Pregnancy and Pythons

[CherryPython]

This may have been covered before, and if it has pleeease link me to it

My friend has just got himself a corn snake, he's really getting into reptiles and has seen a pair of BPs, male and female, and he's seriously thinking about putting a deposit down on them. He's doing his research but his girlfriend has just found out she's pregnant. Now he already has a corn snake like I said, and she also has a Brooks king snake... and she's really against getting them. I thought, due to the fact she likes snakes and seems knowledgable and has a snake of her own plus her boyfriends snake, it was a money issue. Its not a money issue at all.

Apparently she's only worried about BPs (not other snakes), about the baby dying, them escaping and also said that breeding them would be cruel.

I'm running out of things to say really, I've got a bit of a temper too and I don't want to go off on one at my friends girlfriend who is also my friend... I understand she's worried about the baby. I do. But I've never heard of anyone else that's had problems with pregnancy and snakes, and have friends that have had littluns that grew up around snakes...

I guess I'm just asking for some advice to give my male friend, who it seems is giving up because nothing he can do is right :/

Fankshoooo

[dr del]

Tell him to do everything he can to make the mother of his children happy.

Logical argument is not going to get him anything apart from a permanent bed on the couch.


dr del

[shelliebear]

Sometimes during pregnancy women go into "mother mode" and logic just doesn't pierce through the brain. All they can think of is baby, baby, baby. :p
I guess it is between the friend and the girlfriend because there's nothing you can do; if she doesn't listen to reason, won't listen to reason, then it won't work to get the snakes. Arguing will not help either. I think this one has to be waited out.

[CherryPython]

Thanks guys

I'm not getting involved, they've been together less than four months, so just attempting to give advice to attempt to maybe make her see BPs aren't bad little salmonella monsters and the only snake that could bear a risk to her unborn child...

Any comments on the "breeding is cruel" thing? I wasn't sure what to make of that...

[AK907]

A ball python isn't really what I would consider more dangerous than a corn snake, at least when it comes to a human. These aren't burmese we're talking about, and even then, c'mon! But, you can't talk common sense into some people. And they have been together for 4 months and are already reproducing themselves? To me that says a lot about them right there.

[ExotixTowing]

Thanks guys

I'm not getting involved, they've been together less than four months, so just attempting to give advice to attempt to maybe make her see BPs aren't bad little salmonella monsters and the only snake that could bear a risk to her unborn child...

Any comments on the "breeding is cruel" thing? I wasn't sure what to make of that...

Tell him to get the snakes... If this is what they are going through 4 months in... He's doomed anyways haha

[CherryPython]

A ball python isn't really what I would consider more dangerous than a corn snake, at least when it comes to a human. These aren't burmese we're talking about, and even then, c'mon! But, you can't talk common sense into some people. And they have been together for 4 months and are already reproducing themselves? To me that says a lot about them right there.

Exactly...
I thought that (shhhh) but I'm keeping my mouth shut on that particular point lol...

[Valentine Pirate]

There's a strange common mental image in the general public when breeding comes up. It's either viewed as a dog showing thing (breeding animals for show) or puppy mills, it's rare I come across someone who doesn't think of those things when they hear about breeding. The "breeding is cruel" seems to be a PETA/H$U$ encouraged image that if you breed animals they WILL end up in a bad home, and you're a bad person for bringing innocent animals into the world. One of my favorite things is when I'm able to talk about how captive breeding helps wild populations, encourages education, etc. with people who wouldn't otherwise know about it.

That's all I can guess at for the breeding comment. And the rest of it is something to be worked out between them unfortunately. Sucks that she thinks that BPs are such a threat, but if logic and reasoning hasn't gone through yet then it's unlikely that it'll change anytime soon.

[Slim]

Any comments on the "breeding is cruel" thing? I wasn't sure what to make of that...

To my way of thinking, breeding BPs is the responsible thing to do. Captive breeding provides heathy animals to the hobby, and leaves wild animals in the wild. I see it as a win-win situation.

[JaGv]

sorry to bud in your thread like this but im kinda having the same issue my gf is pregnant and since i already own two snakes she want me to get rid of them because her step mom herd on the news of a snake killing a baby. to me thats all a bunch of bull my bps are still small around 2ft or less and they wont be staying in the room after the baby but my gf still says she herd they are bad for the babies