Quote Originally Posted by wilomn View Post
Seriously? Really?

Yes. It is all pet owners who have turned their snakes loose in Florida that have caused all the hassles we experience now.

And you're correct, of course, about big snakes needing to be free. After all, a snake that size that sits and waits patiently by a waterhole or by the side of a trail, possibly for weeks while it waits for prey to come close enough to be food, that does not move from that spot, NEEDS to be free to roam.

Really? Seriously?

And why is it ok to keep ball pythons in tubs, some of them barely big enough for the snake to be able to turn about in, or any other snake kept in a small enclosure, but not the giants? Prejudiced are we? Biased a tad?

Have you ever kept a big snake? Got any personal experience with them? Real experience, not seeing one somewhere sometimes, but actual day to day hands on experience?

I ask only to determine where your ....ignorance/error/lack of facts, originated. Maybe you're a well meaning but under or un or maybe even mis-informed keeper. Maybe not. But knowing would make future answers easier to frame in a manner most conducive to your successful assimilation.

easy there bud.. i wasnt stating facts but merely try to say that you should know what your doing when dealing with a snake that size... i dont like any animal being locked up.. but something thats 8' long.. well.. wouldn't you want to stretch now and then and where did i say they can stretch? oh yah..the zoo, yah the zoo..not your living room?!.. and i wasn't comparing a lion to a snake.. in their respected categories they reign.. when i'm on the internet and i see a snake and its eaten a crocodile, i think, wow.. something i wouldn't want to come across.. but you can act all tough there Wilomn and hate on me because your a big man thats handled big snakes.. i paid my respects to the 'big' snake breeders out there and all i have is respect for them.. but this a forum where its free to speak.. and IMO Wilomn, no i dont think any bob, dan or harry should be allowed own a snake that big..