Question about the new possible boa constrictor ban

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Originally Posted by ispitroseas

I can totally understand getting permits to stop irresponsible ownership, but it floors me how ignorant a lot of these anti-snake people are. Shortly after I got my boa I was linked to an article about how large constrictors will kill you, your children, then take over the world. To my knowledge a lot more people die from dog attacks...

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That's exactly how I feel. People just don't give snakes a chance. Anyone see that video about the dog attacking a kid and the cat saved the kid? The kid had to get stitches and if it weren't for the cat it would of been worse. Everyone talked about it for a week saying, oh that's why you don't leave dogs unattended. But if that was a snake, specifically a large python, attacking a kid media would blow up. Nearly 4.5 million people are subject to dog bites yearly with 1 and 5 serious enough to have the person seek medical help and in 2012, 27,000 people had to get reconstructive surgery because of dog bites. Since 2000 there has been about 240-250+ people killed by dogs. And how many have snakes killed, specifically large pythons? About 4-5 in freak scenarios. People need to overcome their fear, since fear in this situation is just pure ignorance and learn that 99% of snakes have no desire to attack or kill you.


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Originally Posted by colton62

That's exactly how I feel. People just don't give snakes a chance. Anyone see that video about the dog attacking a kid and the cat saved the kid? The kid had to get stitches and if it weren't for the cat it would of been worse. Everyone talked about it for a week saying, oh that's why you don't leave dogs unattended. But if that was a snake, specifically a large python, attacking a kid media would blow up. Nearly 4.5 million people are subject to dog bites yearly with 1 and 5 serious enough to have the person seek medical help and in 2012, 27,000 people had to get reconstructive surgery because of dog bites. Since 2000 there has been about 240-250+ people killed by dogs. And how many have snakes killed, specifically large pythons? About 4-5 in freak scenarios. People need to overcome their fear, since fear in this situation is just pure ignorance and learn that 99% of snakes have no desire to attack or kill you.


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Exactly. It makes me very upset that people can't see past their ugly, learned, biases. I mean, have you seen the USHS "large, deadly constrictors" page? It's awful. And given the figures they provided ants kill more people in a year than these snakes have in decades.
And I bet if dog laws were even close to snake laws people would pitch a fit

Cause every family owns a dog. If you couldn't travel state lines with a dog and had to be licensed to buy one. People would go crazy in uproar.


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Originally Posted by colton62

Cause every family owns a dog. If you couldn't travel state lines with a dog and had to be licensed to buy one. People would go crazy in uproar.


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You know, only the LARGE and DANGEROUS dogs. The ones people just let roam free because they didn't have the proper space requirements

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Originally Posted by ispitroseas

I can totally understand getting permits to stop irresponsible ownership, but it floors me how ignorant a lot of these anti-snake people are. Shortly after I got my boa I was linked to an article about how large constrictors will kill you, your children, then take over the world. To my knowledge a lot more people die from dog attacks...

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When I got my ball pythons, a few people freaked out. Because they are PYTHONS they will get giant and kill my cats, dogs, and child!

The saddest part is, unless you are actually in the field of herpetology and know better, media bias and hysteria has inundated all fields. I was talking to a coworker last week (a fellow biologist! ) about this ban. not only was she not aware of it (not a huge surprise), but she was convinced boa constrictors were invasive and had populations throughout this country! She didn't even realize boa constrictor is its own species, and not a term to use when referring to boids in general. Part of her faulty knowledge has come from the USGS study trying to show burmese pythons can colonize all of the southern areas of the United States. I took probably a good hour explaining all of it.

I've gotten the sizing up bull:cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r: when I first got my baby boa


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