Dee
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posted October 11, 2013 04:48 AM
  
It's an extraordinary circumstance, but hardly unique. There are millions of large constricting snakes traded via the Internet through private dealers like Parrinello, at reptile shows, and also at pet stores. In so many cases, those pet dealers are keeping the snakes in warehouse-type conditions, often inside exceptionally small, stacked, plastic containers no larger than a shoe or sweater box, and selling them through websites and at reptile expos.It's not good for the snakes, and there are all sorts of collateral impacts, mainly public-safety and ecological effects. Every day, I hear about incidents of snakes on the loose in some community — in recent days, there were incidents in Florida, Massachusetts, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Vermont More Here
http://news.yahoo.com/constrictor-attacks-continue-look-snake-trade-op-ed-202023741.html IP: Logged |
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