Question about the new possible boa constrictor ban

[colton62]

I can totally understand getting permits to stop irresponsible ownership, but it floors me how ignorant a lot of these anti-snake people are. Shortly after I got my boa I was linked to an article about how large constrictors will kill you, your children, then take over the world. To my knowledge a lot more people die from dog attacks...

That's exactly how I feel. People just don't give snakes a chance. Anyone see that video about the dog attacking a kid and the cat saved the kid? The kid had to get stitches and if it weren't for the cat it would of been worse. Everyone talked about it for a week saying, oh that's why you don't leave dogs unattended. But if that was a snake, specifically a large python, attacking a kid media would blow up. Nearly 4.5 million people are subject to dog bites yearly with 1 and 5 serious enough to have the person seek medical help and in 2012, 27,000 people had to get reconstructive surgery because of dog bites. Since 2000 there has been about 240-250+ people killed by dogs. And how many have snakes killed, specifically large pythons? About 4-5 in freak scenarios. People need to overcome their fear, since fear in this situation is just pure ignorance and learn that 99% of snakes have no desire to attack or kill you.


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