[Maceman]

People who keep snakes as pets need some serious mental evaluation.

I've had pet snakes since I was a boy (I'm in my 60s now). Currently I'm temporarily taking care of my daughter's ball python. Ball pythons are great pets -- requiring very little care, inexpensive to feed, docile, beautiful, slow moving and they don't get too large (most males don't get past 4 ft., and the maximum for a female is around 6 ft.

I agree the non-professional herpetologists who keep large constrictors, such as anacondas and burmese pythons, and poisonous snakes are nutty, as those animals are dangerous.

But small harmless snakes make fine pets for those that know how to take care of them.

I have been amazed my whole life at the extent to which most people are irrationally afraid of non-dangerous snakes. It would be amusing, if it weren't so sad.

BTW, here is a picture of my daughter with her pet ball python, taken 10 years ago. His name is Pyewacket

[EricT.]

My biggest problem with snakes is that they usually surprise me when I finally see them. Sneaky little devils. They jump out from under the fence when I’m weed-whacking. They’re usually dead before they hit the ground, but it still causes an nasty adrenaline rush.

[Salamander]

Funny how this happens just as the WV “injurious wildlife list”is being finalized for vote.
[further expanding the madness of the “Lacey Act”]

I think it was released intentionally to push the agenda.

The “public comments” was *just* reopened and now this “revelation”?

The timing is very suspicious.

[Salamander]

” His name is Pyewacket “

Bell, Book And...Constrictor?

;D

[FateAmenableToChange]

My youngest daughter kept a rock snake as a pet for several years. It was by far the easiest pet I’ve ever dealt with — keep it watered, feed it once a week or so, handle it every few days, and just watch it be cool the rest of the time.

Unfortunately, she also learned a lesson in responsibility and the consequences of not closing the door of the aquarium, so she no longer has a pet and somewhere in our walls there is very expensive snake skeleton. Besides that incident, the snake was a perfect pet.

[Hot Tabasco]

BTW, here is a picture of my daughter with her pet ball python, taken 10 years ago. His name is Pyewacket

Does it come when you call it and fetch balls?......LOL!