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Last edited by Freakie_frog; 04-24-2008 at 09:23 PM.
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Re: Way to go Alan
Any specific reason they're antagonizing the baby??
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Re: Way to go Alan
Who's this guy? Is it who I think it is?
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Re: Way to go Alan
Originally Posted by littleindiangirl
Any specific reason they're antagonizing the baby??
Alan wasn't antagonizing it we were looking at so new babies and he touched its tail and it started striking at him. So he was trying to pick it up and couldn't..Nothing sinister going on just a guy not wanting to get bit and unable to get around behind the animal to pick it up.
Originally Posted by Emilio
Who's this guy? Is it who I think it is?
Alan is one of our members here that joined a group of us in Birmingham that weekend. I'm think he is more of a reader than a poster.
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001? ~ Mark Cuban "for the discerning collector"
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Re: Way to go Alan
Originally Posted by littleindiangirl
Any specific reason they're antagonizing the baby??
No antagonizing at all, like Ed said he merely touched the snakes tail and it set it off, it just came back from being in a container with a few other baby Ball Pythons at the show and was a little stressed, so it didn't take much to set it off. Everyone there loves Ball Pythons and wouldn't antagonize or cause harm to any BP, it was just funny to watch Alan trying to pick up the little girl without being tagged, thats why it was on film.
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Re: Way to go Alan
Ahh, it looks much different to me I guess. Looked like a bunch of people laughing at a striking baby ball python on a bed. I have to say I was pretty appalled. We talk so much about how new BP's are stressed and need an adjustment period of no handling in a quiet room. Why would we post something that shows the exact opposite? Taking it out of the cup to display on a hotel bed in a room full of excited people?
Sorry for my rudeness I guess, and what's done is done, but had it been anyone else, or some random post on youtube we'd all be in a riot over it. Wouldn't we??
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Re: Way to go Alan
Even though I understand you point for other situations, we were at a show, away from home and couldnt go home to let the BP settle in their tubs, so we pulled them out of their snake bags instead of leaving them there all the time and we were simply looking over the purchases from the day and that baby Ball was laid on the bed for Alan to look at, when he went to pick it up is when that started, it was as simple as that, nothing else to it
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Re: Way to go Alan
...bet it was a 'had to be there situation'...Maybe a description with the video would have helped....
....I do not see anything to get appauled over anyway...
...except a 'reptile keeper' afraid to pick up a baby ball python because it might strike
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Re: Way to go Alan
I don't see it as them laughing at the poor baby ball python. They're definitely laughing at Alan.
I think it helps to know a bit of background from the Dixie Reptile threads, and to know the people involved. (well most of them anyway ) It's not like they are poking at it's head, but instead they are trying to pic the little one up. It probably would have been a bit easier to just have gotten a hand towel and covered it up, but I do not see any cruelty.
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Cause when push comes to shove you taste what you're made of
You might bend, till you break cause its all you can take
On your knees you look up decide you've had enough
You get mad you get strong wipe your hands shake it off
Then you Stand
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Re: Way to go Alan
It definitely was not Alan antagonizing the snake, but I can see how, without the background it would look like it. Alan was looking at her on the bed and when he touched her tail, she started to strike. He tried picking her up and she kept striking at him. The laughing was definitely at Alan.
As you can see at the very end after Alan got bit after "successfully" picking her up and put her down quickly, I quietly secured her head and picked her up (and at that point tucked her into the snake bag and then into a heated tub I brought).
It was very funny watching Alan's face (which you can't see) while he was trying to pick her up - there was nothing sinister about the situation.
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