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by tigers9 on July 12, 2009
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Python Attacks And Hysterical Politicians.
Posted on July 12th, 2009
by REXANO in All News
REXANO, www.REXANO.org Editorial By Zuzana Kukol
Every time there is a tragic or unusual accident, the media gets into heated hysteria to milk the story. Meanwhile uninformed legislators are happy to appease many special interest groups by proposing to pass feel-good bans, based on pure emotion and hysteria, instead of science and facts, mostly resulting in the waste of tax payers’ money and not increasing public safety .
These Neanderthals especially love the fatal exotic animal mauling accidents, with python attacks being some of their favorite lately.
Over one week ago, one kid in Florida was killed by a pet python, which was kept illegally. Just few days earlier in June, two kids were killed by dogs, one in Illinois and one in Texas. Numerous other children died in car or swimming pool accidents, yet, their story is not turning into hysterical circus. Dead is dead, why does it matter how the kid died? The family misses them no matter how they died, so why is one killed by python getting more public sympathy?
The reason is simple: private owners of captive exotic animals have been coming under ever increasing attacks from the media bandwagon, mostly fueled by the agenda of the AR (animal rights) activists groups. These organizations, under the guise of pretending to care for public safety, hide their real agenda: to end the captive keeping of all animals.
The best method of discrediting the claim that captive reptiles are a public safety issue, and to show no need for additional regulation is to look at the real numbers. Facts don’t lie.
Since 1990, captive non-venomous (constrictor) snakes in the USA killed 0.47 people per year (9 killed in the last 19 years, all of them owners, handlers, keepers, family, NOT the general public).
Three of the deaths caused by large constrictors occurred to the children of the snake owners, at their own home. That is 0.15 kid killed per year by captive constrictor in the USA since 1990. In the older cases, the parents were charged with child endangerment, some also with reckless endangerment and involuntary manslaughter.
It doesn’t matter if the child died as a result of an animal attack or by other everyday activity, like drowning in the pool. The parents are responsible for their children and other responsible legal owners of exotics should not be punished with unfair bans, because of parental mistakes of others, who just happened to be fellow exotic animal owners.
None of these deaths were the result of the snakes being unsupervised off the private owners’ property. Instead, all victims were voluntarily on the property where the animal was kept, be it owner(s) or family members. Captive keeping of exotic animals might be a slight voluntarily accepted hobby/occupational hazard, but it is NOT a public safety issue.
It never ceases to surprise me how people fear exotic animals, and react to their fear of the unknown with hysteria, instead of educating themselves. In comparison, 45,343 people died in 2005 in traffic accidents, 48 by lightning, 1,690 by falling down the stairs and 16,692 by murder or involuntary manslaughter.
For more etailed info see the 1990-2008 statistical tables on human fatalities caused by captive constrictors in PDF format.
http://www.rexano.org/Statistics/Constrictor_Captive_Snake_Fatality.pdf
Copyright © REXANO 2009
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by pitbulllady on July 12, 2009
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Again, while I totally agree with the fact that the legislators are a group totally driven by media hysteria, who feed off the current public need for govenment protection in exchange for personal freedom and rights, I still have to take exception to the statement that the recent dog-related deaths have not sparked a media frenzy. Au contrare; the two incidents in TX alone were covered by no less than 485 media outlets WORLDWIDE, because they involved dogs that someone could call "pit bulls", and there is a group calling for a NATIONAL ban, at the Federal level, on any and all short-haired, muscular dogs. Every DAY some city, county or small town across the US enacts BSL, laws passed for the exact same reason as these exotic bans, against DOGS. Dogs ARE under attack, in the media and by politicians, and more places ban DOGS now than ban exotics, if those dogs happen to weigh between 20-200 pounds, have short hair, a muscular build and a broad head, or have thick fur and a bushy tail and stand-up ears. It serves no useful purpose to lament that dog attacks don't generate the fear, hate, and media/political frenzy that "exotic" attacks or incidents do, because that just is not the case, and it does not help any of us who are battling the same enemy.
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by tigers9 on July 12, 2009
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pitbulllady, python attack attracted media in thousands of sources, dog attack under 100, I already own BSL (breed specific legisalation dogs) , 12 of them dobermans and wolf hybrids, 80% preowned, re-homed (scamstuaries would call them rescues), and in the future I have plans to adopt pit bull from shelter, , TRUST me, nothing compares to tiger or python attack hysteria. mI have NO agenda against dogs or exotics, i just see rhe facst. big exotics are more discriminated against than pitts.
