are ball pythons dangerous to children.

[allyfair]

my sons mother is finding it difficult to understand that ball pythons do not pose the same kind of danger towards children that a burmese or reticulated python would.

just looking for some comments from others who have raised children around ball pythons and some other info which mite help ease her mind on the topic.

all replies will b greatly appreciated.

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1.1 yellow belly royal python (osiris & isis)
0.1 pastel royal python (artemis)
1.1 hermans tortoise (dylan & gilmour)

[Maverick67]

My 3 year old is in love with mine. all the other kids in the yard are always petting her and holding her when i bring her out to. Its great

[allyfair]

one problem she has is that she thinks that if it escapes it will attack and kill my son. are these fears justified or not, i believe they would rather curl up in some corner and wouldn't go near him but am open to any other theorys or advice.

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1.1 yellow belly royal python (osiris & isis)
0.1 pastel royal python (artemis)
1.1 hermans tortoise (dylan & gilmour)

[BLMinFL]

one problem she has is that she thinks that if it escapes it will attack and kill my son. are these fears justified or not, i believe they would rather curl up in some corner and wouldn't go near him but am open to any other theorys or advice.

Tell her that a ball python is not a burmese. From the sounds of it, she is freaked because of what happened to the 2 year old little girl down here who was killed by a burmese. What the news stories don't say is that the snake was not in a secured tank and had not been fed in over 2 months as per my source at the local police department here. Here are the links to the story, the second one has a picture of the snake and you can tell its a little on the thin side. the parents are now being charged with first degree manslaughter according to my source.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...by.html?cat=53

http://stupidcelebrities.net/2009/07...a-hare-photos/

[glk832]

Tell her that a ball python is not a burmese. From the sounds of it, she is freaked because of what happened to the 2 year old little girl down here who was killed by a burmese. What the news stories don't say is that the snake was not in a secured tank and had not been fed in over 2 months as per my source at the local police department here. Here are the links to the story, the second one has a picture of the snake and you can tell its a little on the thin side. the parents are now being charged with first degree manslaughter according to my source.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...by.html?cat=53

http://stupidcelebrities.net/2009/07...a-hare-photos/

Man that snake was very skinny.... any animal can be dangerous when owned by and irresponsible Human..... Tell be this all the time about my pitbulls

[BLMinFL]

Man that snake was very skinny.... any animal can be dangerous when owned by and irresponsible Human..... Tell be this all the time about my pitbulls

you hit it right on the nose...it boils down to irresponsible humans. our first snake was Jax and its my boyfriends 7 year old son's snake. he got it because here in florida, he wanted his son to be educated about snakes (since there are many in the wild) and what ones he could and could not touch. On a further note, my boyfriend's ex is a social worker and has no problem with her son holding snakes at all.

[BrianaK]

one problem she has is that she thinks that if it escapes it will attack and kill my son.

I've left the tops of my cages off many times to come back to the snakes curled up under there hides sleeping. But you can buy cage clips to hold the tops on anyways.

[Kyle@theHeathertoft]

I've left the tops of my cages off many times to come back to the snakes curled up under there hides sleeping. But you can buy cage clips to hold the tops on anyways.

Actually with children involved I'd recommend cage locks...for the safety of the snake, so the kids don't handle it without supervision. Safer for the snake!

[jfreels]

I know he's not full grown but......

[Maverick67]

What reason would a ball python have to kill a sleeping kid. even an awake one. They can't eat it and they don't kill in defense. worst would be a bite witch is no big deal. it might startle the kid and hurt a little.