Florida paying bounty hunters to control its python population

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"If wrestling with an 18ft snake in the middle of the night in a swamp doesn't put you off – we're hiring."

BBC article here

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Hey- this looks like fun :rolleyes: You go, girls!

"...Amy Siewe – or the python huntress as she's also known – is scanning the roads and grassy verges of South Florida. She's after a legendary 20 footer – a 6m-long invasive Burmese python, slithering through the grass in search of prey to strangle and consume. "You never know when that girl is gonna be coming across the road, so you wanna be there for it," she says..."

The hunters work in pairs, and so Siewe's sidekick will tape the snake's mouth shut...

Reminded me of the story a month ago about the guy who crossed from NY into Canada to buy three (presumably juvenile) Burmese pythons and was caight on the return trip with them tied in special "sleeves" in his pants :eek: "So you like big snakes, Mr. Bautista? We're sending you to Florida for a couple of months..."
 

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Another article in the past week or so said Burmese pythons were the new sustainable protein foodstuff! Can live for about a year without food, drink enough water to survive by licking the morning dew off their skins, and are hence easy to raise with minimal care. Being farmed in Vietnam, I think it was, right now!

Easy-peasy to prepare as well, as you just peel the skin off and the large fillets are there for the taking!

Fire up the BBQ.

Yummy!
 
In 1985ish I bought a hatchling Burmese to raise. I started him out on small white mice, two was a full meal, then in a couple of weeks he had grown enough to accept a baby chick - then two- than three. More growth and he was accepting white lab rats. Grew like a weed. At 18 months he was slightly less than eight feet long and eating two domesticated rabbits a week. He could have easily killed me if he got around my neck and constricted.
 
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Onomea said:
Another article in the past week or so said Burmese pythons were the new sustainable protein foodstuff!...
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Yes, I saw that one, too (unfortunately) No doubt a viable solution but "include me out." :eek: Insects, too. Those swarms of cicadas could be put to good use. Just need a few dozen of those huge nets they put around golf practice ranges and voilà!
 
YeshuaIsa53 said:
Are they illegally here? ;)
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See below for how AND WHEN the current problem occurred. Most were purchased legally then released when they became more than the owner could handle.
I'm not accusing but am curious about the what happened and where.

MRB1 said:
In 1985ish I bought a hatchling Burmese to raise. I started him out on small white mice, two was a full meal, then in a couple of weeks he had grown enough to accept a baby chick - then two- than three. More growth and he was accepting white lab rats. Grew like a weed. At 18 months he was slightly less than eight feet long and eating two domesticated rabbits a week. He could have easily killed me if he got around my neck and constricted.
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