What the Heck is Up With "Fatal Attractions" On Animal Planet?

[Bellabob]

Its like almost every episode is dedicated to snakes, or some type of reptile. I saw 2 the other day. One was about a girl who liked snakes. Especially venomous ones. She FREE HANDLED them every day. Then she eventually got bit by her Gaboon Viper (beautiful snakes) and died. When they found her body, the police killed ALL OF HER SNAKES, to be able to "match" the fangs with the bite marks. This especially pissed me off. I'm sure they could test the blood to see which snake bit her. Even if they couldn't test the blood, does that really give them an excuse to kill ALL of her snakes just to find the ONE SNAKE that bit her? It just seems that they wanted an exuse to kill all of them.

Then theres the one where a guy is strangled by his Burmese Python. The whole time it was about how "deadly" they were. But luckily at the end they actually mentioned that he was high, drunk, and stupid while handling the snake. He was also trying to be cool showing off his gaint snake to his girl.

I don't see any episodes about "deadly" dogs. Dogs kill more people a year than snakes, so why not show an episode about a dealdy dog hmm? Oh, yea, thats right, dogs are cute and furry, so that makes them compltely harmless right?

I though animal planet was supposed to give a good name to animals, not advocate fear and hatred towards them.

[LOSTCOAST_BALLZ]

There was one with wolves. I think that show is awesome. anyone who freehandles venomous snakes or lives with free roaming monitors deserves to be on there. thats insane. those people think there vipers or nile moniters love them haha well history shows thats not the case. HUGE FAN OF FATAL ATTRACTIONS, I will agree at times it is a lil bias or portrays snakes negatively. but u cant argue that those people are crazy, especially the bear lady hahaha wow.

[Valentine Pirate]

I think Bellabob was trying to say that the show portrays these poor decisions as if it's the animal's fault for being handled or cared for poorly. Yes, those people deserve to be humiliated, but I wish that Animal Planet would mention that there are thousands of responsible animal handlers/owners out there who look down on risky husbandry practices

[mpkeelee]

i watch that show all the time and they talk about how people make bad decisions which lead to their death. like that chick with the gaboon viper, she got bit by her rattlesnake but it was a dry bite so she thought she was immune to their venom because she thought they had some special relationship. people on there with per bulls who get trampled and killed. a guy who went into his burmese pythons enclosure to cuddle with it and it killed him. they said the guy didnt feed it or take very good care of it and thoughts what caused it. or the old lady who had wild bears as pets but would go outside and hang out with them and feed them until they dragged her away and ate her. animal planet doesnt have many good shows but fatal attractions doesnt make only the animals look bad, they talk about how stupid people are too.

[LOSTCOAST_BALLZ]

i watch that show all the time and they talk about how people make bad decisions which lead to their death. like that chick with the gaboon viper, she got bit by her rattlesnake but it was a dry bite so she thought she was immune to their venom because she thought they had some special relationship. people on there with per bulls who get trampled and killed. a guy who went into his burmese pythons enclosure to cuddle with it and it killed him. they said the guy didnt feed it or take very good care of it and thoughts what caused it. or the old lady who had wild bears as pets but would go outside and hang out with them and feed them until they dragged her away and ate her. animal planet doesnt have many good shows but fatal attractions doesnt make only the animals look bad, they talk about how stupid people are too.

my thoughts exactly. I love the show, they mainly focus on the peoples ignorance or misbeliefs. I like how they have friends and families describe there friedns mishaps comedy. the wolf lady was insane though and that WHITE indian dude hahaha he was awesome like wlaking bear or somthing that guy was a kook and even he said his friend was nuts. she wanted to "walk amoung the wolves" well she did and now shes dead, these animals have insticts that cannot be curved. O AND THE ORANGATANG (spelling) dude that one was hectic the phone call was all he is eating my friends face POOR lady she thought it was her kid. i understand how people get wrapped up in this but animals are well animals. kind of a tangent sorry i just get pumped talkin about this show. and im mad i missed the burmese python one that sounds like a good one hahaha!

[Hypancistrus]

Animal Planet was infiltrated by humaniacs a long time ago. It shows in their programming-- all of their programming with the exception of a few shows like Dogs 101 is geared towards highlighting the negatives of the human-animal bond with very little effort towards showing the positives.

[anthonym]

My hots all love me and roam freely in my bedroom and spoon with me at night!

[fndjason4]

Animal Planet just isnt the same without Steve Irwin!

[chris4554]

My hots all love me and roam freely in my bedroom and spoon with me at night!

lol ^ I'll have to tell Animal Planet to keep an eye on you maybe you can make it on tv!

[Mephys]

I love that show personnally and I agree it shows the bad decisions people made and the stupid things they did that got them killed and all that, but I agree they should also have a part that shows that when those animals are handled appropriatly by responsible owners those situations can be avoided.

One episode showed a lady with big cats ( I don't remember if it was tigers or lions) and she did get killed by them, only to find out she didn't have the money to feed them anymore and was looking around for roadkills and stuff to feed them. The poor animals were emaciated and starving. If that lady had been responsible and really cared for her animals she would have surrendered them to a zoo or something where they could be taken care off.