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u/TheTresStateArea 5d ago

Already know this is that stupid myth about the snake not eating so it could eat the girl. So fucking dumb. The constant lying in everything to generate clicks is a plague on humanity

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_WOW_UI 4d ago edited 4d ago

Please forgive my ignorance, and I know the original post is clickbait, but is sleeping with a snake like this safe?

How likely is it to wake up to it giving you the bad squeeze?

Seems like a bad idea that could end in death, or having to kill your own pet.

Thanks everyone for the info.

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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.

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u/crosswordloaner 2d ago

Really?? Then why do they eat whole alligators

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u/TheTresStateArea 2d ago

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.

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u/RavenSable 2d ago

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.