Quote Originally Posted by Denial View Post
Brian im not sure where you got that I didnt think there was a problem in the everglades. Sure there are burmese pythons in the everglades im sure there are boas, reticulated pythons, anacondas, and many other exotics in there to. I however do not believe there are 100,000 of them in there. I do agree that florida has a problem but florida has also addressed the problem and is dealing with the problem. It needs to be state addressed not federal. I do thank jack for taking the time out of his schedule to do an interview with you but the damage is done with the interview he did with fox. Millions have seen that. Not everyone is going to here this interview. If he is behind the reptile hobby he needs to go public with his statements. Id love for him to go back with fox and do another interview if hes for the reptile hobby. I wasnt trying to argue or anything I just dont agree with jack.


Not trying to argue with you in anyway, but why would Jack go out of his way more then he already has. In no way did it benafit Jack to do this interview, he did it because he wanted to show his support for us. You can not put the cork back in the bottle and I know that Jack was not happy with the way the Fox interview turned out. You have to remember that news organizations do not just allow you to go back on to clear things up. They wanted it to sound the way it did, that's whay thay ambushed him without letting him know what they were going to ask. I have no doubt that if Jack does any further interviews on this topic the outcome will be a lot different. In the end I'm surprised that we as a community are always looking for someone to blame. We put ourselves into a bad position and we have not offered up any solutions that the politicians are willing to live with. I'm not saying I agree with Jacks position on taking animals back, but I can assure you that we need to increase our education to our cumstomers or we'll lose more and more of the hobby until we have nothing left. In the end I think it was awesome that a high profiled guy like Jack Hanna even cares what we think. I can assure you that most of the animal personalities do not. Ask yourself where they have been?? I'm friends with Nigel Marvin and he had a great platform to help us on the tonight show last week and not a peep. I'm not trying to blame him, just pointing out a fact that if it does not effect them they probably don't care. That's why I was blown away that Jack did care. Wether we agree or disagree with what he stated, we should be very thankful for his concern for our hobby. Thanks, Brian(BHB)