Quote Originally Posted by snake lab View Post
Ohlacey. Your not steppin on toes. Oppinions, views, stances, debates, its all what the forum is. Im not attacking. Just pointin out some things. The facts about the glades pythons have been so twisted by the media. And the facts are that pet owners ate not the ones that released the amount of pythons it would take to create a problem. Was there a number of pythons in the glades? Sure there was. Was it because of owner release? No way. It was a direct result of hurricane andrew and the destruction of zoo miami and other breeding facilities. Did the pythons snack on wildlife? Sure they did. They had to eat. But they did not endanger any species in the glades. They simply competed against the gators food source. Now the most important fact. The winter of 2010 not only killed of the majority of the puthons but it also killed off alot indiginous animals as well. A fact that supporters of the python ban ignore still now.
I didn't know it went so far back... I know we've had a couple odd population booms since Andrew ripped up Africa USA. In fact, my house is built next to a whole bunch of baobabs and we've seen more than a few monkeys that date back. (though most of those guys have moved south now)

And I know pythons definitely didn't contribute to the endangerment of key deer. The species has had a hard time sustaining for a long enough time period for anyone to look at the situation in a different light. (I can't cite you on that one, though)

I was definitely under the wrong impression if being released wasn't such a contributing factor in their population rise, though. I suppose I ought to check some more statistics on my own state before relying on just my own experience... Half of what you see, none of what you hear, right?