Got this today and HAD to share it. You gotta see this.

i'm gonna have bad dreams, and I LIKE snakes. But that is just too much. *scary*

 

Holy God... No, I couldn't get away from that, I don't think! Thanks for sharing... Very very enlightening!

 

I've seen those pictures before, except last time I saw them the caption said they were in africa?

 

The snake in question was in South Africa and there are a lot of versions of this story.
It is true by the way that the snake does/did exist and can eat good sized animals.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/fencesnake.asp

 

Snopes quotes the ranch site as "Over four meters"

 

I'm glad it wasn't in Missouri.

Jan

 

JD....I have one word for that Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

I don't like snakes and will avoid them at all costs....if I see them, if they surprise me they're dead! I simply cannot imagine a snake that BIG! Thats just " eww, ick!"

 

I got that about 4 years ago in an email. scary stuff! Must be some powerful electric fences in Africa!

 

lol, this picture was really common a couple years ago. I used to breed snakes, actually (still have three these days, but I don't do any breeding anymore) and on the forums I was at this picture circulated like wildfire, especially from anti-snake people coming in and trying to villain-ize us "snake people".

Snopes however, is our friend. lol

So strange to see this pic on a goat forum so long after the fact!

 

Wow!!!! :shocked: :shocked: :shocked: That is HUGE!! :shocked:

 

This one was caught in Florida.


So was this one.

Coming soon to a state near you:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 111456.htm

 

All because of irresponsible cads who just HAD to get that "totally awesome wicked burmese python!!!!" and then get suddenly scared/overwhelmed/bored with their now 5, 8, 12, 15 foot long commitment of time, space, and resources.

What oh what to do with a snake that big? Zoos don't want them, the pet store won't take them back, no one on Craigslist will take them even if you throw cash at them too... Oh, great idea - let them go in the nearest "wild" looking area.

Fact of the matter is, this is NOT a problem in ANY state where freezing temperatures EVER occur.

ALL PYTHON SPECIES will DIE when the temperature reaches freezing or below. Being cold blooded, their internal temperature sinks to the temperature of their surroundings. NO snakes do NOT come back to life after thawing out.

The government is attempting to make a national scare out of a local problem.

This is a topic I've personally been fighting against for a couple of years now. We already vetoed two bans on pythons, but the anti-snake people are ever insistent that snakes are a plague, and are somehow mutated to be super resistant to a climate that is 100% unnatural to that species. And no, snakes do not adapt to that sort of thing. That's like a salt water fish adapting to being suddenly, one day, a fresh water fish.

Case in point, if you take a burmese python(african rock python, reticulated python, anaconda, or any other tropical snake) whose housing REQUIREMENTS include a temperature gradient 98 - 82 degrees F, and tweak it's temperature down ten degrees, it will get an upper respiratory infection. In less than a year, it's lungs will fill with fluid, and it will effectively drown.

Snakes that sick do not produce viable offspring, either.

Some places in the US are suitable for a continued lifespan of pythons. Half of the US? Absolutely not. If it ever freezes in your area - tropical snakes can NOT survive there outside. Boas, pythons, colubrids alike.

 

Wow... Interesting :scratch: .

That kinda got me upset because I am one of those animal freaks, but I am sure if that thing came to eat me I would think otherwise...

 

Well, none of them would come to eat you. lol

Snakes don't even ever try to bite people unless they feel threatened. Notice that whenever the people on TV are getting snapped at, they're antagonizing a wild animal or grabbing it, or holding it up, or manipulating it... If you're slow and steady and don't touch it and simply try to "back away slowly"... You'll be left as unmolested as you left the snake.

This whole "the pythons are taking over America zomg!!11!!" thing is just frustrating to those of us with any snake know-how. Mostly because 90% of America is glad to just eat what the TV dishes out to them, instead of researching it and getting the facts for themselves. ^.~

 

Well, that is a relief! My neighbor got one out of his backyard a few years back. It is good to know they can't multiply in this area.