Wow, that's a bit... FEED YOUR DAMN SNAKE. Snakes don't actually go around eating everything and anything, they tend to avoid the world if they're not hungry (10x less likely to escape too)
The only time I've known a snake to curl around someone in bed, is when the light bulb had blown and they were cold. (Gave the owner quite a fright in the morning). However that one was well fed and had no interest in feeding. (His owner fed it dead rabbits, which take a while to digest).
Escaped Python Found Wrapped Around Sleeping Baby: Ban Pet Pythons?
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The father saved his infant baby from a neighbor's pet python snake. The python escaped the neighbor's apartment and made its way into the crib. Should government ban pet pythons? All pet snakes?
REUTERS.COM reports:
REUTERS.COM reports:
Like many parents, Devin Winans checked in on his sleeping infant in the middle of the night. His one-year-old baby boy was stirring in his sleep and Winans felt around the crib. To the parent's shock
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Crypt_Heart 2012/07/22 14:25:41
Stuff resulting from crap like this is what has done the most to errode the quality of interaction by the members of our current society between one another in general.
I feel that people should be required to petition for a license in order to own 'exotic' animals that pose a serious potential danger. My science teacher had not one but two, and we were allowed to handle them, they were very friendly. I could even let them slide around my neck without fear of being strangled. But we always held them and played with them when the teacher or other students were around, because snakes-- while not evil-- are unpredictable.
But I think that people should have to have clamps on the aquariums they keep the snake in in domestic homes, because those snakes actually can lift up a mesh screen top. Prove that they have the right environment ready for it before they're allowed to keep it.
YOU might not want a snake, but some people do. I used to own a chameleon, which some people would be squeamish about, but which I loved. Many people own iguanas, which make excellent pets, but also have teeth sharp enough to crack fingernails or leave serious bites. The solution here is responsible ownership and regulation, not banning them.
Success in the Keys has prompted the Conservancy, with support from the National Park Service and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, to expand the program to mainland sites around the Everglades National Park—infested with a population that some estimate at between 30,000 and 100,000 snakes. The Everglades problem started more than a dozen years ago because of escaped or released pets."
http://www.nature.org/ourinit...
WOW that.