First, it’s not a Ball Python, which never attain “10 feet”.
It’ appears to be a Reticulated Python, best I can tell from the lousy photo
Boas and Pythons are intelligent and affectionate animals who can become very attached to their owners.
Due to they way they’re built, escapes are not that uncommon which is why responsible keepers have secure enclosures, but even then, mistakes can happen.
It’s funny.
I sincerely do not like cats but I would never offer to run over [and back up, repeatedly until my bloodlust is satisfied] just because I saw somebody’s cat out running loose.
Rather, I would try and help the cat I don’t like, get to safety, just because it’s the decent, human thing to do, because someone, somewhere, may love it dearly.
Cats are just as much a non-native species as that Retic is.
I reckon I just don’t have an irrational fear of cats like some do of snakes.
Some days, FR is spectacularly repulsive.
Today is one of those days.
Are you serious? Not mocking you, just voicing my incredulity.......
With that being said, I may be the only FReeper who actually encountered a Boa in the wild and witnessed an attack on my friend who was almost killed by one of these monstrous snakes.
Well, it wasn't really an attack and the boa wasn't really that big. When I first arrived in Panama in the Army, I was assigned to a company on Flamenco Island which was the furthermost island at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal.
There were a total of three islands connected by a causeway and ours was the furthermost out.
One day my friend and I decided to explore the rocky perimeter of the island closest to us and not far onto the island we encountered a baby boa about 30 inches long and when my friend attempted to pick it up (the wrong way) it turned and bit him.........He freaked out thinking he had just been bitten by a poisonous snake and was going to die and I laughed my butt off.............
Well, he survived and I was able to retain and cherish the memory of a friend being attacked by a legitimate, wild boa constrictor............LOL!
“Boas and Pythons are intelligent and affectionate animals who can become very attached to their owners.”
You’re saying snakes not only recognize different humans, but they feel emotion? Is there any communication?
I know dogs inside and out, and how to create a sense of pleasure in dogs I meet. How they exchange displays of openness and emotion, and communicate, and how to find itchy spots they get pleasure from having rubbed.
But what do you do like that with a snake?
My uncle had a boa that was lost in his neighborhood for almost two years. He got a phone call one day out of the blue from neighbors who lived a couple of blocks away to tell him they found his pet.