Jack Hanna Phone Interview

[BHB]

Did you ask him about this?
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I still do not agree with him. Once again he brought up the southern states as "warm states" including south carolina. I could take all of my burmese pythons outside in greenville south carolina right now and release them all. Not one of them would survive and I would expect someone that has one of the largest zoos in america and works with these animals on a daily basis to know that. I like to keep my house in the 60-70 degree range because I like cold weather so my herps are not even safe in my home in south carolina. They all have heat tape or radiant heat panels or heat lights and they also have a heater that heats there room to 80-85 degress at all times. I dont think the agreement papers would work. I just dont see that as something that would work but its a start and anything to get congress off our backs. I liked jack alot when I was growing up but It just blows my mind when people think exotics can survive in south carolina and georgia. We do get pretty hot in the summer but we also freeze in the winter.

Yeah, that's what this interview was about??? You have to remember that from his point he sees a problem, he's not an expert, he just knows there is a problem. If you think there is no problem then I think you are looking at things from a bias stand point. There are feral Burmese in the Everglades, can they live elsewhere?? Nobody can really say for sure. I hope not for our sake, but the point is that is what has got us here. Jack does not understand our hobby anymore then we understand how to run a zoo. He is concerned for the animals and our hobby. He supports our hobby as stated in this interview. For anyone that has done an interview you'd know that sometimes things sound different then what you want them too. He was asked to go on Fox for an interview about the everglades and they hit him with those questions. He was unprepared and unaware of the ambush style reporting. If you want to keep going back to that instead of appreciating him taking time our of his busy schedule to let us reptile people know that he is behind us, then I guess you can choose to so that. I for one will take any and all support and from a big name like Jack Hanna it can only help our fight. Thanks, Brian(BHB)