Quote Originally Posted by Neal View Post
Okay, wow. Are you reading what I'm saying, or better yet maybe try to comprehend. I know he said it didn't strike, again. Here, since you're having a hard time comprehending what I'm saying, I'll bold and underline it for you. The snake could of struck and missed. In the process it could of bit his hand.. Do you see that now, or do I need to make it bigger? I know what happened, clearly because my 8 year old nephew could of understood that. What I'm telling you is what could of happened, which you're not understanding. It could of entirely went wrong. This is what I'm trying to get you to understand. No matter how long you've had a snake for, anything could go wrong. This is why I said it's a bad judgement call. You are clearly ignorant to the fact that a snake does not have this intelligence that dogs or cats or other animals have. I'm not sure what planet you grew up on to not understand common sense but wow. Responding to fetch and all that is because the animal was intelligent enough to be taught how to do that. You clearly have no understanding on snakes or knowledge of snakes, or let me rephrase that. You have little knowledge on how intelligent snakes are. You can try to develop an understanding all you want with an animal but in the end, that animal is in fact an animal, which makes them unpredictable. Snakes can learn simple things, escaping is something they do when they're cruising around or wanting to explore. Yes a scorpion can learn to escape too. I can tell you that from experience. I can spend as much time as I want with a scorpion and the fact is they will not learn other tasks. People pick scorpions up and put them on their hand and say, oh my scorpion knows me and won't sting me. WRONG. The fact is that there is a reasonable scientific explanation for this. In most cases, nearly all as a matter of fact a scorpion will not sting the ground/hand/finger it's sitting on. You put your other finger in front of it to touch it and watch what happens though.

People think that snakes enjoy being held. The more scientific explanation for this is that your hand is warm, they like heat because they're cold blooded, and this brings new territory to them. Yes, some get comfortable and will settle down and stay still, but it's not about learning at that point.

Yes hook training a snake helps them differentiate food from getting prepared to being handled. What you fail to realize and is so beyond funny because my 8 year old nephew clearly understands it more then you. BP's use vision as well as the heat pits and the sense of smell. So with the rat being warm, your hand being warm, your hand smelling like rats because you're holding one, and if your snake strikes and misses it's because it was going after one of the smells.

Yes while his snake didn't strike, and it may not strike for 30 more times, but that 31st time it could strike. You've clearly got to learn what you're talking about kiddo.
Your 8 year old nephew could HAVE understood. Dude, if you're going to make a feeble attempt to be witty and insult someone's intelligence, at least make an attempt not to sound ignorant.

Maybe you should put that 8 year old on the computer. He's bound to make more sense. I'm really happy you're so experienced with scorpions. Unfortunately it's irrelevant. The fact that you haven't done ANY research of your own into the way a snake's brain works makes this entire conversation nearly worthless. You don't even understand conditioned response well enough to know when you're contradicting yourself. It's not even worth pointing it out anymore. You're obviously more interesting in remaining ignorant. Good luck with that.

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