poor yaya

[jasonmcgilvrey83]

Well im down to two bps now. One of my bps was a bit nippy and my wife was scared that he would bite my kids. He was my work in progress. He was doing better about it and was warming up to being held. On a good note he was givin to a friend who lives close by so i can still see him.

[Pyrate81]

I'd start thinking about giving the wife to a friend. Soon you won't have any snakes.

[Mike41793]

You have "nile monitor" and "red tail boa" listed under your collection. Your wife was really worried about a bite from a ball python...?

[dkspftw]

You have "nile monitor" and "red tail boa" listed under your collection. Your wife was really worried about a bite from a ball python...?

They want to make sure the BP doesn't bite their kid so it's still nice and fresh for when they feed it to the monitor!

(This has been a joke. I do not advocate the feeding of children to reptiles, as they are fatty and difficult to digest.)

[Pythonfriend]

reminds me of a NERD video where they show a bunch of BPs and the guy presenting them just gets bit over and over again by different BPs, i think 4 times, and his hands just get bloodier and bloodier through the video ^^ And it doesnt even distract him or slow him down.


and here an amazing talk about 5 dangerous things yo should let your kids do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXhddUqNNjo

basically if you keep your children too safe, and guard them against everything perceived (often wrongly) as being dangerous, they might fail to pick up any risk management skills.

BTW as a kid i did all of these things.

Playing with non-venomous snakes that might or might not bite you fits in perfectly. I wouldnt protect my kids (if i had kids) from a harmless snake byte at the cost of them missing out on everything they can learn from it.

[Mike41793]

A non-venomous snake bite would have been low on my list of dangerous things me and my brother (and our dog who was always there to encourage the poor choices) did when we were younger haha!!

[Kodieh]

Was gonna make a thread for it, but this is a good place to me. This the result of a ball probably three times the size as yours giving a feeding response to the rat I accidentally water bowled.

As you can see, it's nothing.



Today, 12 hours after. I think I might need amputation.

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[jasonmcgilvrey83]

My son didn't mind having him at all. He got tagged twice by him and overtime it happened just made him want to pick him up more. My son and i know bp bites that size don't hurt but the wife flipped. The guy that has him lives close so my son can still see and hold him. All and all He is a good bp. Just a little skiddish at times. As for the Nile monitor hee a huge love bug. He thinks he's a dog. Lol. Never bit or anything.

[jasonmcgilvrey83]

First nip from yaya

[DooLittle]

My daughter hasn't been tagged yet. But she is very cautious with the grumpy ones. I have a feeling if she got bit, she would lecture said snake about biting her, lol. Sorry to hear about losing your guy.