I have to admit, that, as much as I am not exactly happy they are in the everglades, it is kinda cool to be able to go out and find wild Burmese pythons. But that whole epic is indirectly pet related as well. There are allot of breeders of various things in south Florida, because the climate makes it easier. When I was headed through the homestead area years ago I saw what was reportedly a baboon farm. And there are warehouses of snakes and breeders down there, that is how the Burmese pythons got in there in the first place after hurricane Andrew. And after the storm was gone, and some of the guys were trying to get back to the Miami zoo, and were fielding calls about escaped animals, the answer to most of the calls was, "We don't even have any of those."