Green Anaconda Trying to eat a dog (vid)

[Mendel's Balls]

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if the new LA bill gets passed....in order to own any constrictor (like even a rosy boa), I am going to have to let the government in my home to inspect everything and purchase a permit for each animal....every year....and it is pictures of man eating snakes and talk of how they kill people and their animals that are driving this bill...

Legislators like this because its also a great way for the government to get extra revenue from the permit fees.....in fact that probably the real reason why so many of them are for it! And it easy to enact on a population that loves their dogs, and knows nothing about reptiles....

There can be little doubt that the number of people killed in this coutry from dogs vastly outnumbered those evenly seriously injured by any reptile....

Heck it seems like every month if you watch a tidbit of local news almost anywhere you see rotweilier or pit-ball disfiguring someone for life.....I think extra permits for these animals are more warranted than permits for most snakes/reptiles

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....please stop the spread of this kind of material that is harmful to our hobby

I am not for censorship......however, because in the long run its education about reptiles and reason that makes people un-fearful of snakes.....

Personally, I don’t think anyone expect zoos, museums, and research facilities should own a hot snake or a snake as big as an anaconda.....these animals belong in the wild.