Saturday August 1, 2009, 10:12 am
I couldn't imagine finding this on my property. But I can't see why they couldn't find a sanctuary for it instead of killing it. This is why I hate when people get them as pets and than release them somewhere when they get too big. They belong in the wild and should be banned as pets. People make me sick anymore. Thanks Cher.

Saturday August 1, 2009, 1:03 pm
Someone wipe these people's smile off their stupid faces. Another story of human ignorance, stupidity and cruelness.

Sunday August 2, 2009, 12:05 pm
Sanctuaries..just like shelters are all so over crowded as it..We can't keep doing this to animals and expecting any other than a bad outcome..
People need to be responsible..and Elvia..I agree with you..It is nothing but human ignorance and cruelty..that causes this..
Thanks Cher..
Sadly noted..

Sunday August 2, 2009, 2:02 pm
Thank you Cher for your attention to this issue. This is a much bigger problem than it may first appear to be. Do you remember that only a month ago, in Sumter County in Florida, a Burmese python, less than half the size of this one, escaped from its enclosure and killed a two year old girl in its crib? See MSNBC.COM story "Girl, 2, strangled by pet python...". The story also quotes the US Humane Society's statement that "...at least 12 people have been killed in the U.S. by pet pythons since 1980, including five children". According to this same MSNBC.COM article Burmese pythons are the most common ones in Florida, and they are kept in pet shops and in people's homes. In hurricanes, such as Hurricane Andrew in 1992 they escape through windows smashed by fierce winds. I encourage you to read how some people in Florida who were keeping pet pythons were appropriately shocked and horrified by this story, and then decided it would be a good time to turn their snakes over to a wildlife refuge: http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/wildlife/article1016810.ece Last Point:: The problem did not begin with the snakes, but now it is the snakes. The need for legislation to stop the importation, reproduction, sale and housing of pythons by anyone who is not a serpentologist and a benevolent zoologist seems pretty obvious to me. As for cleaning up the problem? I welcome suggestions... But I am not in favor of further [human] deaths while pythons and the rights of python owners in Florida and other US states are protected.

Sunday August 2, 2009, 2:40 pm
Seems to me what we need is human population control, so that we don't continue to encroach upon and destroy the habitats of every other being on the planet. Humans are the problem, not the pythons or any other animal. Why do humans insist on keeping animals obviously unfit for domestication as pets? It doesn't make sense. And once we finally "get it", it is always the animals who pay the price. What are the buffoons in the photo grinning about? How is it pleasant in any way to have been responsible for the murder of someone as majestic as this 17 foot python? Perhaps one day humans will finally become as smart as they think they are...but after I see a ridiculously cruel stunt like this, I have serious doubts.

Thursday August 6, 2009, 1:13 am
they should not have killed that snake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they should bloody wipe that stupid smile of there face and relies what they have done.... poor little thing!