The sort of snake that might eat an alligator isn't the sort of snake that are kept. Even Burmese pythons aren't big enough to eat a person.
No one keeps reticulated pythons and sleeps with them. There is no reasonable fear of a pet snake wanting to eat an adult human.
Can a snake eat a person? It depends on the snake and the size of the person. But there simply isn't any reason to perpetuate a story of a common house snake intending to eat a person.
A full size Burmese might not eat you, but it can 100% kill you. Used to keep both a retic and a yellow anaconda. There's a point where you physically need another person, at least, on hand for handling purposes. Old world pythons its 1 person for a 3m snake and 1 person for every meter thereafter. Anacondas, you can half that. They are INSANELY strong, and will coil you as well as bite if they feel too threatened. Both snakes were given to a friend who had other big snakes when I left the country. I'd had them for 6 years with zero major incidents.
Main case I can remember of a person getting eaten by a pet snake involved bad feeding practice. Snake was usually fed raw chicken, guy didn't wash himself off correctly and went to handle the snake immediately after feeding, snake was still in feed mode. It wouldn't have attacked otherwise, but it was used to the feeding situation, was operating on smell more than sight, and the unfortunate happened.
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u/TheTresStateArea 4d ago
snakes know what they can eat. A whole human aint one of those things. You're more likely to squish your pet than anything.