ELECTRIC FENCE IN THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES

Dear Barry, I will have nightmares all night for maybe a week (?) because of your pretty pictures, you %($#!@#!!! you. Sincerely, your friend Aqua Surf.

LOL...Sorry!

All is forgiven!

Whew...thank you!

The stupid people who introduced this to the Everyglades should face criminal penalities including huge fines and jail time.

Aww poor thing. Did it die?
Hey, he's gotta eat too : )

I've seen pics of a python that died trying to eat a gator. My bro worked for a nuculear plant down there, ans saw many pics in the Tampa area papers of huge 24 footers caught crossing roads.Don't wanna meet one of those for sure.

Thank you so much for the visual aid. Now I can once again experience the nightmares I've always had about snakes (and alligators, believe it or not) that I once thought I had gotten over. Yuck.

WOW is an understatement.......and it looks like this guy has something extrememly LARGE in his belly.......OMG I have watched documentaries about this....but this is
..................like you said Queen....WOW!!!!!

Holy Crap that is a big one!

That's one good sized snake.

This is one of the most horrifying things I've ever saw! I hope they killed it and sold its skin for money!! Whoooh!!..

I hate snakes......

WOW is right....I live 5 miles from the Everglades!!!!!

I know you're watchful living that close ,but be wary of these things ,they get dumped by irresponsible owners ,and thrive ,and BREED there .The articulated python is the most dangerous ,as they have no fear of humans.

I've never seen one, but every now and then the news reports these creatures showing up in their yards....very scary...

It is, and that's a good breeding ground for them ,and they don't have any predators.

Guess he got the shock of his life there, didn't he? Now that is one BIG, BAD, UGLY snake!

Holy freakin' crap. We need those on our Southern borders!

Yikes!!

Cripe!

what a cool animal :D

I have never see red soil like this in Florida either...

Then you must stick to the highway and never get off on the rural graded roads.

Why the heck would anybody be raising sheep in the Everglades in the first place? How ridiculous!

http://msasheep.blogspot.com/

http://www.fairmeadowsheepfar...

So why wouldn't there be sheep near the Everglades?

right next to the sugar cane fields. Some people like an occasional leg of lamb, others like wool coats. i could take you straight to at least 8 farms that have them in the area around Immokalee and Clewiston

Wool coats go over great in the Florida humidity.. yeah right. As for leg of lamb, lamb is not a high demand meat, and you may be able to show me people who have a few sheep so they can get an agricultural exemption, but they are not commercially raised there, and the soil is not orange or red there either.

There is some demand from Island folks, Africans, and other immigrants for lamb and sheep, but the demand is not especially high. My guess is that sheep in Florida would be raised farther north, not in the Everglades or even around the Okeechobee region except as an adjunct to cattle raising.

a guess means you have a 90-10 chance of being wrong, and since I have hauled materials to 2 of the farms on my semi, I would put the odds at 100% chance of being wrong.

Let me guess- you think your clothes all come from the factory right up the street from you, and all your food comes from that farm just south of Brunswick? there is a new invention called th internal combustion engine, and it lets people move raw products all over the planet to be processed and manufactured far from the source of origination. Not much demand for Wool coats in the Texas Hill country were 50% of the nations wool is produced either, but there is a big area that mohair keeps employed- and most of the people don't own a thing of wool

Al Gore says the internal combustion engine is destroying the planet and must be outlawed!

Al Who? you mean the bag of wind that flies around the world on private jets to tell us we must walk?

Boys and girls this is why Hawaii is very restrictive of ever letting a snake or other critters into this environment where they can thrive.

Awesome

Jeepers creepers! If I ever saw that I'd be in the next county before you could say "jack robinson"!

Put a bounty on Pythons. $1000 a head.

A reality show would be created instantly.

Without help, if a python bites you, because of the configuration of its teeth, pointing back towards its mouth, the more a person or animal struggles, the more the teeth trap whatever it bites.
Creds to this farmer who was smart enough to protect his sheep with this fence.
These snakes are not indigenous and, especially the reticulated pythons, are very dangerous.
Shame on the people who, when the snake got too big to be handled at their homes, let these predators into the Everglades. Very irresponsible! This is why law after law has to be passed because of the few who create a problem.

They're not only found in the Everglades...they are found in neighborhoods, under peoples homes, and all over south Florida...It IS because of the irresponsible pet owner..Shame on them

They're starting to move north also. If the weather continues to be warmer than usual, their territory will increase. For this reason alone, I hope we go into a mini ice age like some scientists have predicted. People and animals can live through them. Pythons could not. And isn't there some kind of African species that's been put in the Everglades too, that scientists are afraid will mate with the python and create a super snake? Ugh!!!