Ball Python bites 4-year-old girl

What are your thoughts on this article?

http://www.wfmz.com/news/Regional-Po...tml?hpt=us_bn7

Seriously that article just pissed me off! Its the owners fault for not.supervising the 4yr old holding the snake! They cut the snakes freaking head! These are the kind of irresponsible owners that ruin our hobby :(

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"cutting the pythons neck"? God. Poor snake.

Okay everyone, I want us all to practice for the first time a ball python latches and wraps. Grab a pencil. Ready? Okay! Go! Stick it between the ball python's jaws. Don't jab him, just put it in his teeth the way you do with a Q-tip to check his mouth. HE'LL LET GO. IMMEDIATELY. PROBLEM SOLVED. PUT HIM BACK IN HIS TUB, QUICK, AND PLEASE FEED HIM.

(If you've never done a mouth check with Q-tip, now is a good time to practice that.)

The mother commented on the comments for this so I asked why she took the child to the hospital and more-so why was an x-ray taken. I'll post here if she responds.

Can we go cut the necks of the parents?

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Originally Posted by loonunit

"cutting the pythons neck"? God. Poor snake.

Okay everyone, I want us all to practice for the first time a ball python latches and wraps. Grab a pencil. Ready? Okay! Go! Stick it between the ball python's jaws. Don't jab him, just put it in his teeth the way you do with a Q-tip to check his mouth. HE'LL LET GO. IMMEDIATELY. PROBLEM SOLVED. PUT HIM BACK IN HIS TUB, QUICK, AND PLEASE FEED HIM.

(If you've never done a mouth check with Q-tip, now is a good time to practice that.)

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Actual photo of the Killer Beep in question:

http://file.walagata.com/w/the-salamander/bpfangs.jpg

The parents are morons.

I pity the children.

I saw this and I posted a comment. It was very sad that the snake had to die that way. This is why I NEVER let anyone near or touch my snakes. I will do whatever I have to keep my snakes safe and stress free.

That may well have been the most retarded thing I've ever read.

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Killing the snake was an insane reaction from the parents. A child getting a few pin-pricks should not result in a death sentence for the animal that did it. This was their own fault and completely avoidable. Unsupervised animal/child interactions simply shouldn't be allowed at all until the child in question is mature enough to understand how to behave appropriately around the animal. No matter how much you can trust the animal with yourself, you can't trust a 4 year old not to get excited and/or randomly do something crazy to set the animal off, plus of course any animal can also just plain have a bad day.

I have no doubt that the other snakes will be better off in new homes, but I bet the kids are going to be pretty unhappy at losing all the family pets, and they probably won't really understand the situation.

As far as the X-ray thing goes, I imagine that was done in order to placate the presumably hysterical parents. I rather doubt the doctor who ordered it actually believed it was necessary - it was probably the least costly test s/he could run that s/he felt would be "enough" to satisfy the parents that everything was being done for their daughter.

Ughh stupid stupid people. Im so happy they are getting rid of their other snakes! If they panicked and killed it over that then they don't know enough to take proper care of the animals any ways! That's the equivalent of putting a tournique on your neck for a razor nic while shaving. If Stupid people weren't allowed to reproduce things like this wouldn't happen.
Wow sorry. Just read that. Guess I'm feeling a little mean today.