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PYTHONS ON THE LOOSE
Largest of Florida's pet pests invade Everglades
BY ROGER _WILLIAMS _____ rwilliams@florida-weekly.com
Suppose you could buy a legal firework as long as your hand, and grow it to be a two-story force of nature before igniting it?
Well you can't, so forget it. But what you can do is buy a python.
Burmese pythons are particularly popular for about $40 wholesale or just under $100 in a pet store, at about the size of a ruler. You feed a little one mice, and then rats, and then as it continues to grow in size and appetite, you offer up chickens and rabbits, the experts say.
You watch your snakeling graduate in about three years to a length of 10 or 12 feet, or longer. Ultimately it can reach 20 feet, and the heavyweights tip the scales at about 300 pounds, and live to about 25 years. Their defacatory production is renowned.
And while you're raising your young python, plan on accommodating its living needs, which make a teenager's look mild. At first, you can put it in a cage. Then you can put it in a very big cage. And finally, you'd just better give it an entire room, or the guest wing of your home. And if you get tired of feeding it four or five big rabbits at a time, go ahead and provide a small pig (or maybe an unruly child or, well, you get the picture).
Read more at http://www.florida-weekly.com/news/2007 ... s/001.html
Largest of Florida's pet pests invade Everglades
BY ROGER _WILLIAMS _____ rwilliams@florida-weekly.com
Suppose you could buy a legal firework as long as your hand, and grow it to be a two-story force of nature before igniting it?
Well you can't, so forget it. But what you can do is buy a python.
Burmese pythons are particularly popular for about $40 wholesale or just under $100 in a pet store, at about the size of a ruler. You feed a little one mice, and then rats, and then as it continues to grow in size and appetite, you offer up chickens and rabbits, the experts say.
You watch your snakeling graduate in about three years to a length of 10 or 12 feet, or longer. Ultimately it can reach 20 feet, and the heavyweights tip the scales at about 300 pounds, and live to about 25 years. Their defacatory production is renowned.
And while you're raising your young python, plan on accommodating its living needs, which make a teenager's look mild. At first, you can put it in a cage. Then you can put it in a very big cage. And finally, you'd just better give it an entire room, or the guest wing of your home. And if you get tired of feeding it four or five big rabbits at a time, go ahead and provide a small pig (or maybe an unruly child or, well, you get the picture).
Read more at http://www.florida-weekly.com/news/2007 ... s/001.html
