Quote Originally Posted by piranhaking
I dont think leaving a fuzzy in with it unsupervised would be a problem, but i wouldnt want to leave anything that could bite unsupervised at all. Kim, do you have any more info about the size of the snake and the size of the mouse/rat your uncle was feeding?

No--this was back when he was in his 20's (In his mid-40's now). I was telling him about my BP purchase and when I'd be picking him up and he told me that when he was younger and in Florida he had a Python. From the rest of our conversation, he didn't sound like he had been a very well-informed snake owner (and then again, it seems like a lot of information about the keeping of snakes has come around in the last 20 years or so). So whether his "Python" was a Ball Python or a Python, I couldn't say for sure. Or what he was feeding it at the time. All he said was that he found his snake chewed up and dead one day after he had fed it--and then I explained that I wouldn't be leaving my snake alone with live prey and that he would be eating frozen/thawed anyway so something like that wouldn't become an issue for me. That's about all we said on the subject.

He wasn't very encouraging about my getting one, either. I guess his opinions on herps has changed over the years.