I caught him on the silver river, pinned him with a stick and carried it thru a distance of woods to the boat ramp, put him in a paper bag and took him home. I kept him in a tank in a shed out back.
Had it for a few weeks until my Canadian stepdad figured out what is was. "What kind of snake is that, ey?" *me* "it's a banded water snake.
He found a field guide in my room, the jig was up! I had to help him kill it. He was scared $#@!less and could hardly weild the axe as I held the snake with a noose on a pole!
‘There is no God but Resister and Refugee is his messenger’.
Book of Democrat Things, Chapter 1:1
Peter1469 (01-06-2018)
Unfortunately, people acquire these snakes and then when they get so large that they have to start feeding them live rabbits, they don't want them anymore and just dump them in some wilderness area. Florida has a perfect climate for them and plenty to eat, so they thrive. The importation of these animals should carry a serious prison sentence unless they are going to someone licensed to own them.
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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Last i heard Texas (thanks for stupid rep, folks) leads the US in "private" big cat "ownership."
Ownership my ass. They own you. Yah, yah, yah most pets do but this is plain stupid. And makes me sad for the big guys.
At the end of the day...I am still glad that I am me. Tail and all.