Venomous Yes Or No?

[Crazy4Herps]

I'm very curious.... How are constrictors different from hots in this regard? Why are our pythons, boas and colubrids "happy" being kept in captivity, but a snake with venom would not be? They're all still snakes, with the same basic needs (security, consistent environment, food, water)...they just go about dispatching their prey in a different manner.

As far as the poll question goes....I fall into the camp that loves hots as much as I love all snakes, but would never choose to keep one myself because of the high degree of risk involved in doing so. There are too many stunningly beautiful non-deadly snakes out there to keep them all....so I don't feel any strong need to add hots to that list, no matter how beautiful they are.

I believe that the selective breeding of constrictors in captivity for so many, many years is why I get the feeling that they're "happier" in captivity than hots. I am very opposed to keeping any WC snake, or ones that haven't been reproduced in captivity for more than a few generations. The vast majority of the captive hots I've seen and heard about are WC or whose parents or grandparents were WC. Correct me I'm wrong, but I get the feeling that they're very difficult to breed.

For me at least, it's simply the keeping of animals that are not completely adjusted to captivity that I do not support.

(I mean no offense to those of you who keep hots, it's just not my thing.)