I'm very interested in the gold eyelash vipers.

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Now if that didn't convice you then I belive the standard advice is that you should get an aggresive non venomus snake such as a coach whip, water snake, etc and keep it for atleast a year. handle it, clean its encloser etc. now every time it bites you, take a little sticky note and write something like this and tape it to it's encloser:

"Today I would have almost died and would owe the hospital 30,000 give or take."

By the end of the year decide whether or not you still want to keep a hot.

Hahaha, I love this idea. Well put