I understand what your trying to show. And I agree people need to understand that just because and animal is venomous does not make it a more aggressive animal. But free handling a hot is not a great way to make that point. The fact that you've been working with hots for 13 years just tells me that you should have the expiernce to know better. I've been keeping hots for 17 years. I've (knock on wood) never had a bite. And big part of that is I always observe proper safety protocols and don't take risks like putting myself within the strike range of venomous animals simply because I believe I have the experience to know that animal isn't going to bite me. I have however seen a very competent keeper with over 20 Years of expiernce take a bite in the face from a large puff adder because he was trying to show someone how docile and trustworthy that animal was. I hope you don't have to learn the hard way that free handling hot's for any reason is a bad idea. And I really hope that your actions don't inspire any less expiernced keepers to make the same bad choices that your photo displayed.Originally Posted by reptileexperts
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