Check this out! must see!!

Well everyone has seen on TV and the internet about giant pythons showing up in south Florida. I live here and about 10min from the everglades. I have never seen one in the wild until this one showed up last Friday night in a neighbors yard about 2 blocks away from me. My friend was next door when the lady showed up and asked for help that there was a big snake in her drive way. She said she call animal control and they told her there was nothing they could or would do since it was not in her house. He cought it and walked it over to me knowing I keep snakes. So I open the door to him holding this thing laughing his head off. She 's a lot bigger than these pic's make her look. Plus this girl is as mean as they come! I have the everglades out post going to take her!


http://members.dsli.com/philthy/pyth...Image00002.jpg

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That is awesome!

Great find!...........LOL

:O Nice catch!

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I have the everglades out post going to take her!

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?? Is this a rescue for wild-caught Florida burms?

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Originally Posted by JLC

:O Nice catch!




?? Is this a rescue for wild-caught Florida burms?

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That is a rescue for all kinds of exotic pets, they have burms, retics, cobras, vipers, adders, tigers, bears. They take just about anything you don't want I think.

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Originally Posted by Dougie

That is a rescue for all kinds of exotic pets, they have burms, retics, cobras, vipers, adders, tigers, bears. They take just about anything you don't want I think.

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Sounds like a great place. I'd love to work in a place like that someday.

Woah........ That's crazy! A friend was telling me that there is a Retic, Burm, and Nile Monitor issue there. I didn't BELIEVE him! LOL!:O

Yeah I have seen many monitors and my neighbor hood is over run with Tokay Geckos. But I have never seen a big snake show up before. We live in West Homestead which is a farming community so most neighbor hoods are bordered by crops or woods.

Wow! Oddly enough, this really makes me want to go herping if I ever get around to visiting Florida, lol.

are you allowed to keep em if you find em?

My friend has a reptile farm in central Florida and always drives to Miami for international shipments. He has told me that lots of non-native reptiles live in the glades. I think there are three main reasons, it is a good habitat for alot of animals, the glades are very close to a huge international import location, and three people let pets go in the wild, what better place than in the glades. Problem is, they tend to prey on native species.

Be sure to report it to people, i have talked to three people from FL who are doing studies on invasives (burms in particular), and any info they get on location is alot of help to them. You prob don't have to tell them that you have him, unless you want to, but i think it would be important for their study and controling invasive species if you call somebody to let them know.


Nice lookin animal though!

~mike

nice hook ;)

cant imagine finding one of those in my driveway!

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Wow! Oddly enough, this really makes me want to go herping if I ever get around to visiting Florida, lol.

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Right!?!? lol I've been on the flat bottom boat tour to see the Alligators... And we LOOKED for.... my mind went blank.... Manaties!?? But did't see any...:(

Very nice find!

And while the problem is greatest in the everglades, it's a problem all over florida. I'm an hour north of tampa, and people are always finding pythons, boas, and other non-native species on roads, in their yard, and in parks. Last I heard, the FWC made it legal to remove any non-native species from public roads/property. Only downside, is that they're making it, if they haven't already, a felony to release a non-native species...this is a downside because if you find a wild burm and pick it up, it's yours. No putting an animal back down to be on it's way.

It's great she'll find a home at the Everglades Outpost

http://www.evergladesoutpost.org/

If you live near them, their website is asking for volunteers by the way. If my memory is correct I think I've seen them featured on an Animal Planet show (may have been working with that show Animal Cops doing the exotics but not sure).

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Right!?!? lol I've been on the flat bottom boat tour to see the Alligators... And we LOOKED for.... my mind went blank.... Manaties!?? But did't see any...:(

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Manatees! Basically a big sea cow, with a tail. ;) But since it was mentioned, I thought I'd point out there one right by me now (Memphis). We have a Manatee that made it's way up the Mississippi River, and is confounding the local authorities. Kinda cool, but dang that water has got to be cold!! :O

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/n...ismanatee.html

I was just watching that on the news today...what a shock for all of those guys hu? I love when it gets cool here because we go down to the Manatee Park over here and watch them swim and eat with there young in the warm water the power plant lets off.

That is cool. I don't have to worry about any non-native pets in AZ. Anything let go would probably dehidrate or burn to death! I rarely see snakes in the wild. You are so lucky IMO!!

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It's great she'll find a home at the Everglades Outpost

http://www.evergladesoutpost.org/

If you live near them, their website is asking for volunteers by the way. If my memory is correct I think I've seen them featured on an Animal Planet show (may have been working with that show Animal Cops doing the exotics but not sure).

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She is there now and does have a nice new enclosure! I have some pic's and will post them up here in the next day or 2. I also have some great pics of animals from around my yard like, blind snakes and tokay gecko's I'll post up as well.

Just an update on the manatee here in Tennessee. When they got ready to catch it, they couldnt find it, so who knows where it is now. I havent heard anything in a few days though.

Wow; most escapee herps in this area would be ice-cubes before November was over, lol. It is sad that morons will let their animals go like that though.. I feel bad for all of the native wildlife that has to compete.

I sort of assumed that with our frigid winters and our 6 1/2 native reptile species (the Leatherback turtle is the 1/2 as it visits UK waters) most introduced herps would soon perish but it looks like a few lizards, some of the hardier terrapins and even a snake species have apparently succeded in colonising the UK.

No burms though!
http://www.herpetofauna.co.uk/identi...tm#naturalised