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by tigers9 on July 12, 2009
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I meant to say dog attacks attracted media in hundreds, not under 100 sources in US, as opposed to thousands worldwide in python stuff, US fatal dog attacks did NOT make it wroldwode like python did, exotics sell. humans or aniamls,put a word exotic in it and it sells papers:(
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by CSdeadboy2009 on July 13, 2009
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Yeah, what pit bull lady sed. Also, I have to disagree with you about the legislative attack on dogs. Sure, a big Python killing its owner makes the news world wide when it happens, and Pit bulls may not, But I will also say this as a guy who has lived in one town in three county's and who go's the town hall meetings and City council meetings that NOTHING (except gun control) comes up more then Pit Bull's when it comes to BSL and what Animals should and should not be owned. As I sed before, When folks hear I have a rattle snake they say "oooh can I see it?" when they find out that I am also a Pit owner, they have a hard time coming to the house. And as far as Tigers go, I don't know what to say. You cant keep it in a glass box, and to keep one in the back yard seems cruel, so maybe they should be subject to zoning laws like horses ? Still, I have not heard of a tiger attack in this country since the magic guy got bit. Still, When the retards in Austin this last time they were not voting on banning hots,big constrictors, or tigers, It was to make BSL legal in Texas, and aimed DIRECTLY at Pit Bulls and there owners. You see, they can get favor from protective moms and such.
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by tigers9 on July 13, 2009
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CSdeadboy2009, BSL (breed specific legislation) laws are pretty much limited to some cities and counties, so you can move few miles and be fine.
I dare you to name one state where pit bulls are banned statewide from ownership, and I dare you to name one federal law affecting pitts ownership.
Many exotics animals are already banned in many states, and few federal laws affect interstate movement of exotics, once the law/ban is federal, you can not just move few miles and still keep your animals.
We r now dealing with many federal bills affecting reptile ownership, but name me one federal law affecting BSL dogs.
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by pitbulllady on July 13, 2009
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The entire STATE of Ohio classifies ALL "pit bulls" as "vicious" dogs, regardless of any past behavior, and under STATE law, all vicious dogs are BANNED. Ontario, Canada, also bans "pit bulls", and animal control and law enforcement in that province(which is analagous to a US state)actually do go out hunting down people who have dogs that look as though they might have "pit bull" in them, so they can KILL the dogs and arrest the owners. There are several countries, world-wide, that ban these dogs, the most notorious of which is Great Britain, with its insidious "Dangerous Dogs Act". Several states have had bills, at the state level, to ban "pit bulls" and several other breeds of dogs, and many of these bills narrowly avoided passage. In Oregon and New Mexico, bills made it all the way to the floor of those state's House or Senate before being killed or sent back to committee, which effectively killed them, but BSL proponents are stepping up efforts in each and every state to implement statewide bans on several different kinds of dogs. Each time one of these incidents makes headline news all over the world, it gives fuel to their efforts. Now, there is a push to ban them NATIONWIDE, at the Federal level, not just at the state or local levels, and it's only a matter of time before a bill is drafted and entered and gains sponsors, not the least of which will be the HSUS and PETA. There already is a ban on interstate transport of dogs "intended for fighting", and already several people who WERE NOT DOG-FIGHTERS, but who were traveling to attend dog shows and weight-pull competitions, have been arrested, had their dogs confiscated and killed, and their reputations torn down, all because someone reported people traveling with "pit bulls" to the authorities. The general consensus among animal control and law enforcement is, if a person is traveling with more than one dog that is identified as a "pit bull" or "pit bull TYPE", they're "intending" to fight the dogs! By the time the case goes to trial, and it can be proven that these were not fighting dogs, the dogs are already dead.
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by tigers9 on July 13, 2009
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I am now talking about USA, I know in other countries many breeds and species are banned as pets, and in some countries humans dont have many rights either.
Pitts are not banned in Ohio, you can own them if you have liability insurance, which like for big exotics, is not cheap, so it elimintes some peopel who can not afford the insurance (which is unfair, any dog can bite.
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by CSdeadboy2009 on July 13, 2009
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You can own them with insurance. I can not afford the insurance, so I live ware I do. Now as far as Tigers go, in Channel View Texas there is a guy who is legally allowed to keep a Tiger. He lives on 1/4 acre in a residential area surrounded by factories. He should be banned from keeping tigers, and should be charged with animal cruelty . In my opinion, you should not be able to keep huge predators in town, and that cat cant be happy ware its at. The country yes town no. Now for snakes. 99% of the folks who keep big constrictors and King Cobras are responsible keepers who house there pets in clean secure enclosures. There animals rarely escape and I am positive there hots DONT escape. So if you think about it, Herp keepers really don't have much to worry about. We are lucky because most of the folks who speak to the public are smart and decent looking guys and gals. Pit owners on the other hand has the vato's and home boys as the go to guys for the media. Pit's are in the cross hairs 24-7.
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by pictigaster1 on July 13, 2009
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A recent job at a state reprasentives revealed next to his fire place a pr of golden eyelash vipers he is not only for us he is one of us.He has been directly involved in the permit system here in texas.We need more just like him .
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