Is this common in CA?

Vivjen

Vivjen

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25963943


Is this what you do when not on here?!

Police and health inspectors have discovered hundreds of snakes, some dead and some living, in a house in southern California.

Neighbours living close to the house in Santa Ana notified the authorities after noticing an unpleasant smell coming from the house. Nothing could prepare them for the scenes they discovered when they entered what one officer described as "a house of horrors".
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Falcon said:
The only snakes in California are in Sacramento.
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Falcon, this may be a stupid question, but is Sacramento where the State legislature is?
 

Viv, Santa Anna is the place where the dreaded Santa Anna Winds originate.

Moving at over 300kph they commonly blow all the snakes from the deserts into the local homes. It's been happening since the time of the Native Americans, who called the wind "Great Snake Tosser".

In this case, it appears to have gathered up quite a few mice as well - fortuitous, as the snakes were probably hungry after their aerial exploits.







... and of course, I'm kidding. :rolleyes:
 
This takes hoarding to a whole new level. These are imported exotic snakes and one more time, when is someone going to get in control of the law allowing these crazies to buy them? These things are already far too plentiful in the warmer areas of the US and don't belong here, ruining the ecology. That alone should be enough for someone to stop it.
 
Ina said:
Agreed Katy, my 13 year old golden retriever has been killing them since she was a pup. The count so far is 8 or 9 now. The last one almost killed her. We are Northeast of Houston, Texas.
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I'm glad to hear your retriever survived, Ina, and I know you are. But these pythons (referred to in the link) are ordered from foreign countries, and are far bigger and more dangerous than our North American snakes. They produce as many as 150/per litter (or whatever that's called w/snakes) South Florida's Everglades are in major ecological trouble w/them.
 
Katybug said:
This takes hoarding to a whole new level. These are imported exotic snakes and one more time, when is someone going to get in control of the law allowing these crazies to buy them? These things are already far too plentiful in the warmer areas of the US and don't belong here, ruining the ecology. That alone should be enough for someone to stop it.
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What is the problem about passing laws banning the importation of dangerous or noxious exotic species?
Surely that can be done at federal level without having to get all the states to agree?
 
If it's illegal, why are the live snakes not euthanized rather than sent to an animal sanctuary ?

We used to have laws banning the keeping of a pair of rabbits because of the damage rabbits were causing to pastures.
There were penalties and rabbits were confiscated and put down.
 
Warrigal said:
If it's illegal, why are the live snakes not euthanized rather than sent to an animal sanctuary ?



I wish I knew Warri. I lol when I hear that an exotic snake in the Everglades has been relocated....cuz ya know it can't possibly crawl back! We'll never get in control of it. Illegal or not, you can get anything you want and these things breed too many too quickly. Lost cause...
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