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The worst part is that people don't realize how they kill. They don't just squeeze to death. They wrap up and wait for you to exhale, then constrict so you can't inhale. Scary.
The Humane Society of the United States said including Wednesday's death, at least 12 people have been killed in the United States by pet pythons since 1980, including five children.
By my calculations, that makes one death every 2.5 years.
How many kids are killed by pet dogs each years in the US?
Good post!
The most recent official survey, conducted more than a decade ago, determined there were 4.7 million dog bite victims annually in the USA
Oh! Well that's alright then!
Alright for everybody except the families, friends and loved ones of the 2.5 people who've been killed every year since 1980. The difference between a 'pet' and a '12ft snake' is that you don't have to ensure special locks and enclosures for a 'pet' in case it gets out and kills your kids while you're sleeping.
Ideally? No, none at allSo no special precautions need to be taken with dogs or other pets? That sounds very irresponsible to me!
Ideally? No, none at all
I can't see why it could be construed as irresponsible, I played football with our dogs, wrestled with our dogs, playing wargames and took our dogs prisoner and invariably ended up sleeping in a big heap with our dogs, none of them ever tried to harm me.
If parents think that dogs bred for fighting make suitable pets esp around children, that's what sounds irresponsible to me.
It's a fine line, it's difficult telling people what they can and can't keep but it's obvious (to me at least) that when a 12ft python's hungry, it's not going to sit up on its back legs and wag its tail, it's going to slip out and forage for something suitable, instinctively at night when it can mostly avoid detection.
I blame the owner.
That's the second time you've made that claimIf so, then call me stupid right now...
That's the second time you've made that claim
read back through the thread and show me where I called you stupid
This is solely my opinion of what constitutes a pet, I've got no intention of calling you (or anyone else) stupid
Its perfectly okay to have a normal sized snake with a child, but a toddler and a 10+ ft long snake?!?
You don't see the irony in that?And I dont blame the snake, what it did is what it would do in the wild
They belong in the wild.