Unless you live in the same apartment complex as Jeff, who keeps his hot snakes in unsecured tupperware and has a history of losing pets like his servil.
Yeah maybe educators, zoos and research institutions. Frankly there are no intelligent people who keep snakes that have medically significant venom as pets just for the hell of it. Maybe an exception for native venomous stuff like rattlesnakes but most of those are an order of magnitude less dangerous than a taipan. And frankly aside from bigger cottonmouths and eastern rattlesnakes, not really that likely to kill a healthy adult male. If you look at snake deaths in the US it's mostly old people, kids, and the occasional retard keeping an exotic venomous snake.
I have a limited amount of room and have been thinking about getting a snake and am leaning towards a children's python or any of the small python species really. Milk snakes and rosy boas are also pretty popular on the smaller end. African egg eating snakes are cool but you IDEALLY need a source of preferably fertilized quail eggs which makes it rough for most. If I had more room I'd get an indigo snake but they get fairly large.
I watched it. He repeats a bunch of unfounded rumours, says “I’m sure the guy cared about the animal he’s just struggling” (despite the fact most died in his care and were in shit physical health) and then spreads a complete and utter fabrication of a Kentucky anti-venom facility. His version is they basically said Jeff was reckless for free handling and deserved to die, denied him anti-venom, said it’s wrong to keep it for their staff because Jeff needs it now. His genius IQ buddies then denounce them, sayings it’s wrong to ”deny someone their father, their brother, son etc by killing him.” Chandler says this is an example of the malice in the so-called reptile community, that it’s old ego.
Do an image search for "rattlesnake bite." You will probably survive a bite, but it will involve horrific swelling, necrosis, and general unpleasantness. The only venomous American snake I'd even think about keeping is a Copperhead. That bite won't be pretty, but I'd have all my fingers when it was over.
Free climbing is ultimately suicidal, but they don't hurt anyone but themselves really. This asshole was risking escaped snakes killing other people, much like a shit bull owner who lets his murder dog roam free.
That guy is a fucking hero.
Why do these people hoard snakes to the point they're forced to keep them in racks in shit like Tupperware where the snake can't even stretch out to full length or explore an environment and is basically existing in sensory deprivation? They may often like to spend a lot of time curled up under something, but that doesn't mean they never want to stretch out or move around.
They'd also satisfy someone who wants a snake that looks venomous. The only snake I ever killed, and felt bad about, was a milk snake, because it looked venomous. It looks a lot like the actually deadly coral snake.
an aside but thats kinda why i dont like these arguments because if everyone else has to foot the bill its not really just your decision now is it? unless he had said "okay by my principles in this social contract i will simply die as ive made my choice" but thats never what happens and arguably case by case shouldnt even be what happens.
Anyone that keeps venomous animals as a hobby isn't right in the head. Gaboon vipers are cool as fuck and they look like living skeletons, but bringing this animal to a home is complete retardation and an accident waiting to happen. These vipers aren't known to be aggressive but guess what? Inland taipans aren't either. They can still bite ffs.
It's very bold of you to assume that anyone knows what that is. I would recommend a worm lizard, though. Sheltopusik for the win!!!!!!
Most snakes have a breeding population going back to the 60s/70s a king cobra can be had for $400.
Also strict liability on owners who keep these snakes. And while that's already the case for civil liability, it should be criminal, too. If your murder dog or your murder snake kills someone, you should be charged as if you had done it yourself.
Can you make a example? It's a fascinating topic but I feel like I only 50% grasped it by reading this paragraph
I don't have a lot of snake specific advice but I've put together a few vivariums. My understanding is that snakes tend to be really rough on plants so you have to be plan around them being retarded and uprooting and smashing everything less firmly grounded then a rock half buried in the dirt. Also proper grass is really hard to get going in anything less than full natural sunlight although I know there are some "grass like" plants people use to get around that.
