“But he was little and cute when I bought him!”
Covering the usual political nooze was oppressing my spirit this afternoon, I didn’t know what to write… and then my sister, Alice, called and suggested (pause) this.
Puerto Rico is being overrun with great big snakes that don’t belong there (https://www.vox.com/24144224/invasive-species-snakes-puerto-rico): notably the reticulated python (can grow to 30 feet long, biggest snake in the world), boa constrictor, and ball python.
The reticulated python has been known to swallow human beings. It doesn’t happen often, but people get a little edgy about it.
The big problem is the non-native snakes gobbling up native birds–and people’s cats and dogs–to the point where some of these birds might go extinct. No one has done anything about it.
Thirty-foot-long reticulated python, having pulled the family dog out of the dog-house, still hungry, finds the house’s back door left open and slithers eagerly into the kitchen…
Maybe they’d better make it their business to do something about it.
Yeesh, what a world!
ooh, snakes. We once rented an apartment to two brothers who brought in a cage with
snakes in it. I was sure glad when they moved out and took the snakes with them.
Human eating snakes and on one doing anything about it? What is wrong with the people on that island? My daughter dated a guy in high school whose dad traveled all over the USA collecting snakes. I visited the bedroom in their house that had the snakes caged – it gave me the willies.
I met someone who’d had his whole house remodeled to accommodate his unbelievable snake collection.
Snakes are fascinating, but not the best idea for a pet. Pythons are too big to be kept at home. I’ve held small ones, and seen huge ones up close, but keeping one as a pet is very difficult. It’s no wonder that they are tossed aside, and then left to forage in the wilds. I love snakes, but this problem should have been avoided.