Here is a good one for you. A man from Michigan’s upper peninsula reported his snake stolen, the unusual part is he claims his snake was stolen in November 2009. He claimed to know who stole it but when asked why it took him 14 months to report it he only said at the time he was doing some bad stuff with bad people. Police questioned the woman that he claims stole the snake but of course she denied it and stated he more than likely misplaced the animal. There are currently no leads in the case.
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One tough director
The Deputy Director of an education department drove himself to the Hospital after being bitten by a snake but not before catching the snake and dropping by the Vets office to get it properly identified as a Puff Adder. The conservation department got the snake from the vet later that day. There is no word what will happen to the snake but the victim is expected to fully recover.
45,000 bucks in reptiles stolen
66 reptiles were stolen from Lost World Reptiles on Monday. Apparently the shop had no security cameras in place and the owners nor the authorities have any ideas who took the animals. The owners are devastated as most of the animals were imported from the U.S. as babies and raised by them and now they will have to start over. The police did state that this dose not appear to be the act of opportunistic burglars but rather a planed out calculated hit by someone that knows about reptiles and was probably a customer who knew the shop lay out.
f you can help phone Sittingbourne Police on 01795 419182 or Kent Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111 quoting crime number CY/000188/11.
A 2nd chance for a near endangered snake
Well the Cyprus Grass Snake may be getting a second change. Snake George presented a petition to the minister calling for immediate government action to save the snake whose numbers have fallen at alarming rates. We have talked about this species before and while the local government always appeared to be on board they never really did anything to stop the hunting and development that were killing off the snakes. Now in front of a European court they are pledging 80,000 for the lake where Snake George says the snake use to be found but is no longer found there. Snake George has also asked for immediate assistance on starting a captive breeding program to ensure the species future. There is no word yet if they do plan to help with the program.
Brown snake bites boy
A boy is recovering today after being bitten by a Brown Snake at home near Sydney Australia. The boy was helping his father move some stuff when he disturbed the snake and was promptly bitten, Doctors say he is lucky that he was not invenomated by the bite.
Sedgwick Co. Zookeeper Injured By Venomous Snake
A Sedgwick County Zoo Amphibian & Reptile keeper was grazed by the strike of a venomous Kanburi pit viper during routine feeding today.
A zoo spokesperson said the snake was being fed with feeding tongs when it grazed the zookeeper’s finger.
The zookeeper was admitted to the hospital for observation. Antivenin went with the keeper as a precaution, but at the time of this report none has been used.
Kanburi pit viper snakes are native to Thailand. Although documented to cause swelling and pain, bites from this species are not known to be life threatening.
Sedgwick County Zoo Amphibian & Reptile keepers perform animal escape drills and venomous snake bite drills regularly.
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Snakes at heart of invasive species debate
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (UPI) — Pet snake owners say the U.S. government’s proposal to ban the importation and interstate transportation of nine species of foreign snakes goes too far.
In seeking the ban, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the animals, if freed, posed a serious risk to native ecosystems across the southern United States, The New York Times reported Monday.
When the government moved to ban trade in the snakes, including boas, anacondas and pythons, it argued they met the legal criteria for being both injurious and invasive.
But it is the first time the government has tried to list animals so widely held as pets by an estimated 1 million Americans.
Trade in these species is big business, bringing in more than $100 million annually, and specimens with rare or unusual colors can fetch as much as $75,000.
“It is a joke,” Jeremy Stone of Linton, Utah, said of the science behind the government’s decision.
Stone, who makes his living breeding snakes with genetic mutations such as albinism that make them attractive to buyers, says his snakes, raised in captivity, pose no threat.
The government regulations, which do not prevent breeding and owning but would prevent transportation across state lines, would ruin his business and thousands like it, he said.
“The reptile industry would suffer a crushing blow, over something that does not make sense,” he said.
Thomas Strickland, assistant secretary for fish and wildlife and parks, said the government would push for approval of the regulations by next summer.
Like other invasive species, snakes are a real and growing problem, he said.
“You are not dealing with hamsters here,” he said. “I was down in the Everglades, and it took four people to hold a 19-foot Burmese python. These things wreak havoc.”