Quote Originally Posted by bearhart View Post
Most animals, unless they don't take well to captivity (or domestication), have much shorter lifespans "in the wild" - just like people.

Snakes are eaten by predators in the wild. Snakes are subject to abnormal weather conditions in the wild. Snakes starve in the wild. Snakes get ticks in the wild. Snakes get diseases in the wild. And, snakes get injured by their prey in the wild.

Saying "snakes eat live prey in the wild" is true but I don't think it necessarily means its not dangerous.
Can't speak for anyone else, but out of all the WC snakes (ballpark of around 1000) I've come across over the past 14 yrs, only a handful had any kind of skin blemish or scarring. And thats not to say that of all the scarred ones, each injury had come from a prey item. Coulda been something else.

Just putting that out there...