did anyone else watch venom 911 last night?

[mommanessy247]

i watch ALOT of animal planet and i was fine throughout the show...until they showed a venom 1 unit setting up at a reptile show displaying a ball python. i was like
"ok your in the business of stocking a variety of anti-venom to treat the many thousands of venomous snake bites that happen, ok good...but why the :cens0r: are you displaying a ball python as you give out info on the many kinds of venomous snake bites you treat?!"
i've noticed that these snakes are usually the 1st ones pictured in situations like these. the NONvenomous species are depicted when info about venomous species is given out. and seriosuly that urks me big time cuz it's just giving people a visual of one snake and info on another. the people seeing that are gonna leave with the knowledge they've been given but they'll be thinking of the snake they saw, hence associating that NONvenomous species with the venomous ones.
OH and not to mention they said "poisonous/poison" a couple times too when referring to the envenomations...you'd think "gee, they're an anti-VENOM unit...you'd think they'd get their terminology correct at least, right?"
ok sorry, i just had to rant about that for a sec.

[SpartaDog]

Yeah, that does piss me off. A lot of shows do it because the media groups all snakes together as either giant constrictors or venomous.

Honestly, they probably had a nonvenomous snake because the expo or state didn't allow venomous species. However, if that was the case, they'd have been better off not having a live example at all. In fact it would have been awesome for them to have a photographic guide to venomous species so people could learn about it.