Animal Planet..

[zeion97]

I do want to put it out there that I think it's dumb dumb dumb to own a poisonous animal. I'd never own one, and I think it's dumb for other people to own them, i just don't see a point. But Do I want to stop you from owning one? NO!

I don't think it should be anyone's problem what type of animals I KEEP IF I KEEP THEM UNDER CONTROL and they're not harming anyone, and they are healthy an well cared for.

That is all.

I agree. I REALLY want a banded rock rattlesnake, but I now.my limits, and with children going to be in.my house, I'd just never want to chance it. The thing though, is.. I WILL NEVER say people.who keep hots and have all there bite protocols And escape protocols AND there set rules, I see no problem having them as "pets"

I think this is a good point. (Although snakes aren't poisonous, they're venomous.) You aren't going to find me with a venomous snake in my house, but as long as keeping any animal doesn't put anyone besides the owner at risk (that includes the animal itself; for example, I do happen to strongly disagree with big cats being kept as pets) I have no argument.

Again...I agree, I see big cats as one of the most deadly animals you can own. I mean, I get attacked EVERY day by my cats, I've only been bit once by my Burmese And I gad rat blood ob me. I just see those kind of exotics as... "to dangerous for me" but I would never go up to a big cat keeper who houses there animals.with as much love as we do our snakes And tell them "get rid of your cats" I believe we all have to the right to own animals as long as we take care of them correctly.

What the hell could be worse than an alligator in the everglades? Who F-ing cares if snakes move in. People need to chill out about that- catch the damn things and sell them back to us snake-lovers.
Snake lives, They make money, It's not in their precious everglades, and we get a new pet

WIN.WIN.WIN.WIN.

I think the Burmese pythons are DRASTICALLY over dramatized to what they really are. I will reply more to this in my next reply.. but personally I see no reason as to why we should suffer from laws from a few owners releasing there pets, and other escaping during hurricanes.
Side note... I think our "friends" at PETA are somewhat responsible for releases as well..

I agree with you, much of what they put on the channel is complete garbage. They always have the aspca animal rescue show on during the day but they rescue dogs/cats/farm animals 99% of the time. That means either A: Herp owners are really responsible so our animals dont need rescuing or B: Theyre biased towards non-herps or C: a combo of both.
Im pretty sure its a combo of both but I like to think its A.
On a side note I was thinking if the cold snap killed most of the burms in FL then does that mean that the ones that survived are going to continue breeding and produce a generation of burms more tolerant to the cold with the ability to survive at lower temps? Or were the burms that survived sorta just lucky?

The Burmese that survived were lucky. Most of then were in small caverns ungrounded that you could stand up in. For animals that are tropical And have to thermo regulate to survive be able to suddenly undergo a evolution that would take YEARS to happen.. no, I just can't see it. But I'm not a scientists. :p