{"id":76,"date":"2009-07-14T08:04:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/?p=76"},"modified":"2013-06-03T22:31:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T03:31:30","slug":"another-feral-snake-found-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/field-notes\/another-feral-snake-found-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Another feral snake found in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"320\" height=\"280\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxtampabay.com\/video\/videoplayer.swf\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"video\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"&amp;skin=MP1ExternalAll-MFL.swf&amp;embed=true&amp;adSrc=http%3A%2F%2Fad%2Edoubleclick%2Enet%2Fadx%2Ftsg%2Ewtvt%2Fnews%2Fmetro%2Fregion%5F5%2Fdetail%3Bdcmt%3Dtext%2Fxml%3Bpos%3D%3Btile%3D2%3Bsz%3D320x240%3Bord%3D167195849957997100%3Frand%3D0%2E4874860148641142&amp;flv=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyfoxtampabay%2Ecom%2Ffeeds%2FoutboundFeed%3FobfType%3DVIDEO%5FPLAYER%5FSMIL%5FFEED%26componentId%3D130193473&amp;img=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia2%2Emyfoxtampabay%2Ecom%2F%2Fphoto%2F2009%2F07%2F08%2F0708snakes5%5Ftmb0000%5F20090708173907%5F640%5F480%2EJPG&amp;story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyfoxtampabay%2Ecom%2Fdpp%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fnature%5Fcoast%2FBoa%5Fconstrictor%5Ffound%5Fat%5FPasco%5Fhome%5F070809\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxtampabay.com\/video\/videoplayer.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>HOLIDAY &#8211; A large Boa Constrictor was found hiding in a home gutter Tuesday, giving the man who found it quite a scare.<br \/>\n&#8220;I ran!&#8221; said Joe Saint Aubin, a longtime lawn man who was cutting the grass at a customer&#8217;s home when he spotted the bulging five-foot snake peeking from a drain pipe.<br \/>\n&#8220;Nobody lives here. These are snowbirds. It has no reason to be here. None of the neighbors lost it. Where it came from, God knows,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nA local trapper took the constrictor, which is believed to have been a pet that either escaped its home or was dumped by its owner. Boa constrictors are not native to Florida, and should not be roaming wild.<br \/>\nSaint Aubin&#8217;s find coincides with a congressional hearing looking into the proliferation of non-native species.<br \/>\nFlorida Senator Bill Nelson wants to ban exotic snake imports, specifically pythons.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s just a matter of time before one of these snakes gets to a visitor in the Florida Everglades,&#8221; said Nelson.<br \/>\nWildlife officers estimate there are 150,000 to 180,000 pythons loose in Florida.<br \/>\n&#8220;Things that belong here are now in competition with these snakes,&#8221; said Gary Morse with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission.<br \/>\nIn addition to highlighting environmental concerns, Senator Nelson also mentioned the story of Shaiunna Hare, the two-year-old who was strangled and killed by a pet python July 1.<br \/>\nNelson said pythons should be banned as pets.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m glad this damn python is a long way from where I live,&#8221; said Michigan Senator Carl Levin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOLIDAY &#8211; A large Boa Constrictor was found hiding in a home gutter Tuesday, giving the man who found it quite a scare. &#8220;I ran!&#8221; said Joe Saint Aubin, a longtime lawn man who was cutting the grass at a customer&#8217;s home when he spotted the bulging five-foot snake peeking from a drain pipe. &#8220;Nobody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,45,35,17,24,12,18,14,42,6,32],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-notes","tag-animal-control","tag-attic-rats","tag-attic-restoration","tag-exotic","tag-florida","tag-nuisance-wildlife-relocation","tag-pets","tag-python","tag-snake-removal","tag-wildlife-control","tag-wildlife-removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}