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What crawled up your butt and died?

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Posted by: varanid at Mon Dec 21 11:46:11 2009  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by varanid ]  
   

what "mortal damage" are you talking about?! Jesus H Christ. You just don't like that some of us keep bigger animals? There's been a paltry number of deaths associated with these animals, and while there are some abandonded, it doesn't seem that out of line with corns and kings or other smaller critters. hell, every rescue herp I've taken in has been small--a handful of getula subspecies, a ball python, 2 corns. No retics, rocks, or burms. Not even a boa.

Yes, these animals are possibly dangerous. It is my right as an adult to decide if I want to expose myself to that danger. I'll take steps to minimize it, but it's worth it to me. No body in the general public has ever been killed by a pet snake. In a handful of cases, children of the keeper have been killed. In those cases, negligent homicide (or is it manslaughter?) cases are warranted IMO. A person a year or so dying, out of thousands of keepers, is by no wise extremely dangerous.

Is some regulation warranted? Age limits. but I'd apply that to animals in general, even the smaller colubrids. Possibly a licensing system. I dont' want it to be like Texas' system, because that one is a blatant money grab; you go pay 20 bucks per year and that's it. Don't have to show anything to prove you know a damn thing.


   

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