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I heard that a snake can be as small as 5 feet to eat a child. Is this true? How long/big could it be to eat a grown human? Again, I'm sorry if this question seems out of the ordinary.

A 5 ft snake can swallow something about the size of a mouse or a bit bigger (a rat) depending on the snake's girth. I believe a snake is not able to actually eat a small child until it's about 20 ft (correct me if I'm wrong). It's true that it's not safe to leave a child unsupervised with any large snake, but most you would keep as pets would never get large enough to inflict much damage.
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a snake as small as five feet can choke a child, but eat it? no...
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It could happen... but if you're watching the situation there's no danger. You can easily pry a 5 foot snake off something (someone) with your hands. There's a big difference, though, between boas and pythons and smaller snakes. A 5 foot python will be more dangerous than a 5 foot rat snake. Pythons become dangerous to adults around 10 or 12 feet.

But a snake would have to be HUGE to eat a kid. I'd say 15 feet.
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The only snakes that could possibly swallow a child would be a hudge 20fter, burm, rock, retic, anaconda, dut they don't even consider people as prey. A 5ft snake around a child's neck tighting up to hold on from falling could be concern. I dont't even allow my larger kings and balls around my kids necks.