To the editor:
I'm reading about the Oshawa pet bylaw meeting set for Sept. 17. Now Debbie and Doug Grills, who own D and D Exotics pet store, would like to see non-venomous snakes such as boas and pythons permitted, as long as they are under three metres when fully grown. That is a 10-foot snake, enough to strangle a baby, for goodness sake.
What planet do these people come from? In the southern states, just a few weeks ago, this is exactly what happened when a snake got out of its cage and constricted a baby to death who was sleeping in his crib. In Florida, people let their boas loose in the Everglades when they were fed up with their so-called snake hobby and dumped them, hoping the alligators would get them. Guess what; now they have too many snakes and they are trying to catch them before they take over the Everglades.
Remember the snake in the apartment in Toronto a few years ago that they tried to find? I remember riding my bike down the bike path in Oshawa and this person with no shirt on carrying his huge snake around his neck. It was a long, fat python. I hope that all snakes and lizards and tarantulas will be banned and these pet "lovers" will come to their senses before we have an epidemic that we cannot control, and it will be too late to do anything about it.
Snakes and these so-called pets belong in the wild.
Herman van der Veen
Hamilton Township
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