Ball Pythons... deadly? According to animal planet...

[Kristy]

I was watching Animal Precinct last night. This guy was surrendering his snake because he wasn't supposed to have it, and was moving.

So their snake guy shows up, and was like burmese pythons get this big, blah burmese, blah blah gets released into the wild, burmese blah, blah, blah...

Yeah, it was a great looking adult Boa constrictor. The owner was standing right there as he was talking about it too, wonder if he thought he had a burm?

Anyway, I found myself saying No Dude thats a boa. My husband just laughed at me.. saying they can't hear you, stop correcting them

Oh well, I try.

[SecurityStacey]

anyone know for sure what show it was? i am trying to find it.

Animal Cops San Fran

They had an episode a while back where I believe a medium burm, maybe 8-10 ft bit and constricted a really ignorant woman who was helping her sister and wasn't shown what to do. The woman had a rabbit in a bag, and tried to drop it in the cage, but it got stuck and she reached into the cage to pull it out, and the snake struck, and constricted her arm. Obviously her arm was much warmer than the dead rabbit, and the snake got confused. The animal police came out and wrestled it off her, and then they did a little narration on why the woman was at fault, and ultimately her sister was responsible. Aparently the sister moved, and couldnt take it, so it was left with a total novice, she wasn't instructed how to properly care for the animal, and got bit, it could have been worse, it only constricted her arm. I think it might have been Animal Cops Houston, I find that they seem much more knowledgeable, but their animal behavior specialist seems to always want to put the dogs down, we joke in my house, "those puppies are too cute, gotta put em down." Animal cops NY seems to rehab a large percent, Houston puts down all dogs with a hint of aggression, even if they were starved for months and show food aggression, this can be dealt with as they put on weight.

I have noticed the Houston one does a terrific job with reptiles. They picked one up the other day (can't remember what it was for the life of me - we watch it at work) and he handled the snake easily and pointed out that it was "friendly" unlike the florida one where I have seen the "reptile expert" (not tha animal cop) use a snake hook on a ball python.

[SecurityStacey]

I was watching Animal Precinct last night. This guy was surrendering his snake because he wasn't supposed to have it, and was moving.

So their snake guy shows up, and was like burmese pythons get this big, blah burmese, blah blah gets released into the wild, burmese blah, blah, blah...

Yeah, it was a great looking adult Boa constrictor. The owner was standing right there as he was talking about it too, wonder if he thought he had a burm?

Anyway, I found myself saying No Dude thats a boa. My husband just laughed at me.. saying they can't hear you, stop correcting them

Oh well, I try.

From the way he talks the snake expert from the florida one didn't know the difference between a burmese python and a reticulated pythons - a burm they catch he refers to it as both during the show.

[nootcakes]

wow just watched that myself.

[Microddot]

Is there an easy way to watch it online?

[SecurityStacey]

Is there an easy way to watch it online?

I don't think so, I watched it on animal planet.

[Microddot]

dang, now i am going to have to find it somewhere.

[Nippy]

Speaking of "deadly" ball pythons...............

AK Airlines has "special" restrictions for shipping them because according to them they are a very heavy bodied snake and you can't have too many in a bag. Uhhhhh, nevermind that I'm also shipping two blood pythons which get WAY more heavy bodied. Whoever is writing their reptile info has no clue.

[kratos]

I feel sorry for the guy I hope they'll do a rerun so I can watch it.

[Sputnik]

There is no educating the folks at Animal Planet. It's all about shock factor and ratings. Let this be a lesson to us all. Don't let your neighbors know about your collection or you may be next.

That's it in a nut shell.... sad that we as keepers of pretty harmless animals are branded by uneducated people who are clearly not even qualified to perform the job they have as people to be feared for keeping harmless snakes. I guess we all need psychiatric treatment because it is unnatural....