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Pet python kills Florida toddler

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hey_moe

Retired SOH Administrator
I watched this on our local News and read about it too. I used to have a Boa is my teenager years but to have one this large in a cage that it could have got out along with babies in the house doesn't make a bit of sense. I am truly sorry to read something like this but the parents need to get something like this out of the house when babies are there. To read where the baby had bite makes on the head makes me sick to my stomach. >>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/02/2614514.htm
 
Any snake over two meters can kill a grown man if it really wants to... Those snakes shouldn't be handled by a single person no matter how docile it may appear to be. Leaving such a snake in a tank it can escape from is stupid, leaving it so it can reach kids is just plain moronic.

I have a little snake in my house, but even that's in its own room and in a securely locked tank. Don't want it getting out and strangling my cat! ;)
 
This is rediculous, and these poor people are paying the price. People tend to get complacent if noone reminds them of danger. It's almost like the human recognition of grave danger or an potential accident requires extreme prejudice. If there's no knowledge to base a prejudice upon, crazy things happen.

I've been keeping exotics for a long time, and I don't understand how people rationalize having evenn seemingly harmless examples around children.

The same people will talk about how sweet their pythons, pitbulls and occasionally even something like bears are, but that doesn't change the fact that people are hurt by animals with killer instinct all the time, and 'noone saw it coming'.

I don't have kids, but I do have bengal cats, venomous snakes and other exotics to include a raccoon. Children aren't allowed to be anywhere near the animals, and avoid children even coming into my house. My raccoon is the sweetest little creature you've ever seen in your life, and she'd "never hurt anything" but that doesn't mean that one day she won't claw my eyes out because she had a bad day. I'm an adult, and I made the conscious and knowledgeable decision to keep these animals around and put myself at risk. Children can't have a say, so why not keep them away?

People should be able to keep whatever they want whenever they want, but you don't need to have anything beyond conventional pets around children.

I'm so angry right now; I watched it on TV this morning and I'm even mad at these idiots for the whole world having to hear this story of tragedy.
 
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