Big Hunt for Pythons in Florida Everglades has Ended
The big hunt for Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades has ended.
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While in high school in the Canal Zone, I was fortunate to have several “pets” compliments of my dad who was the policeman in charge of the road gang at the Canal Zone Penitentiary. Among my pets were several boa constrictors and a jagaruindi (which I donated to the Jungle Warfare Training Center at Ft. Sherman when I left to attend college in Virginia.) Snakes were common in the Panama Canal Zone – some quite dangerous.
Pythons are not a native species in Florida. They are a real threat. Frank’s suggestions – while not original – should be considered as serious. It is the unknown unknown that is our problem.
The more I think about big snakes being worth $500, the more I ponder the situation. An even better way to catch them would be with young goats, tethered to a stake with food and water – and with a strand of 14 guage wire run through one foot and then wrapped around a tree. After that goat got to bleating and carrying on, the snakes would appear like magic. Since the snakes always eat their prey head first, they would get down to the foot and the wire and be there when you got there.
I suppose PETA won’t like this one either.
Sorry for the grammar fingers too big
Would anybody know the laws on nussiance laws for pythons I scared shoot stray cats getting in my garbage. Wouldnt hang them on the wall skin or pelt hahaha
While I think you have to be warm blooded with fur to have a pelt, still, a skin on the wall would be a handsom addition to a room. Especially a big one. I have heard about big snakes being here going back years. I was in a pond just west of town in the mid 90′s and when something huge slithered away. Never saw it but it was not a gator. I left. While the gumment and FWC are unlikely to anything meaningful, I firmly believe a bounty system would work. Now, at the risk of annoying PETA, a bunch of certifiable lunatics, here is how I would go about snake hunting in the southern regions.
First, buy a bunch of new born goats. They are cheap. Second, stake them out with some food and water on the dry hammocks all over the area. Third, check them every couple days. After a kill, a snake will typically lay up to digest the meal for a while. They are lethargic then and would be easy to dispatch.
Correct if im wrong I read in many articles not liberal florida has this problem for years now they asking the public for help. I wwould like to have pelt on the wall for a trophy cant make it south fl. Heard they been spotted in madison since the 90s
While I appreciate Jims nice comments, I don’t think I should get any credit for thinking outside the box on this one. This is pretty linear. Front page on the Taxahassee paper today is a great pic of a big snake. PETA is involved now, they are protesting that some snakes may be killed by decapitation and they feel that because of the reptile metabolism they may suffer after the fact. Personally, I can’t imagine it would last long. Good Lord. If there were a bounty on the critters, they would not last long. There is nothing that we don’t know about them. There is nothing that we need to study. They eat anything they catch they can get down their mouth. PS, maybe my suggestion (trying to allay eddies fears about cats being eaten) about selling the meat to Asains for supper should be considered outside the box!
Frank has the answers. Now what about the unintended consequences? I give Frank credit for thinking “outside the box.” And I give Frank credit for posts which are not vague with his name attached.
Jim Catron asked me where did I think the funding would come from for these snake bounties. After careful pondering my suggestion is to sell the meat to Vietnamese dining establishments so they can let up on the poor cats, and the skins to purse and boot makers. Probably make handsome wall decorations too.
uh, oh….
Not CATS!! Frank, you just raised an army of snake killers.
The fact is that these are great reptiles, beautiful and successful that happen to have been introduced to an environment that they don’t belong in. People meddling again. But they would not last long if they were worth enough money to fool with. Let me reiterate. A young female school teacher who is not much on snakes would quickly overcome her sqeamishness if the snake was worth $200 to her. She would run it over. She would wack it’s head off with the machete she would start to keep in the back of her car. She would throw the thing in the trunk and detour to turn it in and get her bounty. This ridiculous python “challenge” was nothing more than a photo op for a bunch of low life politicians. That includes the low life pols that run FWC. The wildlife biologists are smart , savvy and a real assett to the state agency. The appointed (ever wonder how you get appointed?) leaders…not so much. The snakes are decimating native wildlife. You no longer see many coons, possums etc in S. Fl. A tasty meal for the snakes. They like dogs and cats too.
Nobody is gonna put them on the endangered list. They are reptilian kudzu. Oh wait…. I forgot about PETA, the ASPCA and the HSUS! They want,to be the only ones who are allowed to “euthanize” as many animals as they want to. I am surprised they are not protesting the hunt already!!
Frank, you help make the case for bounty hunters.
Not to beat a dead horse, but if we got the gumment out of the way and put a $200 bounty on all pythons and a $500 bounty on snakes larger than 8 feet – by Christmas other gumment wackos would be putting them on the endangered species list. For $200 a school teacher on her way to class would stop and wack one crossing the road. Not like they are hard to kill – but can be hard to find. The sons of the guys that about wiped about the gators 50 years ago would make short work of these serpents. Just saying. What and who needs to study these great reptiles? What don’t they know? They will eat anything they can catch that they can get down their throat. End of story.