Wow. Really?

[razeraze]

A five foot 40 lb blood python could easily kill someone. The girth makes a huge difference in the amount of pressure it applies during constriction. An 8 foot anaconda squeezes with enough pressure to equal having a VW bug parked on your chest. Again I was almost choked out by a 7 foot 30+ lb red tail. Now maybe it is because all of my snakes are provided large cages where they actually climb and use their body to stay in shape, but it happens in fractions of seconds. Charger went from having part of her body on one of my shoulders, to having part of her body on both shoulders, to having much of her body against the sides of my neck in the time it took me to walk under a chin up bar (sides of my neck never around or near my breathing tube). Perhaps the really problem is the lack of proper caging turning snakes into lazy slugs. I have picked up 12+ foot long burms that were severely lazy and weak compared to charger when she was 8 feet. Now that she is almost 10 feet she is stronger than most 15+ feet burms I have held. But I am sure this will fall on deaf ears as do my warnings about large monitors, people for the most part need to learn from their own mistakes and not from others. So have at it and when it does happen and it makes headlines we can all shake are head and blame the keeper, while the media blames the reptile. I think all of you severely over estimate your strength against these apex predators. Who here has curled a VW beetle lately? because that is basically the only muscles you may have free to pull a constrictor off of your neck. No leg strength is going to help you, but just for giggles how many here could squat lift a VW? Didn't think so.

[morti]

"omg People Who Don't Agree With Me Are Stupid!"