Never trust a large python.

[SteveSS]

So I've been babysitting this huge python for my son. I thought the snake and I were becoming friends. When he came out of his hide I figured he was hungry and hunting. I would buy a large frozen rat and thaw him and while still warm I'd use kitchen tongs and dangle the rat. Within 2 seconds he would hit it lightning fast and throw 3 coils around it. Then back in his hide for weeks. This time he was out, Pet Smart only had medium rats so he got two. I'm talking real nice to him getting him ready. That booger struck at me 3 times while I was opening the top to his aquarium. He ate the rats but when I went to lock down the top he struck again! Here I thought we were becoming friends. My son said I may be feeding him too often. I don't know if the snake is angry or just associating me with food too much.

 

[kiwigtx]

Largest of them all.... the Johnasaurus Cleesius.

 

[Cranky]

So I've been babysitting this huge python for my son. I thought the snake and I were becoming friends. When he came out of his hide I figured he was hungry and hunting. I would buy a large frozen rat and thaw him and while still warm I'd use kitchen tongs and dangle the rat. Within 2 seconds he would hit it lightning fast and throw 3 coils around it. Then back in his hide for weeks. This time he was out, Pet Smart only had medium rats so he got two. I'm talking real nice to him getting him ready. That booger struck at me 3 times while I was opening the top to his aquarium. He ate the rats but when I went to lock down the top he struck again! Here I thought we were becoming friends. My son said I may be feeding him too often. I don't know if the snake is angry or just associating me with food too much.

Make friends with a snake?? Now that's freakin funny! Everything is food to a snake when it's hungry and you are live meat.....

 

[Don Frelier]

We have dog owners who get attacked by their own dogs. Even a "dumb" dog would have more brain than a snake.

You really think a reptile can be trained to be friendly?

If it were me I'd throw the thing outside in the 14 degree weather today and grab a hot beverage for myself.

 

[Cranky]

We have dog owners who get attacked by their own dogs. Even a "dumb" dog would have more brain than a snake.

You really think a reptile can be trained to be friendly?

If it were me I'd throw the thing outside in the 14 degree weather today and grab a hot beverage for myself.

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.

 

[DeltaV]

I have a pair of very comfortable python boots, but these are not mine.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I don't get having a snake for a pet. A dog and a cat will show love and you can play with them, but what does a snake do other than eat and poop?

 

[QuickBpBp]

I don't get having a snake for a pet. A dog and a cat will show love and you can play with them, but what does a snake do other than eat and poop?

Apparently they try and eat you too…

 

[68BabyBlue]

My daughter and my granddaughters love their miniature ball python. My son in law refers to it as an "eating machine," and would be happy to turn it into a belt. Of course he's the only family member who has been bitten by it. The girls are savvy about caring for and handling their pet. They feed it on a regular schedule, never handle it when it's in hunger mode, and never put hands in proximity with food scent on them.

I follow the protocols, and find Stephanie is happier to seek the warmth of my lap than my cats. On the other hand, there's no way I would be playing that game with a 15 foot Burmese python. These things are efficient killing machines, and need to be respected as such.

 

[wahya]

Make friends with a snake?? Now that's freakin funny! Everything is food to a snake when it's hungry and you are live meat.....

Growing up in South Florida, my cousin and I used to hunt snakes and lizards together. We lost touch after he moved and a few years later, I visited him at his apartment. He had a Python that he bought at a local pet store. He kept the snake in a large cage and rats were just appetizers for it, so he bought a live Guinea Pig and put it in the cage. The snake not only didn’t try to eat the Guinea, it let it have free range of the cage. My cousin had to go out and get Guinea pig food.

 

[DeltaV]

Post in thread 'Random picture thread' https://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/threads/random-picture-thread.14619/post-913000444

 

[gkent]

Test it's friendliness ... let it out overnight !!

 

[Mopar Hunter]

Stick a leash on it and walk it.

 

[kiwigtx]

Growing up in South Florida, my cousin and I used to hunt snakes and lizards together. We lost touch after he moved and a few years later, I visited him at his apartment. He had a Python that he bought at a local pet store. He kept the snake in a large cage and rats were just appetizers for it, so he bought a live Guinea Pig and put it in the cage. The snake not only didn’t try to eat the Guinea, it let it have free range of the cage. My cousin had to go out and get Guinea pig food.

Sounds to me like your cousin's snake needed a Pan Flute.

 

[not so famous bob]

So I've been babysitting this huge python for my son. I thought the snake and I were becoming friends. When he came out of his hide I figured he was hungry and hunting. I would buy a large frozen rat and thaw him and while still warm I'd use kitchen tongs and dangle the rat. Within 2 seconds he would hit it lightning fast and throw 3 coils around it. Then back in his hide for weeks. This time he was out, Pet Smart only had medium rats so he got two. I'm talking real nice to him getting him ready. That booger struck at me 3 times while I was opening the top to his aquarium. He ate the rats but when I went to lock down the top he struck again! Here I thought we were becoming friends. My son said I may be feeding him too often. I don't know if the snake is angry or just associating me with food too much.

12 gauge target for me !!

 

[SlingLow]

I don't get having a snake for a pet. A dog and a cat will show love and you can play with them, but what does a snake do other than eat and poop?

I wondered the same thing, then realized it's really no different than fish in an aquarium or a bird in a cage (except some birds are noisy as hell). Maybe it's the challenge/satisfaction of keeping it alive. Anyway, if it bites, and tastes like chicken, it's dinner.

 

[SSmoothie]

Siegfried thought the same thing.

 

[eldubb440]

Y'know, my python boot is too tight
I couldn't get it off last night
A week went by, an' now it's July
I finally got it off an' my girl-friend cry

- Frank Zappa

 

[Hey-O]

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."

 

[Longknife]

The Snake