U.S. set to approve python ban

[Kinra]

IF this is approved then it wouldn't take effect immediately they would set a date for it to take effect in the future.

That is true, but as an owner of the banned species I don't like it. I will be forced to choose between my pets or breaking the law if I ever want to move to a different state.

What does this mean for people who already own these species? Will they be forced to get rid of them, or potentially be persecuted?

It basically means you can't legally move with them out of state. This bill only bans the interstate transport of them.

Alot of people blame pet owners that let their snakes go when they got to big for the snakes in the everglades but there is a lot of research out that that doesn't support this. For one snakes that have been raised in captivity and only know how to eat what is dropped into their container and has grown that big wouldn't be able to survive in the wild for very long. Granite they would survive for a while but not long enough to start a population. They wouldn't be able to hunt as well to stay alive they are too used to be handed food. Now im not saying that some wouldnt survive but not enough to reproduce and to the number we have today.

While I don't believe the problem is from released pets, I don't entirely believe this argument. Snakes are more primitive than dogs or cats and they do just fine when dumped by their owners. I think released snakes would be able to feed themselves. They don't lose those instincts no matter how long we have been keeping them as pets and that is part of why some people don't understand why we keep them.