Venomous Yes Or No?

[alucard0822]

Ive always loved and been facinated by hots but i wouldnt own one.

My only reason behind this is i dont want something that i cant touch and hold like you can with BP's. My only exception is my fish aquarium and i have held a couple of the fish lol. Large pleco's cannot be netted for fear of injuring their fins or spines so i just pick them up by hand to transfer them.

As for the gun statement. I have a 5 year old. I have firearms and knives. Its called responsibility. I was raised in a home full of weapons but i knew what would happen if i ever tried to touch any of them. My parents tought me right. Im educated and responsible about them and I have no worries about my son.

Hots on the other hand. Id want to hold it and id get mad that i couldnt. I do love eyelash vipers though.

This. I love handling reptiles, and having one I can't doesn't appeal to me, same with the safety procedures needed to clean the cage or care for one. I look at my aquarium as a piece of living art, can't really "handle" my Oscars, but I can still reach in and fix something without much work, and I don't have much to worry about if one gets out of the tank. I can see some that may see a nice display terrarium and a venomous reptile in a similar way, to watch and study only, or approach the hobby as a collector, and not a handler, but that isn't me.

I too grew up around guns, own, carry, instruct, and compete with them, and plan on passing that on to my 3 year old son. For those that are interested, but have concerns about safety, especially around young children, attending a "first steps Firearm safety" course is probably free or close to it, and will go a long way in alleviating those concerns. There are simple safety procedures that will keep people safe, most are intuitive, I suspect the same for keeping venomous, although there is a difference in an inanimate tool and a living breathing creature, and what they are capable of.