Quote Originally Posted by Neal View Post
Animals are animals and while you think you "learn" they're behavior, the fact is they're unpredictable. This is the reason you see people get killed or injured by large constrictors they thought they knew for the previous 10 years of owning it.

Now, if you would of realized that I wasn't talking to you in the first place, as I was referring to jxl's post where his BP is sitting on the table and he stated that it crawled up to his hand and took the rat out of his bare hands, you would of known that my original post wasn't even directed to you.

It's why I said, if the snake would of struck and missed.
I'm assuming you don't own a dog or a cat. Both of those are far more dangerous and unpredictable than ball pythons. For the record, there are very few instances of 10ft+ snakes killing their owners. Even the HSUS only claims to know of seventeen cases of constrictor related deaths since 1978. The owners can't tell us what happened, and the snakes were never asked, but I can almost guarantee that we're talking about animals with next to no human interaction beyond the minimum for feeding and cleaning. Maybe when they were younger and more manageable, but not once they started getting some size. That's hardly a recipe for familiarity.

Now, as far as whether you were talking to me to begin with, no one said you were. You simply made an inaccurate generalization about a subject that's close to me. That's why I responded. Not because it was aimed at me.

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