So...This Is A Thing?

[treeboa]

Well I can see where your coming from, and I'm sorry if I was a bit mean. I guess in my personal opinion I just don't think it would be good to own a venomous reptile as a pet since the main reason most people want a pet is because they want something they can interact with and have fun with. In my opinion I just think that venomous are beautiful animals that should only be viewed from afar or used to extract their venom for antiserum. If you want to own a venomous snake okay own one, but if your going to take its venom glands away then there is no reason for you owning it since its not even the same anymore. What's the point in owning a venomous snake and then taking the glands away? You should've just gotten a non venomous snake. And I think the snake would know that it's venom was gone. If I removed your tear ducts you would know. It seems subtle to us but its probably a big deal for the snake. Especially since when their adults they spend time learning how much venom to inject to their pray, so I think they would feel like something was missing. But this is all in my opinion. I totally respect yours as well and all of your experience. I just wanted to share what I thought.


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That's become my opinion on venomous snakes as well. I've never been interested in venomoids myself. I just would rather idiots like the one in the video have access to them so they don't kill themselves, for themselves and the rest of us. (the press loves a venomous snake kills owner story) The "do it right by apprenticeship" is ideal, but people always have and always will take shortcuts. These people will have that rattlesnake if they want one. If they can't get a venomoid, they'll just get an intact one and kill themselves.

I respect what people have to say and they don't have to agree with me. You just have to remember when trying to empathize with a snake, that they can't physically think the way we do. They don't have the part of the brain that produces higher emotions. They go on instinct. It is possible on some level, they know they have no venom, but they don't have the physical capacity to form the emotion of missing it. People like me aren't try to be mean by saying these things to people that prescribe human emotions like this (or love) to snakes, we're just passing on what science knows to be true.