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varanid
at Wed Feb 11 10:10:38 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by varanid ]
I have giants and I plan to have kids...while keeping the snakes. I also keep firearms in the house, let my kids play in the front yard, shoot bb guns and come herping with me if they want. Those are all potentially dangerous activities that can be made reasonable safe with proper precautions. I didn't grow up in a bubble and I still survived  I may have some interesting scars but hell, I lived through it and usually was much happier than I would have been being protected.
Provided that I keep my head about me, there's no reason not to. Locking cage or locked room (or both) should be enough to prevent that sort of tragedy.
As far as breeder responsibility: I am torn on this. They can thoroughly vet the place before hand, but over the course of a snake's life a lot can change. People can develop illnesses (both mental and physical), they can have reduction in income, they can develop addictions....there's all sorts of stuff that can change over the course of a snake's lifetime. The most you can do is make sure that at that point in time they're able to take care of the snake. 5 years from now? There's no way to really know.
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RE: I agree.... - varanid, Wed Feb 11 10:10:38 2009