Last Chance to stop the Python and Boa Ban!

[ConcinusMan]

http://www.hsus.org/pets/issues_affe...s_as_Pets.html
Read for yourself. It could not be more clear, and it is absolutely not open to any other interpretation. It is a 100% unambiguous attack on keeping any reptile as a pet. And they're backing with their multi-million dollar budget devoted primarily to lobbying. You have a powerful enemy that you didn't even realize was your enemy.

The only thing I get from that link is that they strongly discourage it and you had to dig deep just to find that. Sure didn't seem like an attack to me and that page alone does not equal an all out campaign to ban reptiles as pets. They also make very good points.

Child killing? I hope you realize that the Florida Burm was innocent.

What animal isn't? Piranhas are innocent. Deadly venomous snakes are innocent. Does that mean just anyone should have the right to buy and keep them?

Unless you honestly believe that an 8 foot long snake decided to try to eat a 2-year old.

Wasn't the first time, and won't be the last.

That poor, emaciated, neglected snake was framed by its drug-abusing, child-murdering owner.
Ever hear of a python striking its unmoving, sleeping prey several times before constricting it? Oh, yeah--how did it manage to bite the child several times without waking her? And how is it that a large grown man couldn't remove the snake from her, but had to stab it in the back of the neck...without once missing and hitting the kid?

You've got to be kidding me. Yeah, poor snake. You weren't there. "unmoving" you say, was she asleep? you don't know that. Also, a grown man couldn't remove the snake for obvious reasons. If you don't know what that reason is, you shouldn't own a large python. Never seen a snake immobilize a prey item, let go and bite again? C'mon.

Ever stab snake in the back of the neck? Probably not. Ever see someone cut off a snake's head? Do you think it would remain coiled around its prey if you did? Or would it writhe around for a long time, dying slowly?

Same thing happened right here in Portland, OR. So called "tame" burmese python laying with it's owner. Pet for almost 20 years. Snake bit the guy on the *** and started constricting. 5 firefighters could not get the snake off of the guy. They cut off it's head, and this caused the snake to constrict even more, and muscles locked that way.

They found the snake coiled around the child, dead, with a knife in the back of its neck. She had multiple bites on her. Of course, they didn't find her for HOURS after the 911 call, because druggy boyfriend refused the police admittance to the house without a warrant. Did you know that?

The man suffocated that poor child, goaded the snake into biting her--possibly even just forced its mouth open to make it leave tooth marks on her--and then he killed it. Then he posed it with the child. Then he called 911. Then he realized he had drugs in the house, so he shouldn't let the cops in...what a genius.

Definitely not a genius. I believe this is a case of "believing is seeing". You don't want to believe the snake did that to the child, and you want anyone but the snake to blame so therefore, the "evidence" can only support your belief. There cannot be another possibility because that would threaten your sense of reality.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not drawing conclusions as to what really happened. You shouldn't either. The fact that the guy was a druggie doesn't make any difference, it just makes it easier for you to justify blaming him. You're right though, in any case, the snake is just being a snake and is therefore innocent. So is a pool of piranhas if they devour a child that falls in. I suppose everyone should have the right to have a pool of piranhas in their house, with small children present?

Those snakes are dangerous by nature and therefore innocent. People are stupid by nature and therefore must be governed. Yes, I know, the stupid ones are ruining it for the responsible owners. What else is new.

I'm sorry but I don't think there is anything responsible about keeping a 20 foot snake capable of swallowing a human being, and then calling it a "pet".