does my snake love me?

[Damion930]

I find some ppls mechanical misconception of animal spirits disturbing

But lol a snake is a snake

[infernalis]

Myself I don't find it disturbing unless it harms the animals or goes way over the top.

I have known of at least two that bothered me.

1. A young (nameless) lady who carried her snake in a small wicker basket that has a top cover everywhere she went. Road trip, Take the snake, shopping, take the snake. Her attachment to the snake was quite disturbing. She couldn't go anywhere without that basket.

2. Almost comical, but not really.

This one woman posted that she had gotten bitten on the side of her breast, when I asked how in the heck she got her boobies in the snakes line of fire, she said she put the snake in her shirt so it could find solace in her heartbeat.

Since I was the one who sold her the snake, I felt badly for the poor animal and rather wished I had not sold it to her. Ultimately she was evicted from her apartment and had to give all her snakes to an animal shelter, making me feel even worse yet for contributing to her madness.

Then when these things go horribly wrong, Like a boa or python biting someone in the face because they were "smooching on it" and the media gets hold of the story, the evil snake is always to blame, and our hobby suffers from it.

Honestly, puting your face right up in the snakes face is asking for trouble sooner or later, the snake my put up with it for now, but someday the snake will decide it's had enough, and the end result can get real ugly in a split second.

The snake may one day percieve your face staring directly into (him/her) as a predator moving in for the first bite of its new meal (your snake) and a strong defensive strike will result.

[Nafun]

When I'm holding my snakes, they're the boss. I'm just furniture. If they want to explore my face, they can explore my face (up to a point, I call for the wife immediately if one of them decides to wrap around my neck). But shoving anything into a snake's face is just asking to get bit.

[shaunyboy]

Originally Posted by Lankyrob

It can literally take milliseconds to black out with some pressure points, even martial artists can't resist them and they train all their lifes.

that was one of the rules when i taught judo mate

if you did not tap and went to the extent of getting knocked out you were asked to stay away from the club for 6 weeks

this was to teach folk it was not a game but a serious way of doing things

my judo teacher taught me that if you held a strangle hold on for 10 seconds then that could be the start of brain damage occuring

when you get into the 15 and 20 seconds range some form of brain damage will always result

we were teaching folk how to shut down the cartoid arterys.which immediatley stops the brains air supply

2 to 3 seconds your head goes fuzzy

3 to 5 seconds eyes blacked out and unconciousness prevailed

a snake constricting your cartoid arterys would get a much better grip than a human could and it takes very little pressure to hold the arterys shut

cheers shaun

[shaunyboy]

Originally Posted by infernalis

Myself I don't find it disturbing unless it harms the animals or goes way over the top.

I have known of at least two that bothered me.

1. A young (nameless) lady who carried her snake in a small wicker basket that has a top cover everywhere she went. Road trip, Take the snake, shopping, take the snake. Her attachment to the snake was quite disturbing. She couldn't go anywhere without that basket.

2. Almost comical, but not really.

This one woman posted that she had gotten bitten on the side of her breast, when I asked how in the heck she got her boobies in the snakes line of fire, she said she put the snake in her shirt so it could find solace in her heartbeat.

Since I was the one who sold her the snake, I felt badly for the poor animal and rather wished I had not sold it to her. Ultimately she was evicted from her apartment and had to give all her snakes to an animal shelter, making me feel even worse yet for contributing to her madness.

Then when these things go horribly wrong, Like a boa or python biting someone in the face because they were "smooching on it" and the media gets hold of the story, the evil snake is always to blame, and our hobby suffers from it.

Honestly, puting your face right up in the snakes face is asking for trouble sooner or later, the snake my put up with it for now, but someday the snake will decide it's had enough, and the end result can get real ugly in a split second.

The snake may one day percieve your face staring directly into (him/her) as a predator moving in for the first bite of its new meal (your snake) and a strong defensive strike will result.

no matter how many times i see that picture wayne it never stops me thinking " ouch,bet that hurt "

there are some crazy crazy people in this world of ours

cheers shaun

[Freebody]

its not a snake bite but this one would hurt like hell too :P its the lady who keeps throughing the poor dogs frisbie, one day he didnt appreciate it much lol

[red ink]

Never in my life would i ever let any of my reptiles get that close to my face snake (specially the new JCP) or otherwise. The main reasoning for this is I don't think they feel any attachment to me and only see me as a food source. My geckoes and BD display this as everytime I come near to do maintenance of the enclosures they perk up and look up expecting it to rain crickets, once they figure out I'm just cleaning they stay well out of the way.

A tag on the hand bears no phychological truama, it's understandable it's a snake after all; tag on the face and lets see if you still feel the same way about your snake.