Comment on FR Doc # 2010-16068

I agree in part that there should be some regulation in areas these animals could cause problems but banning them all together is not the answer! I just moved from Florida and see the problems the Burmise and African Rock pythons cause. The Nile Monitors and even the Brown Anole and Cuban Tree Frog are far feircer competetors than the large snakes. The Green Anole has been pushed to extinction by the Brown Anole in some areas. Feral dogs, cats and hogs do imesurable damage to the natural ecosystems thousand times grater than the snakes you prapose to ban. I would rather see dogs and cats banned along with the importation of goods from forign countrys. That would actualy make a huge dent in the environmental impact and have a much grater impact on human injuries as a result of animal attacks! I belive if you Start a nation wide ban with the large constrictors it leaves presidence for the rest of the reptile and amphibian trade to be targeted and it will cause a black market boom in these and other animals. This intern could directly affect threatened, protected and endangered species world wide and cause the criminal element to go for other species. This could also couse individules to supliment the exotics with our native species with would again harm our ecosystem Please reconcider this issue It would be more prudent to require lisencing and and regulations wich prohibit un experienced individules from keeping these animals along with registration and record keeping to track breeders and retailers. There could also be a requirement for microchiping aswell. If you do go thrue with the ban I do strongly recoment removing the Boa Constrictor. There are some subspecies that are quite likely extinct in the wild and only survive in the care of dedicated keepers and breeders. Even though the trend has gone twards mutations there are responsible individules like my self who are striving to keep these rare and beutiful snakes alive.