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[OzDAZ]

Yep I saw that on the news. Poor things, they looked albino, and the fact that 2 juvi Rattle snakes were wrapped around a VHS video tape and stuck into a post pack, I’m amazed either survived, but the survivor was a beauty wasn't it... It’s so sad that it has to be destroyed.
It was sent from Amsterdam, Holland.
Was it an Albino or do they just look that color at birth : :
I agree with our laws on exotics but that incident shows that the law isn’t in anyway a deterrent if you really want to import snakes on the sly, not even the health and safety of the snake they covet so much as to risk the penalties you can incur seem to matter to smugglers.
It’s hard for me to understand someone wanting an animal so much there prepared to risk killing it in the process of acquiring it.
At a guess Id say the mortality rate would be over 50% maybe much higher. I can’t see any animal lover smuggling snakes or reptiles, If you love the type of reptile so much that you will risk fines or JAIL, how on earth can you justify endangering its life.
It has to be profiteers no-one who loves animals would wrap 2 snakes round a video tape and stick it in the mailbox.

OZ