Close the loophole on exotic snakes

[Bluebonnet Herp]

http://www.tallahassee.com/article/2...-exotic-snakes

I sometimes wonder if people have any idea what they are actually talking about...

[bcr229]

I don't care what the subject matter, when I read "Close the Loophole" in an article the author usually means "OMG WITHOUT MORE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION PREPARE FOR ARMAGEDDON OR ELSE WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[OctagonGecko729]

I don't care what the subject matter, when I read "Close the Loophole" in an article the author usually means "OMG WITHOUT MORE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION PREPARE FOR ARMAGEDDON OR ELSE WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Yeah its just another way of saying, lets criminalize something that is otherwise completely peaceful.

[gsarchie]

Look deeper here people - the author is the president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund - the very fund that pays for the HSUS' fights to ban snakes! Big picture - I doubt but a hundred people have read this article and 4 of the 5 comments point out that the author is an idiot. There is no point to the article and it is painfully clear that the intent is to spread fear. By doing so he is trying to ensure that down the road when a reader of the article that otherwise knows nothing about snakes hears about a ban they will support it. The point here was to plant the seed!

I do find it ironic that the guy that helps the HSUS fund their work to ban pets is holding a cat in his author photo. He mentions that snakes in Cozumel and Aruba eat 17,000 birds annually but apparently ignores the fact that billions of birds, reptiles and small mammals are eaten across the U.S. every year.