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One of the things I really admire about America is your system of looking after the game and native animals, paying a bounty is a good part of this I would think. There was a time when we also had a bounty system but that is long gone in most cases. The fox domestic cats and Indonesian Myna are three that should have bounties while we still have a few native animals left. I live in suburbia and would have my Cup of tea and toast on my veranda with the red and blue wrens every morning, have not seen one in several years now but have trapped and sent about 60 cats to pound in last few years, 17 in one week is my best. I am not a real cat lover but my wife is so our cat remains inside, I do long for the days when I used to get between $6 and $8 a skin in my young days. There are those that find it hard to believe that cats running wild in the bush actually kill all native animals including our Wallabies. Regards Stephen
Stephen, all invasive species are treated as the pythons are. We have been beset with Green Iguanas which are not native, create a mess and eat native vegetation. While they are in no way protected people won't kill them because they like the way they look or are good for the tourist trade. Thanks to a couple of hurricanes and some uncaring owners who have discarded their pets in the Everglades there a lot of non-natives out there. It's just that some thrive better than others.
This sounds like a 2021 covid summer vacation!
Skin some pythons!
I spent some time in South Florida,
sometimes I miss that swamp.
Regs say you have to be a resident to apply.
I wonder if you can collect a bounty without a permit, knowing FL probly not.
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Python is good in chili — or so Kalil says. She also likes it in stir fry. But her favorite way to eat python is to pressure cook it for 10 or 15 minutes, sauté it with onions and garlic, and add it to pasta and sauce.Dec 12, 2020
Haven't found a rattler yet around here big enough to make a hat-band, but a python would do.
I ate snake once on a survival course and found it tasty, but I had not eaten in a couple days. I once suggested to a senior wild life officer that we should allow people to keep native species as pets and that may well lower the number of cats being kept by animal lovers, he assured me he once suggested that and near lost his position over such a suggestion. I know the cat lovers will carry on but in this country they are by far the worst invasive species we have. Regards Stephen
May i ask.what is a nutria?
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Bought the Diana 350 magnum 177 pellet rifle from Numrich for the sole purpose of disposing iguanas around here. My neighbor has about 30 to his credit in the last couple of months. Now for some time off to hone my skills for that project.
We were down in the everglades during Christmas. We took a boat tour; the guy in the tour said that possums, rabbits and racoons have pretty much been wioed out by the pythons. Alligator population has been negatively impacted because the snakes catch and eat the young shortly after they hatch.
They hunt and capture them in good numbers, but the snakes produce several thousand young each year. It is difficult to keep up.
Bounty info...
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl...dou-story.html
An even worse threat is on the way. Singer sort of large lizard called a Tegu. It may give the pythons competition. Snakes and alligators eat once every few days or week. This lizard will eat every day.
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I've had chicken fried rattlesnake several times. Like chicken bites, quite tasty, especially with some good cream gravy.
Actually, the taste of the rattlesnake is very mild, like chicken breast, most taste was in the breading and gravy.
One of my father's favorite statements: "If I say a chicken dips snuff, look under his wing for the snuffbox" How I was raised, who I am.
Friend in S Ga. books lizard hunts in everglades, only use pellet guns (air or spring) as guess firearms are not allowed. He’s written a cookbook on using them.
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A fur bearing , plant eating , invasive animal from South America ... they escaped into the Louisiana wetlands and do damage to levees and water ways and marsh vegetation .
They have a $6.00 bounty on the tails turned in , you can keep the fur and the meat is very good...if you are a Cajun and can cook wild game ...it's one of the tastier animals .
Riding up and down the canals at night shooting them is practiced by many local Sherriff's Departments ... Swat Team rifle practice !
I would much prefer to have Nutria's than them huge awful Snakes ... I don't like snakes either !
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Snakes eat whatever they kill, however-
Common house cats running around loose outside, and stray dogs in packs are about the only animals,
besides people that kill things and do it just because they can.
Packs of dogs kill a lot of deer by running them to death, and then don't eat them.
Cats will do their best to eliminate the bird population in their area, and not always eat them either.
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