anacondas at pet supermarket

[fote03]

I have a big Burmese and I have had other big snakes. I have had fewer problems with my big snakes than with smaller ones and other pets that I have had in the passed. I see the problem with just any one keeping them. But if you have the time and space to take good care of them I don’t see why you should be allow. Soon they will start banning them but the problem will not be fixed. The stupid people will still have them and will make the same mistakes that they been making. I say they should make keepers have permits. And that you should do some hands on to get the permits. But like others have said today it is big snakes tomorrow it will be fish. I think if we could just stop stupid people from breeding and making more stupid people in about 100 yrs the world would be a hold lot better. But that's not going to happen. About Pet Supermarket, I worked there for about a year and quit because they don’t care for the animals it is just about the money. And in my experiences pet stores for the most part have one or two staff members that actually know anything about pets and most of them quit or get fired because they try helping the pets. But that is just my 2 cents

 

[unstopable4700]

freakin sweet. i got some back up for once

 

[Sunpoe]

for real. Several states have passed laws or tried to pass laws banning big snakes, and in some areas they've tried to pass laws banning reptiles altogether, all because some fools don't have a clue what they're doing and end up either getting hurt by the animal or mistreating it.

Why not ban cars? Every day I see plenty of people who don't know how to drive safely.

 

[midnight]

ok heres my problem with banning (in this case a snake that YOU are unfit to care for) is it just makes it easier to ban and govern everything else. ban the snakes, then the lizards, then spiders, then the fish

then the fish? LOL
i cant keep tilapia but i can an anaconda? think about that.

I say they should make keepers have permits. And that you should do some hands on to get the permits.

ding ding ding we have a winner.

 

[rottbo]

Oh yeah in my town its illegal to have a snake over 6' in the city limits with out a special permit which is hard to get

 

[davo]

Thats a problem. They make permits rediculously hard to obtain. For example i've heard of people that have a room dedicated to hots (venemous snakes) and had to get all the special locks and reinforced glass, the whole deal, which you had to do before asking so they could do a check and then they just decided they wouldnt give him one. If I knew they weren't stupid about issuing them, it wouldnt be a problem but i know it isn't always the case. And damn over 6ft! That really cuts down the species you can keep.

 

[Zoodiver]

I agree that a green should be a permit type animal. Permits aren't hard to get, you just have to play nice and work with them on it.

I've worked with several LARGE greens over the past several years. None I would qualify as good for anything but the top notch herp guys/gals. Somewhere on here there is a pic of me holding a smaller one.

 

[Danyal]

i just got back from steinhart aquarium about 4 hours ago and they had a green anaconda there and a rock python and i was lucky because they feed every friday. the guy simply walked into the rock python's cage and dangled the rat in front of it's nose, it didn't do a thing. all the snakes where very mellow about feeding except for the green andaconda, as soon as it realized that it was feeding time it did the same thing my kingsnake does, strike at everything but the dead rat in front of it's face. it even tried to bite a girls hand through the other side of the glass. i didn't see it stretched out but i'd have to guesstimate it as around 10'. i've been bit by lots of colubrids under 6' but i really wouldn't want to be nailed by that snake, the thought of an inexperienced young teen owning one just doesn't sound appealing to me, sure there are a few that will do what necessary and become perfectly capable keepers but there are many, many more how will try to dump them or neglect them. do the burms in the everglades sound familiar? pretty soon there are going to be a lot of state or even federal laws banning large boids if some screening measures aren't taken, exhibit a- snakeheads and piranhas and i'm pretty sure that more people have been killed by their pet burms, boas and retics than by piranha and snakeheads.

 

[guppy]

Getting various permits can vary in difficulty from place to place and be easy or hard, and change at any swing of the political winds. Do we want another evergrowing, expensive, and poorly trained bureaucracy justifying it's own existence by constantly seeking to expand it's influence on our lives. Remember, this is the government we are talking about, give them a rule to enforce and a dollar to do it with and the next year they will have snuck in 10 more rules and want 99 more dollars, with only the original dollar going to enforcement, the rest will be "admin" costs.
No thank you!

 

[davo]

Getting various permits can vary in difficulty from place to place and be easy or hard, and change at any swing of the political winds. Do we want another evergrowing, expensive, and poorly trained bureaucracy justifying it's own existence by constantly seeking to expand it's influence on our lives. Remember, this is the government we are talking about, give them a rule to enforce and a dollar to do it with and the next year they will have snuck in 10 more rules and want 99 more dollars, with only the original dollar going to enforcement, the rest will be "admin" costs.
No thank you!

Valid statement. Unfortunately people arent going to attend "big snake class" if it isnt compulsory by law. You are at a much higher risk working with them if you don't know what your doing, so the stupid will always get burned...