Pythons - the snake, not the gun - coming to Tejas

[Greybeard]

Hopefully not in my lifetime.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/200 ... yahoorefer

With recent ones dumped in Arkansas, I guess we'll have to count on KB and Co. to stop 'em at the border.

[mr surveyor]

looks like my .38 special snake shot loads may be a bit underpowered for them critters, and my snub RG14 .22 cal with shot shells probably wouldn't even make 'em mad!

[dukalmighty]

If you see one, don't attempt to engage it. Leave the area, note the location and notify the authorities

Apparently they are referring to unarmed sheeple,I see onea them in my yard i'm emptying my 45 in him ,then i'm gonna find out what BBQ'd python tastes like

[AEA]

Ahhhhh Haaaaa!

An engagement that I won't have to go to Court over!

[gmckinl]

Apparently they are referring to unarmed sheeple,I see onea them in my yard i'm emptying my 45 in him ,then i'm gonna find out what BBQ'd python tastes like

Careful of the shots, keep'm to the head. You've got to save the leather for a new pair of boots.

[boomerang]

That would make a nice belt and holster for your bbq gun.

[Venus Pax]

The Burmese python is not poisonous and not considered a danger to humans. Attacks on humans have involved pet owners who mishandle and misfeed the snakes, Snow says. In Florida, they eat bobcats, deer, alligators, raccoons, cats, rats, rabbits, muskrats, possum, mice, ducks, egrets, herons and song birds. They grab with their mouth to anchor the prey, then coil around the animal and crush it to death before eating it whole.


I'm convinced.

[tboesche]

Apparently they are referring to unarmed sheeple,I see onea them in my yard i'm emptying my 45 in him ,then i'm gonna find out what BBQ'd python tastes like

Careful of the shots, keep'm to the head. You've got to save the leather for a new pair of boots.

[TDDude]

"They" are running out of ideas to "scare" us poor sheeples with.

Pythons, right. Give me a break. It's a snake and ever since fire ants invaded in the early '80s, everything that breeds on the ground has a hard time simply surviving. This includes snakes.

If you have fire ants in your area, you have a very low snake population. You also have a low rabbit, lizard, quail, etc... population.

I remember as a kid in the Pre-Fire Ant Days, I only had to poke around for a few minutes and I could find all kinds of crawly critters of the scaly kind. Now, it's rare.

It really must have been a super slow news day for USA Today.

[Venus Pax]

If you have fire ants in your area, you have a very low snake population. You also have a low rabbit, lizard, quail, etc... population.

Interesting that you bring this up. We just sold our house/property outside of Crosby a few months ago. I rarely saw snakes, although we did have quite the fire ant population. I think, in the five years we lived there, I saw four or five snakes on my own property. (Neighbors' dogs used to stroll up with dead ones all the time on her property, but I think said red-neck-dogs were hunting them.) Two of those that I found alive were poisonous, and I don't allow them to live very long.

I always attributed the few run-ins with snakes to that area being rather sparsely populated; therefore, snakes and other creepy-crawlies had room to themselves.

We never did get rid of the fire ants, and it wasn't for lack of trying. I couldn't do any gardening without getting eaten up. They even ruined a portion of our septic system's pump, costing us $600. Like the mosquito, I'm really curious why Noah didn't eliminate them from the ark.

[longtooth]

If you have fire ants in your area, you have a very low snake population. You also have a low rabbit, lizard, quail, etc... population.

Like the mosquito, I'm really curious why Noah didn't eliminate them from the ark.

He did not have permission.

[Venus Pax]

If you have fire ants in your area, you have a very low snake population. You also have a low rabbit, lizard, quail, etc... population.

Like the mosquito, I'm really curious why Noah didn't eliminate them from the ark.

He did not have permission.

Guess I can't argue with that!

[shootthesheet]

Since global climate normalization has people scared I will only comment on the snake. I can't imagine ever seeing one outside of a pet store. I worry more about wild hogs and killer bees than I ever will about some snake trying to survive the worlds cyclical weather patterns long enough to move into most any part of Texas. Reminds me of “Snakes on a Plane�. What a bunch of maroons.

...But, but we have data going all the way back to the end of the "Little Ice Age".

[srothstein]

Apparently they are referring to unarmed sheeple,I see onea them in my yard i'm emptying my 45 in him ,then i'm gonna find out what BBQ'd python tastes like

I have always been told that they taste just like chicken.

Of course, according to my daughter, if it ain't beef, then it tastes just like chicken, and she is not sure about the beef all the time either.

[308nato]

Does anyone know the differance between a northern zoo and a southern zoo?

Well you know all the cages have a plack with a discription of each animal in it in the northern zoo,
in the southern zoos they have the same system but with each discription there is also a recipe on how to BBQ it.