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[Jenoch]

66. Pythons are invasive species in Florida.

They are causing big problems in the Everglades. There is no permit or other permission needed to kill the snake. Personally, I think it's pretty cool to have a snake like that around. Of course you need to keep your small dogs and cats indoors. I don't know enough about them to know if they will strike at a person, but I don't think they will. I would either call animal control or get a long rake, pin it's head to the ground and cut its head off with a cleaver. What you don't want to do is to let the thing go and breed to make more non-native snakes.

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I see down thread that it might be a native species of snake in Florida. If that's the case, don't kill it. I don't have an aversion to snakes, however, the only snake species I've ever seen in the wild and handled are garter snakes.