(06-28-2022, 11:19 AM)mikesez Wrote: There's no getting rid of them. We have to learn to live with them like we do with the black bear or the alligator.
We are lucky that the area does not seem hospitable to reticulated pythons. Both have been released, but only the burmese pythons seem to be taking over. Burmese pythons avoid humans but reticulated pythons sometimes attack humans.
As with gators, the threat is mostly to children and pets.

They can get rid of them, they just don't have enough people hunting them. Same thing with alligators, they would be gone if they didn't put limits on them.

The biggest issue is hunting them also means going into gator territory. I don't like going into lakes or ponds because you know there are gators there. I know I've probably been in some potentially bad situations in a canoe in tributaries off a river with only 1-2 people around. One time saw a dead 2-3 ft one on the shore, decided that was they time to head immediately back to the river.

I wouldn't walk into the swamp for anything.

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