You’re way past me on snakes, Sal! Looks like I’ve got some research ahead. cheers!
I’m just wondering why, if that *is* the “legal definition” of domestication, it is *not* applied to snakes.
My boas and ball pythons would not last 10 minutes “in the wild”, yet all animal laws refer to them as “wild animals”.
Case in point, the infamous incident whereupon Alice, my pastel ball python, unlocked his enclosure and went missing for 3 weeks.
When I finally found him, he was trying to pound a house mouse to death *with his face*.
Having only eaten thawed mice, he had no idea what to do with a “real mouse”.
Hardly a “wild animal”, he.
:D