If I'm not mistaken this family also has a very large female retic that the small boy played with (I use past tense because these are somewhat old photos). Yeah, I think any pics of tame snakes are cool. I just hope that that family doesn't leave the snake and boy or any child unattended at any amount of time. It would just be asking for possible trouble as many different things can happen. And that's all this hobby needs is another account of a human killed by a snake. One incident every 10 years and it's blown so far out of proportion that it seems like large constrictors are killing people daily. But no one pays attention to the fact that over 600 people a year are killed by taxicabs,.. or 50 a year by horse kicks,.... or 75 by bee stings,... 150 from alergies to peanuts,. all kinds of ridiculous stuff. It's only the shock value stuff that gets media attention and exaggerated to collosal proportions. It's the same with gators. One death every decade or so and they get a TERRIBLE rap. And then legalized extermination, or "culling" ensues, and it just isn't fair to one of the most amazing creatures on the planet. The last living dinosaur-like reptile and they are labeled a pest or pidgeonholed as a threat to humankind and killed.

Sorry for the rant but this biased disinformation really p's me off and I wish it would stop. Thank God there are television programs nowadays like the croc hunter where facts are delved out and it can counter all the myths and ignorant BS of prior generations.







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