Never trust a large python.

[WileE]

Python ?

 

[chargervert]

I imagine that you can smoke with a python and drink shots of whiskey with a python, but never pass out with a python!

 

[68BabyBlue]

Years ago I had a friend that had snakes. I went to his house one night and found out later that I had been sitting in an upholstered chair that his snake had been hiding in, it had been lost for days. I don't do snakes and that was the last time I went to his house..... Same guy broke his leg, and had a cast. One of his little pets went down his cast, you guess what happened next!! It's all fun and games, till it's not. They aren't made to be a loving thing.

The Farmer and the Snake

One winter day, a farmer found a snake by the roadside, stiff and motionless with cold.

"If you put me inside your shirt," the snake said, "your body will make me warm and I won't freeze to death."

"Oh, I know your kind," replied the farmer. "If I pick you up, you will bite me."

"Oh no," the snake objected. "Why would I do such a thing, if you are good enough to help me?"

So the farmer had compassion on the snake, and taking it up, he put it inside his shirt. The warmth quickly revived the snake, and resuming its natural instincts, it bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. "Oh," cried the farmer with his last breath, "why did you bite me? You promised you wouldn't."

"Ah," said the snake. "So I did. But you knew I was a snake when you picked me up."

The snake thing is like the low performance driver with a high performance car situation. The big ones, and the venomous species are dangerous, and should only be handled accordingly. There are pros who deal with these creatures professionally, and know what they're doing. One of them has had a reptile farm in my area for five decades. He started as a hobbyist, grew a successful business, supplies venom for pharmaceutical companies, keeps some rare species under license. He keeps a king cobra on site, an anaconda, and numerous rare vipers.

He's been bitten a few times, and survived, because he keeps anti-venom on hand for every venomous species he deals with. His exhibits stress the productive role of snakes in the ecosystem, but also the problems that arise when they become invasive species such as the everglades pythons. Like a fast car, if you don't deal with it appropriately, it's going to lead to bad results.

 

[Don selleck]

I used to visit a pet shop in Adrian, Michigan when I was around 10 to 14 years old, always had fish and things like that. The owner Paul had 2 pythons, one large one and a juvenile. They were pretty docile creatures I handled them frequently. But never mess with it when feeding or if it smells blood it will bite you. he would release a live mouse into the cage wearing a glove and let it do its thing. My mom would read a book in the car while I was in there, One day I had it wrapped around my shoulders and went outside with it and tapped on the car window, scared the chit out of my mom and the snake from her response.

 

[SteveSS]

When I was living in Wichita the was an exotic pet store just outside the city limits. (For legal reasons.) I used to go in there and look at all the cool snakes and lizards. Once I walked in the front door and a juvenile Bengal Tiger came padding up to me. The guys in the back of the store were playing with it and didn't realize someone entered the store. The tiger was biting the folds of my jean legs until I finally spoke up. They came running and apologizing and there was no harm done. When I saw with them playing with the tiger was on his back legs mostly so his jaws were up around their heads and necks.

 

[SteveSS]

I guess I've killed so many snakes in my life. It was just the natural thing to do in Oklahoma, especially Copperheads and Cottonmouths. Maybe fate is paying me back. I remember as a kid we were throwing rocks at a giant Alligator Snapping Turtle. Some older women told us to stop. We were so surprised. We thought killing these reptiles were just what you were supposed to do.

 

[Rishi]

Even a "dumb" dog would have more brain than a snake.

It's talk just like this that creates enmity between man and snake. It is no wonder so many are bitten by rattlers, and the feet of babies eaten by pythons abroad.

12 years after pet python killed toddler, victim’s mother released from prison

And who get's blamed? Why man, of course. And so, the cycle continues. When will it ever stop?

