Quote Originally Posted by angllady2 View Post
I'd really love to blow out of proportion the dog and cat attacks that take place all the time and make people see how idiotic they really are.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking: Salmonella risk aside, most cats can do a lot worse than the very worst a ball python can dish out. And nobody raises heck, because cats are fundamentally harmless.

An out-of-control, badly-treated dog is actually far more dangerous to a child, and I'll defend dog ownership to the end.

I think the best course of action is to do education with our best-behaved ball pythons, teach responsible ownership, and create more crazy snake people like ourselves. The more people are familiar with ball pythons, the more they'll build the sort of popular base like cats and dogs have. There ARE people at HSUS who would ban cat and dog ownership, too---they just can't get a foothold because so many people love having them.