed it. And now thats one less snake in the wild that would hurt us. Its puts a smile on my face to know they didn't kill it. It might have been a little slow though due to the temperatures. :D

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Originally Posted by redstormlax12

Im actually glad they "messed with it". In my opinion they saved it and did the reptile community a favor. It was taken to a serpentarium instead of killed. If someone had called it in they might have just killed it. And now thats one less snake in the wild that would hurt us. Its puts a smile on my face to know they didn't kill it. It might have been a little slow though due to the temperatures. :D

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True, I didn't think about that. I'm glad atleast it's living still, like you said.

I'm glad they removed it, it doesn't belong there.

It was probably the best thing for both the snake and the area it was inhabiting.

"The mounted patrol was practicing walking their horses over storm grates when they noticed the dormant snake Wednesday."

I wonder what is meant by dormant. I would guess it was probably half frozen vs dormant. I wonder how it's health will be in the next week.

We've had 27-32 degree mornings here in the last 2 weeks, so I'm sure it's better off in the Serpentarium in St. Cloud. It's about 45 minutes from here, I might even go over and see it.


Brian
0.1 Normal Ball Python (Bella)

Looks like a good situation. The people holding it don't look scared and they are holding it properly, not hurting the animal or themselves. Very rare to find such understanding authorities in this situation. Like it was said, normally this snake would have been killed on the spot.

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Originally Posted by norm

Looks like a good situation. The people holding it don't look scared and they are holding it properly, not hurting the animal or themselves. Very rare to find such understanding authorities in this situation. Like it was said, normally this snake would have been killed on the spot.

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That was one of the things I noticed, too. Nobody that was holding it, had a total "death grip" on the snake at all. :gj: Very good looking snake. I hope it recovers from the cold..

Fuel for the fire..

This has been posted before I thought.

I, too, noticed the way they were holding the snake. And the snake didn't seem bothered at all (he wasn't coiled tightly around their arms), though that could be from the cold.

There were two other happy surprises in the article:
A- They correctly identified the snake rather than calling it a Boa or Python
B- They called it "non-venomous" rather than saying they are "not poisonous"

All around good article, I think. :gj:

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Originally Posted by Neal

Nice find, I don't see why they messed with it, it was doing perfectly fine, and wasn't really hurting anybody.

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Your joking right?

We need these animals rounded up and removed or killed. We do not need them breeding!

Notice the dress of the men. My guess is our anaconda friend was extremely uncomfortable and roaming for someplace warmer! We need more cold weather in florida!


I am also certain that someone let this animal go. This is not the everglades and this snake did not make it up from the everglades.

http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8...0&iwloc=A&sa=X

You know when plants are "dormant" it is the best time to plant them, right?