 

[j-c-c-62]

One winter day, a farmer found a snake by the roadside, stiff and motionless with cold.
"If you put me inside your shirt," the snake said, "your body will make me warm and I won't freeze to death."
"Oh, I know your kind," replied the farmer. "If I pick you up, you will bite me."
"Oh no," the snake objected. "Why would I do such a thing, if you are good enough to help me?"
So the farmer had compassion on the snake, and taking it up, he put it inside his shirt. The warmth quickly revived the snake, and resuming its natural instincts, it bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. "Oh," cried the farmer with his last breath, "why did you bite me? You promised you wouldn't."
"Ah," said the snake. "So I did. But you knew I was a snake when you picked me up."

I thought that was a topic not allowed in this section?

 

[Detective D]

I guess I've killed so many snakes in my life. It was just the natural thing to do in Oklahoma, especially Copperheads and Cottonmouths. Maybe fate is paying me back. I remember as a kid we were throwing rocks at a giant Alligator Snapping Turtle. Some older women told us to stop. We were so surprised. We thought killing these reptiles were just what you were supposed to do.

It is. You listened to an old woman. We are the top of the food chain.

Unless it was your Ma, or Grandma, you have to listen to Ma. That's the one exception.

 

[Detective D]

Just don't throw it out in the Everglades!!! Too many people dump their pets or flush a snake down a 'turlet' thinking they won't survive....well, too many do survive that and look at the mess we have in the 'glades today. Who knows where else they will show up.

There is one hero out there looking for the 20 footer in the Everglades... yoink man is the hero we need.....

 

[Sam69sat]

Horrifying moment villagers cut open a giant python and discover their missing friend inside who had been swallowed whole after being crushed to death​

Villagers cut open a python and discover their missing friend inside

The lifeless body of Akbar Salubiro, 25, was found inside the body of a seven-metre long python's stomach in his own back garden on the island of west Sulawesi, Indonesia.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[maxwedgechar]

@68BabyBlue I remember back in the Sixties when the gas tanker blew up and they all got away!

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

There once was a woman who had a pet snake that she loved very much. The snake was about 7 feet long and one day it just stopped eating. After several weeks of trying everything she could to get the snake to eat, the woman took it to the vet.

The woman explained the situation to the vet and he asked her, “Has your snake been sleeping with you at night or snuggling really close and stretching himself out?”

The woman replied, “Yes he’s been doing it everyday and it makes me sosad that I can’t help him feel better.”

The vet says “Ma’am your snake is not sick, he has been preparing to eat you. He’s been sizing you up everyday so he knows how big he has to be, and not eating so he has enough room to digest you.

 

[SteveSS]

When we were little we took swimming lessons at the country club pool. The clubhouse wasn't far from a lake that was on the golf course. So we're are swimming and splashing around on a Saturday morning until someone spotted a giant Alligator Snapping Turtle resting on the pool's floor in the shallow end. I guess we were lucky to keep all our toes or maybe a whole foot. MFer is absolutely prehistoric!

 

[alsant]

No sh$$t !!

 

[Rishi]

I guess we were lucky to keep all our toes or maybe a whole foot. MFer is absolutely prehistoric!

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But he's got no teeth. He just a harmless old fart.... like me.

 

[kiwigtx]

But he's got no teeth. He just a harmless old fart.... like me.

I bet his jaw clamps with more force than the best drag-racing clutches.

 

[kiwigtx]

Everyone remember the movie ..... Something about Mary......

 

[dodgeboy440]

It is. You listened to an old woman. We are the top of the food chain.

Unless it was your Ma, or Grandma, you have to listen to Ma. That's the one exception.

Readummmmm &
Weep !!
Haha

 

[dodgeboy440]

Horrifying moment villagers cut open a giant python and discover their missing friend inside who had been swallowed whole after being crushed to death​

Villagers cut open a python and discover their missing friend inside

The lifeless body of Akbar Salubiro, 25, was found inside the body of a seven-metre long python's stomach in his own back garden on the island of west Sulawesi, Indonesia.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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