My BP drank from my bare hands again!

[Neal]

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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Were you there to know the fact? No, so don't presume to act like you do. I said it's a bad judgement call. I never said it couldn't be done. I never said dogs or cats were unpredictable either. I own a wolf, so I know of the risks but you don't see me over here advertising it either.

You said I didn't read a few posts up where it never struck. I wasn't even referring to anything you said, I never said it struck either, I said it could of and missed. You just don't know. I did not make an inaccurate generalization, I said it's a bad judgement call to sit here and advertise it. You could have your animal for 25 years, and it never bite you, and you deal with it several times a week. That doesn't mean you know your animal. Snakes can't learn, sure they can associate smells with experiences. If you honestly think you know your snake and know it won't do something, then you're either blind or found something that's legal to smoke, and have had way too much of it. Snakes are awesome pets, and I think it sucks that people look down on them due to fears and such. But snakes a primitive species with little reasoning skills. They can't be trained to sit or fetch, roll over or play dead. Snakes react mainly from instincts.

We can continue this all day long if you'd like but common sense always triumphs in the end.

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Also your assumption is as blank as the peoples assumption of what happened. I know people that have been bit by snakes they've interacted with the whole snakes life.