Burmese Pythons Should Not Be Kept As Pets Essay

Burmese Pythons Should Not be Kept as Pets

Did you know that thousands of burmese pythons are thriving in the florida everglades. Burmese pythons should NOT be kept as pets. One, The snakes are destroying the environment. Two, the burmese pythons is not the ideal pet. And Three, The python challenge is a stupid idea.

First of all, The snakes are destroying the ecosystem. According to, Burmese Python Not the Ideal Pet, " With no natural predators, these eating machines appear to be wiping out huge numbers of opossums, raccoons, and bobcats, as well as many bird species." This evidence shows that the pythons are eating and destroying all of these animals leading to early extinction which can affect all of the other species that rely on those animals the pythons are eating. Burmese python Not The Ideal Pet also states, "Tens of thousands of Burmese pythons are estimated to be living in the Everglades" This shows that thousands of snakes living on the everglades are destroying these poor animals that don’t deserve this.

Secondly, Burmese pythons are not the ideal pet.

According to the text, Burmese Python: Not the Ideal Pet, “capable of growing to an astounding length of 23 feet and a weight of up to 200 pounds. " This Information shows that Burmese Pythons are growing too large to like in people’s houses therefore letting them go into the wild which is not good for Florida’s ecosystem. According to the same article it also says,”Unfortunately, many of these owners, upon discovering that they had more snake than they could handle, have resorted to the worst possible solution and released the snakes back into the wild. " This Evidence supports my claim because Florida’s everglades are suffering because the snakes are coming and killing all of these animals. These animals habitat isn’t supposed to see big snakes like this and none of them are ready for a change like

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Lastly, the python challenge is a stupid idea. The reason i say this is because of the blog Burmese Python The ecosystem challenge, “Their appearance in Florida is totally a man-made event, largely the result of the lucrative exotic pet market." this text evidence shows that the pythons being release is totally man made and just killing the snakes wont do anything because they are just going to be released. The blog also states, "We must do a better job of educating people about the effect their careless actions have on ecosystems here in Florida and around the world" This relates to what I said before where I said that people need to stop sending them out into the wild rather than just shooting them and killing them because that is not going to stop the problem.
Burmese pythons should not be kept as pets. This is because The snakes destroy the ecosystem, they should not be kept as pets, and the ecosystem challenge is not a good idea and won't help anything. Because of these snakes they are making other species on the verge of early extinction which can affect all of the animals they eat and all of the animals that eat them.