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As a professional animal person (who loves big snakes by the way), that thing being terminated is ok with me. If it was really caught in a heavily populated area, I'd be there to help. Back in the day, I used to help rattle snake round ups in the Western Dakotas to help protect schools, playgrounds and housing developments from rattlers. The last thing I'd want is that thing crawling into my backyard while my daughter is playing.
Offering to a zoo is a joke. If it really is that big (even 7' plus), most facilities don't have the means to keep it. Also, anyone who has ever delt with taking wild animals into captive settings as adults will tell you it doesn't work out, and it's hard to keep them alive and healthy.
Offering to a zoo is a joke. If it really is that big (even 7' plus), most facilities don't have the means to keep it. Also, anyone who has ever delt with taking wild animals into captive settings as adults will tell you it doesn't work out, and it's hard to keep them alive and healthy.
Thanks for your input.Zoodiver;4961159; said:
Sometimes, people don't realize that there's big difference between wild animal and captive bred one, or the dangerous of venomous.Zoodiver;4961159; said:
Rattlesnake roundup? Why stop at rattlesnakes...round up dangerous mammals...how about spiders? Might as well sterilize everything we live amongst.
http://www.anapsid.org/roundup1.html
http://www.anapsid.org/roundup2.html
Zoodiver;4961159; said:
HOT or Not, 3' or 15' That snake did not have to be destroyed. It could have easily been relocated to an area of Fla. that is not overly populated by people. What? 75% of Fla is a swamp for CS. If people can live within walking distance of 12' Gators, they can live within miles of this guy.
Any respectable trapper would have been able to wrangle this guy, Bag him, and get him into a tote for relocation without fear of public safety. This guy wanted a Trophy plain and simple.
Mike
Red Devil;4961092; said:i don't care that i was wrong in the size.. but i am sad to see that they did kill him.. what a waste..am i still your favorite..
I guess so.....you do have a pretty good managuense thread going (one of my favorites)!
I'm not surprised that they would kill it. I'm not desensitized either. They see 14 potential key chains not an exhibit at the zoo! I agree that was still one awesome snake!
Mavrick813;4961214; said:
i've never actually done research but some of these shows on discovery channels and animal planet imply that the law in florida requires snakes and gators over a certain size to be immediately terminated? If that's the case, they're just following the law. i guess some of you don't care about your pets or childrens?
ballinouttacntrol;4961737; said:
This animal lived in the wild long enough to reach a size that for the most part has been seen by people 5 or so times in the last 100 years. I don't give a rats patootie what Fla Law may or may not say.
Wrangle, Bag, Tote, Relocate. Very simple concept.
As far as Pets and Children. What part of Relocate? And Fla being 75% uninhabited swamp land did we miss?
On a side note, some light reading.
The largest rattlesnake species, the maximum sizes reported are 244 cm (8.01 ft) (Klauber, 1972) and 251.5 cm (8.25 ft) (Ditmars, 1936). One captive specimen weighed over 26 pounds (12 kg). However, the stated maximum size has been called into question due to a lack of voucher specimens (Jones, 1997).[6]
Specimens over 7 ft (210 cm) are rare, but well documented. Klauberr (1998) includes a letter he received from E. Ross Allen in 1953, in which Allen explains how for years he offered a reward of $100, and later $200, for an 8 ft (240 cm) specimen, dead or alive. The reward was never claimed. He did receive a number of 7-foot (2.1 m) specimens and some 8-foot (2.4 m) skins, but said that such skins can be taken from a 6 ft (180 cm) snake.[3] A 7.3 ft (220 cm) specimen was caught and killed outside a neighborhood in St. Augustine, Florida in September 2009.[7]
The average size is much less: lengths of 3.5–5.5 ft (110–170 cm),[8] 84–183 cm (2.76–6.00 ft) are given.[9] One study found an average length of 170 cm (5.6 ft) based on 31 males and 43 females.[10]
well, seeing as how they found it, pretty sure it wasn't hiding deep in the wild....most of these calls where they're picked up and terminated is because they're found on the highway stopping traffic or they're in a residential neighborhood.
not sure why i should relocate it for it to snatch up a kid later
not sure why i should relocate it for it to snatch up a kid later
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