Alot of people just don't get how powerful a venomous snake is.



The real problem with keeping exotics is if/when you get bitten, the hospital normally doesn't have the antivenom for it. Therefore, death is inevitable if your bitten, because there is nothing they can do for you, such as the case with the urutu viper that this woman was bitten by.



Proper training should be a requirement for keeping these animals... or we should just let natural selection take its course.



I really don't understand the attraction of keeping something that could kill you so easily, unless you had the treatment for it in your posession. Though I've never seen the effects of venom firsthand, from pictures I can see that it completely destroys anything that it is injected to, from mice to water buffalo.



In the "proper training" I think that it should be manditory to have the antivenom on hand if you are keeping the snake. It would be difficult (albeit impossible) to regulate, but if the antivenom was on hand deaths would be even lower/non existent.



Just my thoughts...
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