the snake underworld show

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Originally Posted by Homegrownscales

I think it's irresponsible they blurred the illegal hot owner when he should thoroughly have the animals taken from him. Why help him keep breaking the law?

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Especially when there are plenty of legal, responsible owners out there with hots they could interview instead...

Oh yes absolutely !!!

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Originally Posted by Homegrownscales

Although I was happy to see them talk about some of the restrictions of owning hot snakes and the people as weird as they might be doing it the right way.

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I find it ironic that people in this hobby hate when people call them weirdos for keeping snakes, and yet within the hobby, quite often, those same people have that same attitude toward those of us who keep hots...

Personally I was saying the people they featured were a little whacky. That wasn't a general assumption of people who keep hots in general. Keeping hots or not the guy who had fangs glued on his teeth was overall interesting. But that was my take on him. I'm sure there are Many many normal hot keepers that don't have fangs glued into their heads. The other guy who was injecting mamba venom... Well I don't think just anyone should be doing that but... That makes him a special person in my eyes too.

Weird or a little kooky in my eyes is also not a bad thing. Those are not judgments it just makes them different. I guess I should make that clear as well

I'm watching this as I'm typing. So far, it's a pretty good show, except that they keep showing the wrong species of snake. They were talking about venomous reptiles and showed a GTP, two ball pythons and a boa before they started showing vipers and cobras. And then they were talking about Burms and kept showing shots of ball pythons and retics. Aaaand they keep showing green mambas when talking about black mambas. But as for the actual facts, it's really good.

And yeah, I'm kinda miffed about that hot poacher too. I understand interviewing someone who's done it is the best way to get insight on it, but they should have interviewed someone in jail who was arrested for it or something.

ok so i got a chance to watch the whole thing this time and i'm sorely disappointed that the show DID infact end up dissing the snake keeping hobby. i noticed henry kept contradicting himself from one sentence to the next.
ok and here's my take on the guy injecting himself with snake venom...
if he's only giving himself a non fatal dose it will not stop him from dying if he gets tagged by that snake and you KNOW that snake is gonna unload everything its got on him. of course he's surviving the injections...they're CONTROLLED doses...no snake is gonna give him that courtesy!
but henry was right on one thing with that situation when he said "this guy is the poster boy for DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!"
OH! and the one guy that drives the hearse...if his neighbors didnt know about his venomous snakes...they do now.
ok i'm done ranting...well, no actually i'm not, but i'm gonna stop myself anyways.

ok looking back at my post this comment

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this guy is the poster boy for DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!

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can be misunderstood...
i did not mean for it to come out as offensive as it did even though i was only repeating what someone else said.

anthonym - i do not think the keepers of hots, including yourself, are weird or anything like that. it's not my place to label someone something like that because of what they choose to own. i just dont like seeing things like self envenomation put into a "look what i can do!" context.
the guy doing it was saying that no one other then his closest family members and friends know about it and that he didnt want alot of people knowing about it so he wouldnt have to deal with hearing everyone tell him he's crazy and all that, ok fine then why go on national tv and SHOW what he's doing?
i dunno, whatever.
to each his own right?

After finishing it, yeah, I was a little disappointed. It started out great, but before long they just started talking about what can kill you. Though I was really happy when the vet said the giant pythons only kill people when people do stupid things and then the snakes get blamed for it.

Also kinda sick of all the captive herp shows talking primarily about hots. I mean no offense to the hot keepers out there, and I know the public is only interested in extremes, but hots are such a minority in the industry.

When I take my film classes, I swear.

Has anyone found anything other than clips online? I'm feeling left out and I don't have Nat Geo Wild...