What snake is this? Thanks

[KORBIN5895]

As I said before I don't care all that much that you are killing snakes. That is not why I point out how foolish and ignorant your post are. I point out how foolish and ignorant your posts are because they are foolish and ignorant.

Now please explain the ecological disaster you mentioned in Florida.

[Doug 351]

Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

I use my country of origin because I'm proud of my nation.

As for dude killing the snake... Nichevo. I will admit I have killed many in my time and I like them. I am a very practical person and the reasons I have done what I have done are good enough for me.

Care to elaborate? The firing squad has to be running low on ammo by now. I don't know what your intention was, but mine was to make IDK feel like he hadn't done anything inexcusable and not to feel too bad about it and we're not just all snake lovers who freak out just because someone kills a snake. Guess I was wrong.

Sorry-but if this is how you treat the choir. ........

[KORBIN5895]

Originally Posted by Doug 351

Care to elaborate? The firing squad has to be running low on ammo by now. I don't know what your intention was, but mine was to make IDK feel like he hadn't done anything inexcusable and not to feel too bad about it and we're not just all snake lovers who freak out just because someone kills a snake. Guess I was wrong.

Sorry-but if this is how you treat the choir. ........

The choir? You haven't even made it into the vestibule of knowledge, let alone the sanctuary of wisdom.

Now please explain to me the ecological disaster in Florida that you think the government should be fixing.

[Doug 351]

Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

As I said before I don't care all that much that you are killing snakes. That is not why I point out how foolish and ignorant your post are. I point out how foolish and ignorant your posts are because they are foolish and ignorant.

Now please explain the ecological disaster you mentioned in Florida.

Sorry-we were both posting at the same time. Florida has a huge problem with large snakes that were released by those kind of idiots you want to regulate back home (maybe).I say maybe because how they got into the ecosystem isn't known for sure. It could have been responsible owners that had snake escape proof cages but they weren't hurricane proof.My money is on the former. Anyway now pythons and anacondas are breeding in the wild and their numbers and range is expanding at an alarming rate.

The government response is obviously failing. My solution is not some esoteric theory that evolved in my head, but based on history and what has worked and what hasn't. The government has placed bounties on nuisance animals in the past in this country and they were hunted to the point of extinction.

I don't have to tell you what it takes to subdue a 10'+ snake for capture. That's IF you can get it in a position to capture it in the first place.

But any redneck with a shotgun can take one out just seeing it's head in range. I don't know if this would solve the problem or not, but the government has to regulate the harvest of alligators mainly because they are worth money.

So the point is-the only viable solution is to kill many of these snakes. Whether we like it or not is the semantics.

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[smy_749]

I stated in the first page or so that he shouldn't be bashed for what he'd done and I can't blame him and hes doing his part.

YOU SAID that you sometimes kill snakes even when you know they are harmless and non-venomous or poisonous as you say....Which is stupid and ignorant and we do NOT support that on these forums.

What IDK did is different than what you talked about, don't confuse the two.

[KORBIN5895]

Originally Posted by Doug 351

Sorry-we were both posting at the same time. Florida has a huge problem with large snakes that were released by those kind of idiots you want to regulate back home (maybe).I say maybe because how they got into the ecosystem isn't known for sure. It could have been responsible owners that had snake escape proof cages but they weren't hurricane proof.My money is on the former. Anyway now pythons and anacondas are breeding in the wild and their numbers and range is expanding at an alarming rate.

The government response is obviously failing. My solution is not some esoteric theory that evolved in my head, but based on history and what has worked and what hasn't. The government has placed bounties on nuisance animals in the past in this country and they were hunted to the point of extinction.

I don't have to tell you what it takes to subdue a 10'+ snake for capture. That's IF you can get it in a position to capture it in the first place.

But any redneck with a shotgun can take one out just seeing it's head in range. I don't know if this would solve the problem or not, but the government has to regulate the harvest of alligators mainly because they are worth money.

So the point is-the only viable solution is to kill many of these snakes. Whether we like it or not is the semantics.

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Maybe you should go do some research.

[smy_749]

Originally Posted by Doug 351

Sorry-we were both posting at the same time. Florida has a huge problem with large snakes that were released by those kind of idiots you want to regulate back home (maybe).I say maybe because how they got into the ecosystem isn't known for sure. It could have been responsible owners that had snake escape proof cages but they weren't hurricane proof.My money is on the former. Anyway now pythons and anacondas are breeding in the wild and their numbers and range is expanding at an alarming rate.

