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[bsd13]

My 0.02 - Snakes bite sometimes. No sense in trying to hide it or dilute it so it is more palatable. They are wild animals and people should know that. No better way to display that fact than a video clip, imo.

[Patrick Long]

its def not brian! looks like chewy

[Jenn]

I think it's great that we can all laugh at someone getting bit by a snake. But when some Legislature who knows nothing about snakes, needs to make an informed vote on whether to outlaw our hobby, and visits our site for information... Will they laugh too?

[littleindiangirl]

I'm sort of thinking some of us may be a bit jaded about snake bites... and I'm sure Brian would switch it immediately if asked.

But, I am still of the mind that it is not offensive, and is an advertisment for snake bytes, where one of the highlights are feeding and snake bites.

People are fascinated by snakes and snake biting, that's why there are shows around like the big squeeze that only depict snake's attacking humans and eating their dogs...

But if those same people click on the small ad for snake bytes and watches the episode expecting more snakes biting people and blood... they will also discover the wonderful world of snakes through that show. Meet brian and his crew, see the awesome NARBC show.... and get so see some feeding vids and bites.

Considering it's a rotating ad, it's not on every single time you refresh the screen. If someone is offended by snakes biting, than perhaps snakes are not for them in the first place.

Do you know how many times I've been bit by my snakes in the past year? NONE
Do you know how many times I was bit by my cat last night (had him for 3 weeks now)? About 30 times.
How many times I've been bit by rats? Bad bites w/ blood: 3 times Nips: a whole heck of a lot

Still... its an ad for snake bytes that's doing it's job by showing the public what they want to see.

Do you think it would be as effective if it was a shot of a snake sitting calmly in brian's hands? Or gliding through his fingers and just being calm? I dont think so! I think no one would even look at that ad! Shock value, leads to clicks, leads to further understanding of snakes and their nature.

[Freakie_frog]

I think it's great that we can all laugh at someone getting bit by a snake. But when some Legislature who knows nothing about snakes, needs to make an informed vote on whether to outlaw our hobby, and visits our site for information... Will they laugh too?

Maybe they wont laugh but they will be informed. I agree that wreckless irresponsible information and actions on the part of some reptile owners is some of the reason we are even worrying about how this might effect it. But I feel it is better to be honest and not try and candy coat any thing in this hobby. We should be saying "these are snakes, this is how they eat, you might get bit, it might get big" I think if we would quit with the gilding of the lily so to speak there would be fewer irresponsible keepers getting in to this.

just my two cents

[Nate]

that mountain & mole hill saying comes to my mind.

when some Legislature who knows nothing about snakes, needs to make an informed vote on whether to outlaw our hobby, and visits our site for information... Will they laugh too?

That's a bit of a far stretch. Do politicians visit forums to gather information?

[turk621]

To me it looks like the snake hit's the floor that worried me more the guy getten bit. Snake's bite thats the way it is. I also agree that snake is most likely not handled on a regular basis. That could explain the bite

[West Coast Jungle]

show's called snakebytes and this is a promotional video.

Oh yeah and some snakes really bite

[FL0OD]

it does say "SnakeBytes.TV" right under it

[ctrlfreq]

That's a bit of a far stretch. Do politicians visit forums to gather information?

I think politicians actually gathering information on a subject before legislating it was enough of a stretch.