I read a little chart on Gus from Rio Bravo Reptiles web page about the odds of certain deaths and it got me thinking. We can't legally keep any snake that can get over 8' and any lizard that can get over 5' plus no venomous animals. More people die from DOG attacks than from captive herps every year. In 2006, there were 25 dog attack related fatalities in the US, how many from captive giant lizards or snakes? Damn few.
Dog related attacks
http://www.dogexpert.com/FatalDogAtt...ogattacks.html
Odds of death(look at last one)
http://www.riobravoreptiles.com/care_fatalities.htm
So there you have it, 1 in 2,681,245 in the USA could die from captive reptiles. If you combined all the deaths related to cats and dogs in the USA, the odds are what? So this makes me wonder, why are giant snakes illegal is some areas where cats and dogs aren't?
Please keep this on topic