In before the pictures of wallets and hat bands.
What could possibly go wrong?
It’s snake season. I killed on just yesterday. Last summer, it was one every other day or so.
When CT went fear-berserk and annihilated their native rattler population, Lyme was endemic to just that area.
With no more snakes, the Lyme vectors flourished.
Now, we have Lyme *everywhere*.
How’d that work out for us?
1) It is foolish to introduce/reintroduce dangerous animals to an area where they have never been, or have been and have died off.
2) 1,000,000 rattle snakes aren’t worth 1 human life.
3) If you want to control rodents, there are numerous non-venomous snakes you could introduce.
4) I’m way past sick of “scientists” playing God. If God wanted Timber Rattlers on that island, He’d have put them there.
The wigglin’ rattlers are up here. Ya gotta be on the look out for ‘em when outside at all times now.
Perhaps a better location would be Back Bay.
Mass hole government program? What ever could go wrong, old sport?
Prolly taste like chicken.
If you don’t have rattlers in Massachusetts just what the heck do you use for chili meat?
Q from a Texan....
Some kid or fisherman will get bitten even though they said before there's no record of anyone getting bitten. I don't believe it. There is a reason they have been killed off. Good riddance.
Hawks, eagles, falcons, owls and other predators can control the rodent population quite nicely if they would introduce those instead.
Why don’t they introduce them in an area far, far away from people? When the first child is hurt by one of these, I hope the State is sued into oblivion.
“Go the other way, snakes do not attack people, that’s all a myth,” said Perrotti.
I stopped reading there.... I have personally had water mocassins see me from the other side of a creek then swim across to pursue me....there are some very agressive snakes.
That stated, most try to avoid people....even large timber rattlers.....
But why bring in any poisonous snakes? Get rid of all of them.....help populate with rat snakes if there is a rodent problem....
Brazil’s Ilha da Queimada Grande, has some of the most venomous snakes in the world and is called the most dangerous place in Brazil. I’m not fond of snakes but if you want to keep then, you can keep them on an island away from me. Our relatives in Thailand like to have some around to clear the rice fields of rats. However many times I see them, practicularly the Cobras, the chills go up my spine.
rodent control?
(at the closing:) “Economics of Damage and Control .....It is very doubtful that snakes have much effect on the density of rodents”
http://icwdm.org/handbook/reptiles/RattleSnakes.asp
what is more likely to happen is that deer and other wildlife are going to be bitten in the legs and face and die
if rattlers migrate into settled areas, then livestock, dogs and cats are endangered.
to me, rattlers are the same as gophers and cockroaches - best dead on sight, having outlived their evolutionary tree
We have plenty of coyotes hunting rodents. Coyotes are an invasive species. Why add to that? Rattlesnakes will stop lyme disease? I don't think snakes are going to eat ticks. These "scientists" are more interest in returning the Earth to non human life than science.
“snakes do not attack people, that’s all a myth,” said Perrotti.”
Wrong. Maybe Perrotti has never been in contact with a cottonmouth?
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“Nowhere else in New England I can imagine is a better place to try this experiment,” said Tom Tyning.
I think your backyard would be better, Tom.
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