SNAKES ROCK

You are an idiot Tanya. Lots of people have been eaten or killed by pet snakes. Snakes don’t love you – they just haven’t gotten hungry or angry enough to fuck you up yet. Don’t downplay the power of ancient animal instinct.

I have respect for nature. My family and I frequently visit Florida’s beautiful state parks. In fact, we typically pick a section of Florida each year to explore for vacation. My concerns are: people get these guys as pets, then release them into the wild when they are too big and costly to continue feeding/harboring inside the home. As a Floridian, I do not like this threat. It is messing with the ecosystem of the Everglades. For those who don’t believe these guys are dangerous, this “pet” SWALLOWED an alligator! A SIX FOOT ALLIGATOR!!!! Now how tall are human adults? How tall is a child? Look whose coming to dinner!

And the real stupidity is the fact we “high intellect, top of the food chain” humans always believe we can control everything, whether it’s a 12 foot long snake (or alligator, they get pretty big too), a lion, tiger, or bear…Oh My! Predatory brains are wired for two things. Eat and reproduce! It’s all for survival. Even more idiocy, we place human thoughts and human feelings on our pets; but they ARE NOT human.

People get a grip!

I don’t understand how people can be so afraid of an aminal that you are generaly 50 to 100 times larger than them. If you figure most snakes in the us are only 4-6 feet long on average and weight from 2-8 pounds , yes there are some exceptions, it just doesn’t make sense to me.

Here’s a thought for ya, rats cause huge problems in most city’s and they’re everywhere. concider this the rats natural predetors are hawks owls and snakes, or course your dog and cat might get a few. Most city’s that i’ve been in have hawks, owls, cats and dogs. Most lack snakes simply because there is no where for the snakes to hide! They try to avoid people and would be much happier laying on a rock or curled up under one eating a rat!

In all my research about snakes, and i’ve done my fair share because i wanted to know what i was bringing around my children, i have only found one case where a snake tried to eat a human. The snake, that was killed before it could swallow its meal, was a 28 ft reticulated python (native to asia, india and africa) and its still unknown if the snake killed the person or the person died and the snake happened apon him.

Closer to home people do die because of snake bites. Some snakes venom is very deadly but here are some more facts for you. Just because a venomous snake bites you it does not mean that it enjected any venom into you and most defensive strikes from venomous snakes do not include any venom. producing vemon takes alot of energy for the reptiles and they pefer not to use it if they’re not eating.

One last though, my son has required stiches from a dog bite, many people in the us are attacked by dogs each year and some are killed by dogs. when’s the last time you heard about anyone dying from a pet snake attack? Even better check and see confirm your fears because reality overcomes fear.

Before you start going off about how bad we humans are for killing that poor snake, go look in your closets, in your fridges and freezers, more than likely, you’ve got some part of a ‘poor animal’ there.

The circle of life has and always will be in force, since the dawn of man, animals have been just below man on the food chain and that will remain true for the foreseeable future. If you are offended or displeased by harm to animals, try to recall the fact that your stupid ass wouldn’t be here if early man had not been the skilled hunter he was. Animals eat animals and like it or not, humans are animals.