The government response is obviously failing. My solution is not some esoteric theory that evolved in my head, but based on history and what has worked and what hasn't. The government has placed bounties on nuisance animals in the past in this country and they were hunted to the point of extinction.

I don't have to tell you what it takes to subdue a 10'+ snake for capture. That's IF you can get it in a position to capture it in the first place.

But any redneck with a shotgun can take one out just seeing it's head in range. I don't know if this would solve the problem or not, but the government has to regulate the harvest of alligators mainly because they are worth money.

So the point is-the only viable solution is to kill many of these snakes. Whether we like it or not is the semantics.

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They should have like a competition, where the winner who kills the most snakes gets like, money and stuffs. Then people from all over who are experts at hunting snakes, and those crazy 'ol rednecks could hunt em all down and shoot em all and solve the problem and maybe win a prize. I bet they will find so many, and they will stop that crazy infestation of theirs, eating alligators and boats and what not.

[Doug 351]

Wow-Fred Alistaire would be proud. Korbin-you ought to be a professional dancer.Still waiting- why did you post that and what are the reasons that made it OK to kill harmless snakes that were "good enough for me? "

[Doug 351]

Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

Maybe you should go do some research.

I believe I already did and showed so.

If you want to make me look the fool, do so with realistic solutions backed up by fact.lf you want to play the fool- carry on.

[ErikBush97]

Originally Posted by Doug 351

Toads are one of my favorite animals.

You edited your post and deleted this but you said

Originally Posted by Doug 351

I know toads help the environment

So you "know" they help, you just don't know how? I like snakes. I'm not going to go kill birds, cats, etc so they don't get eaten just because snakes are my favorite animal. That's pretty ignorant, and flat out stupid. You haven't once said why these toads are so important that you need to kill their predators. I feel like you're doing it merely because toads are one of your favorite animals. If I knew that snakes were important to my environment, but I didn't know why they were important, I wouldn't go kill the foxes, and cats that you'll regularly see munching on Garters..

[smy_749]

Originally Posted by ErikBush97

You edited your post and deleted this but you said



So you "know" they help, you just don't know how... I like snakes. I'm not going to go kill birds and cats, etc so they don't get eaten just because snakes are my favorite animal. That's pretty ignorant.

Touche Erik. Nice catch

[ErikBush97]

Originally Posted by smy_749

Touche Erik. Nice catch

I am not really into being a part of this argument, I just can't start to understand why someone would/could do that.

[Doug 351]

Originally Posted by ErikBush97

You edited your post and deleted this but you said



So you "know" they help, you just don't know how? I like snakes. I'm not going to go kill birds, cats, etc so they don't get eaten just because snakes are my favorite animal. That's pretty ignorant, and flat out stupid. You haven't once said why these toads are so important that you need to kill their predators. I feel like you're doing it merely because toads are one of your favorite animals. If I knew that snakes were important to my environment, but I didn't know why they were important, I wouldn't go kill the foxes, and cats that you'll regularly see munching on Garters..

I have no idea what you are talking about with the deletion thing. Funny how you can find little things like that and miss the point of a whole post.

When they are little they eat mosquitoes. When they get older they eat bugs that eat or damage crops.I'm not going to keep arguing this.

[KORBIN5895]

Originally Posted by Doug 351

I believe I already did and showed so.

If you want to make me look the fool, do so with realistic solutions backed up by fact.lf you want to play the fool- carry on.

You haven't researched anything or you would know that they had a competition this past spring and paid for the biggest burm ( under 12' and iirc was about 10') ,a prize for the most ( which I think was 19 ) caught by one individual and various other cash prizes. You would also know that this month long competition netted less than 1000 burms and most of them were babies. You would also know that most of the burms in the Everglades can be genetically traced back to a breeding facility that was damaged in a hurricane. Also that a large portion of the wild burms were killed off in an unusually cold winter last year iirc.

The exact numbers may be off as I put that all down from memory.

Again run along because your ignorance is starting to embarrass even me.

[smy_749]

Kevin, I believe they only found 68 snakes. Somewhere between 15-1800 people too I think