Damage To Wild Populations

[snakehill]

We could contact the Florida DEM. They are probably not even aware that this is going on!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

There is really nothing that can be done about it

That's the harsh, but brutal reality of the situation... Now at that price it's not likely they are kingsnake food as you can buy mice and rats for a fraction of that and you don't hav to pay overnight shipping on top of it. It's more likely they are for cobra keepers, and pet store owners. if you are going to use snakes as feeders at least breed the darned things yourself! It's more work but at least you are not taking a happy snake that was sunbasking and loving life and treating it as a worthless item. I don't like the idea of wild snakes being used as feeders at all, if you need to rape wild snakes to feed one snake, you need to learn some new techniques or find a new type of snake to keep. Or you could do it the hard way and breed them as food which no one should have anything against. But nobody will do it that way because it's not enough t sustain even one hungry snake. I myself use the bodies of any babies I have born that become failures to thrive as food for other things in my collection. Especially my giant centipedes.... But that is only after they have died or I have put them out first.

[snakehill]

I am trying to find contact numbers online.

[infernalis]

I agree with Shannon here folks. This practice is years old now, and those companies are not going to stop trafficking snakes as long as there is money in it.

If there was anything the law could do, or anything illegal going on, it would have been shut down long ago.

[RdubSnider]

That's terrible. And since there not worth much they rarely if ever get fed while waiting to be sold

[snakehill]

Sometimes you'd be surprised what a phone call from the right person could do!

[RedSidedSPR]

Yup. I seriously doubt there's anything we can do, but...

[jitami]

Based on other complaints I've heard about the classifieds there, calling the contact numbers likely won't get you anywhere, either. Couldn't hurt, I guess, but don't get your hopes up.

Not that it helps much, but the way I read it at 12 snakes they'd be $9 each, so $108 plus shipping... still way too cheap and way too many, though Unless there are special circumstances I just can't justify buying/selling wc animals.