Quote Originally Posted by Neal View Post
While some BPs can eat from your hand, it's not good to do it. With the smell of rodent and the heat signatures your snake could miss. Then when it lands on you and you freak out or accidentally go to yank your hand away you can cause an injury to your snake. So while I know this can be done, I honestly consider it a bad judgement call to do it. I in no way mean to offend you, but certain stuff you just don't want people to try because then when they get bit or if their parents see them get bit if they're under 18 it just creates another bad mark on our hobby.
If you back up and read it again, there was nothing said about a snake striking a hand held prey item. I don't know the behavior of the other poster's animal, but I DO know the behavior of my own.

While it may seem like a bad judgment call to you, the fact is that the behavior of an individual animal can be learned. From there, accurately predicting what that animal will do in a given situation becomes fairly simple. If you can use that knowledge to demonstrate things like this, like pythons showing recognition of people and taking food from their hands, you allow people to see that they're not dumb, dangerous animals. Far from being reckless, it shows what can be accomplished when you take the time to get to know an animal, respect its intelligence and develop some trust.

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