I understand. Note that I didn’t say you are a irresponsible yahoo. If you own one of those reptiles, I am going to guess you treat it with respect as the potentially dangerous animal that it is.
That said, horses and cows aren’t predatory animals, and fatalities due to encounters with them are very likely accidental or incidental, plus the number of encounters between people and cows/horses are likely on the order of tens or even hundreds of thousands to one.
In the hands of a trained person, I don’t have a problem. In the hands of people who own them as a symbol like many who own pit bulls, I do have a problem.
I do not have Burms, no, but know many who do and even more Retic owners.
Responsible people, all of them.
My heart belongs to Boas, although I do have a few Ball Pythons and one Snow Corn Snake.
FWIW, my life has been spent around “scary beasts” like Dobermanns and large constrictors but it was one, barely bigger than a pony horse, who nearly killed me, just 10 years after Shetland pony out me in the hospital.
I grew up on a farm and know full well how dangerous livestock can be, from milk cows ‘accidentally’ goring you when they swing their heads to flick away a fly, to trampling you or crushing you against a barn wall to vicious sows and flighty horses.
Horses, cattle and pigs can indeed be “predatory”, if you want to describe it that way, and attack on purpose.
Not sure why pit bulls entered the conversation and I don’t know anyone who owns snakes as a “symbol” of anything, so I cannot address that aspect.
Any animal is potentially ‘dangerous’.
Only a fool ever forgets that a critter is a critter.