OMG disaster.

[Jellybeans]

Rainbow is a female and she eat a 4lb rabbit later that evening.

So she was probably just hungry when she lines for the other snake
Just being a wild animal

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[Jellybeans]

Typo I meant to say when she lunged for the other snake

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[Skyrivers]

This doesn't bode well for Rainbow.

Typo I meant to say when she lunged for the other snake

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I truly think was purely a act of hunger. 5 weeks is a long time for her. She just refused to eat.

[Bogertophis]

...I have never had an issue having multiple animals out at once before during education shows or any other time. She reached out almost 4 feet to get to him. Happened so fast she had him before we could do anything to prevent it....

As you said, wild animals can be unpredictable (just when we think we "know" them). So glad it wasn't worse.

Like you, I've done many "meet & greets" with some of my snakes with no incidents ever, but now I have to re-think having multiple snakes out at once, especially
letting others (that are new to snakes) hold them. Not like I have any giant snakes though, & I've certainly never taken any hungry ones. That was just a really
awful accident...4' is "nothing" for snakes that big, what a "wake-up call".

[Skyrivers]

As you said, wild animals can be unpredictable (just when we think we "know" them). So glad it wasn't worse.

Like you, I've done many "meet & greets" with some of my snakes with no incidents ever, but now I have to re-think having multiple snakes out at once, especially
letting others (that are new to snakes) hold them. Not like I have any giant snakes though, & I've certainly never taken any hungry ones. That was just a really
awful accident...4' is "nothing" for snakes that big, what a "wake-up call".

Like I always say. Retics have big bodies, big personalities, and big responsibility. I have rewritten my thoughts on them several times this past year for sure. No regrets on having them though. Love everything about them. I only hope others will learn from my mistakes. Vet visit in 2 hours so will update then.

[Bogertophis]

Fingers crossed that there's no damage.

[MR Snakes]

Fingers crossed that there's no damage.

Really? Are they actually crossed?

[Danger noodles]

There are ways to educate and not have two Animals who can potentially attack one another close like that.


It could also have turned out worse for the animals,or for the people, involved.


We as hobbyists are fighting an uphill battle. When things like this happen, especially when it could have been avoided, by simply following a one snake out a time rule (a good rule for safety for all as well as hygiene), it’s upsetting and can and does hurt the hobby.


I’m all for education and getting people to accept. When done properly.

I must be missing some hatred u have for sky. Anyways, I give him credit for sharing his terrible experience with us to potentially help out others. But when people come here and just hate on u them, most people will never post up any mistakes because they don’t want to deal with the haters. If anything u should realize that and leave ur personal opinion of sky out of this.

[350z]

I must be missing some hatred u have for sky. Anyways, I give him credit for sharing his terrible experience with us to potentially help out others. But when people come here and just hate on u them, most people will never post up any mistakes because they don’t want to deal with the haters. If anything u should realize that and leave ur personal opinion of sky out of this.

Or this individual didn't know what a urate was a year ago, got a mainland retic female, magically found a thousand dollar designer reticulated python male which was identical to a snake for sale on morphmarket by a breeder in his state, and now talks about breeding them like it's no big deal. I CANNOT have these snakes in my state without ridiculous permits, and stuff like this is the reason why. No one needs to casually breed these animals, because most cannot casually take care of them. There is no room for error with the big contrictors, and no one needs to watch a retic lunge 4 ft and latch onto another one.

[Skyrivers]

I must be missing some hatred u have for sky. Anyways, I give him credit for sharing his terrible experience with us to potentially help out others. But when people come here and just hate on u them, most people will never post up any mistakes because they don’t want to deal with the haters. If anything u should realize that and leave ur personal opinion of sky out of this.

Thanks. Is all about the education of myself and others for me. That and the love of the animals.

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