Meh,
Ok, so there have been a lot of people spamming this on facebook and talking about the head grab. Why was the head grabbed? To hype the episode. The snake showed absolutely no aggression... none... it was trying to get away from the head grab that's for sure, but there was no cage aggression even witnessed. When my mainland males get aggressive, they are flying out of their cage mouth open. But even then, I don't grab the head... the only time I have ever had to grab a retics head was during a shot, and during an inspection on one of my largest girls when we wanted to look in her mouth.
Case and point, when they let the snake go back in the new enclosure, the snake barely retreated... when a snake is angered to a point of worry, especially a retic, they will stand their ground, not simply slither away a little bit and be content. My thoughts are it was going to be a very simple move, so the owner tells some scary story, the guy hypes it up, and they show a giant snake trying to escape a head grab.
Does it represent the hobby well? Not really... Is it the worst thing to happen to retic owners? Probably not since the ultimate goal was "safety" at the cost of demonizing a seemingly docile snake.
My two cents.
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