everybody better wake up & know about the ban!!

[Kaorte]

I know a lot of the pro-life activists are flooding pres. Obama with empty red envelopes (to represent aborted children). They are sending something like 6 million of them.

Maybe we could do something similar. Make up a statement and send it a few million times. If we each do a few thousand it is sure to make a difference, especially if it is in one persons mail box

[nevohraalnavnoj]

Everyone can help by joining www.pijac.org and www.usark.org

Both of these organizations are fighting on behalf of our hobby, and we should support them with our dues. Not to mention, more members means more bargaining power.

Also, Eugene Bessette had an excellent reptile radio quickblast this week on this very legislation, be sure and check it out if you have not
www.blogtalkradio.com/reptileradio

And to re-iterate another post: If the bill banning interstate transport of pythons passes, it will end the reptile industry as we know it.

This bill is intended to stem the problem with Burmese pythons in Florida, or at least that is the wave of support that Senator Bill Nelson is trying to ride (Senate bill S373). Ironically, it has absolutely no provisions to help Floridans with the Burm problem, and is instead a statement that you should not have the personal right to own pythons.

Email your Senators / Congressmen to oppose this bill.

JonV

[JeffJ]

I know a lot of the pro-life activists are flooding pres. Obama with empty red envelopes (to represent aborted children). They are sending something like 6 million of them.

Maybe we could do something similar. Make up a statement and send it a few million times. If we each do a few thousand it is sure to make a difference, especially if it is in one persons mail box

its ironic that Pro-Life activists are killing trees with all the useless empty envelopes being made for there use. "dont abort a baby, but you can hack down them trees so we can send empty envelopes to people and hope they change there mind" there should be better ways to get a point across then all the useless paper waste.

[nevohraalnavnoj]

Also, you can help Pijac by filling out this online survey

http://www.pijac.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=505


This will allow them to better demonstrate the tremendous financial impact of Congress passing the bill.

JonV

[Lucas339]

This bill is intended to stem the problem with Burmese pythons in Florida, or at least that is the wave of support that Senator Bill Nelson is trying to ride (Senate bill S373). Ironically, it has absolutely no provisions to help Floridans with the Burm problem, and is instead a statement that you should not have the personal right to own pythons.

JonV

you nailed it!! every email i send senator nelson i point this out to him!!

[mricyfire]

And we don't endorse illegal activity here at BP.net - so you could only buy ball pythons from breeders in your state - if they stay in business. Nor do we allow members to advocate illegal activity. Please be mindful of our TOS.

Didn't mean to break the rules my bad...

Wow what a great attitude, your a credit to your hobby.

curious is this sarcasm?? I continue a few posts later to refute my comment. As mentioned before I love the hobby, but for MY personal reasons this wont affect me as much hence my post

[nevohraalnavnoj]

curious is this sarcasm?? I continue a few posts later to refute my comment. As mentioned before I love the hobby, but for MY personal reasons this wont affect me as much hence my post

It WILL affect you when you try and buy reptile supplies and there aren't any/many suppliers. This affects ALL of us. Every pet owner should oppose this bill.

JonV

[Chris Rossi]

I was planning on sending this to the senator:

Dear Mr. Nelson,

My name is Christopher Rossi I’m 14 and I am a resident of Florida. The letter I am writing you is regarding the law you want to pass, S. 373. I agree there are many large pythons (i.e. Reticulated and Burmese) in the Everglades that pose a threat to our already threatened animals. But I don’t think that banning the sale of pythons in our home state will stop the spread. One of the main ways the large pythons were released was by Hurricane Andrew which damaged many zoos and pet stores which had these snakes either as hatchlings or adults. Yes also there were many people who bought these large snakes as cute little babies and then are surprised when they see how big the get. Which then, some of the people release them into the wild thinking no harm can come of it. Instead of doing the proper thing and taking them to a exotic reptile sanctuary. I think one way that could help is to properly educate the people that are selling these animals, so that that make there customers aware of how big they will get. And with the pythons that are already in the Everglades. I think there should be python hunts. Where people will have to pay to take a test and those with the highest results will be able to get a special permit that will allow them to go into the park and extract hatchling and adult pythons. After which these snakes should be humanly euthanized or sent to zoos.

Passing this law will also affect the reptile community. Ball Pythons (Python regius) are one of the most widely bought and sold snake species. These snakes do not get much bigger than 5 feet. Which is no bigger than most of our native snake species. Banning these snakes from our state can cause an impact to our already severely suffering economy. You may not think of it but there are quite a lot of people that make their living on selling reptiles, some who only sell snakes. You might also say how can banning pythons from one state make that big of an impact? Well there are a quite a few very well known (to the reptile community) snake breeders in Florida not to mention those that are small like me. Also every year in Daytona is the National Breeders Expo, which is one of the largest reptile shows in the world. Banning Pythons would also affect this to a great degree. I went there last year, I was amazed by all of the beautiful animals I saw. There were so many colors and patterns it was just amazing. Just about half of those animals if not more were snakes. I hope I have helped you to understand why this law will affect more than just the ecosystem. It will affect the people like me that love and will gladly take the responsibility to care for these wonderful animals.


Thell me what you guys think?