Ball python 'attacks' toddler in park

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

Poor snake. So the next time I am warding off an attacker, like the snake was.. I am attacking the attacker I guess. So beat me with a shovel.
Again.. how do any intelligent, logical people feel about coming with me and colonizing the moon? Too many morons here on earth.

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I'm packing my bags... and toddler eating snakes... right now! :carrot: Can I bring my hubby too? He's kind of fun sometimes and I'd get lonely without him. :D

I have a house full of tarantulas and scorpions, some of them with extremely toxic venom and some with lethal venom.... I also have 4 kids in the same house, the youngest 2 and the oldest 7. None of them have been bitten or stung by any of my inverts. I also have 2 snakes (not BPs though... I wish!) and none of my kids have been bitten by them either. Why? Because my husband and I, as parents, take up the responsibility of making sure that not only are our children safe, but that our "pets" are safe as well.... and we don't let the kids "play" with the inverts.

I've been bitten by snakes, spiders, stung by bees, wasps, scorpions, you name it, as a child and I don't have any phobias.
I don't think that the act of just being bitten (or stung) by something in its self is what gives children phobias that they carry with them into adulthood. While yes, there are some who are truely traumatized by such things, but those instances are pretty rare; what causes phobias are "influences".
My daughter was stung repeatedly (over 12 times) by a hive full of bees a couple years ago (she was 3, is 6 now) and she doesn't have a phobia toward bees, she just ignores them and goes about her business, and yes, she *does* remember being stung and how much it hurt. Why no phobia? Because I didn't freak out and scare her *worse*. My son was bitten in the abdomen by one of the neighbor's dogs 2 years ago and needed stitches (he was 5, is 7 now) and he wants a dog of his own so bad he can't hardly stand it.
How a parent or other adult reacts immedately after an "attack" (for lack of a better word) in front of the child has, by far, more of an impact on the child than the incident its self.

in my room i have tarantulas,snakes, and centipedes(which obviously arent handable).

NO ONE holds my pets but me unless they ask first because i dont want to risk them getting bitten or anything.

true with the phobia thing spider, whenever i see an adult freak out about bees their kids do too, i think it's funny, also obviously a dog can inflict more damage than a snake by a long shot, no comparison there