As boas and pythons eat their way through the Everglades, their next target will be the nearby neighborhoods and people’s pets. Pray it’s not someone’s child. But it’s already happened. A pet python has killed a two-year-old.
Before it happens in someone’s back yard, now is the time to act before they spread. The best way to get rid of a non-native species is with another that hunts them for food.
There are places in Florida and the South that are run over with an animal that loves to eat eggs and snakes – the wild hog. I’ve personally watched hogs go after a very large rattlesnake. After killing it, the hogs fought over the meal.
Large wild hogs can be trapped and made infertile, then released in the snake-infested area, where they will smell out the eggs and eat most of the snakes they come across. Not only killing off the snakes, it will thin out hogs where they cause problems, and it will cost less than it does for experts to study the problem.
A few more mild winters like we’ve had so far, and there is no telling how much farther north they will be able to come.
Robert Barnes
Dothan
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