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I dont get either ? I breed large boids among other animals and one of my albino burms who then was 16 ft. was a docile quiet kitten tempered animal ( unless you looked like a rabbit ) and every day I would come home and open the cgae door and give her a pat and rub her and she was always sweet. One day I came home and went over to her cage and opened it up and before I knew what hit me that same albino burmese python that I hatched out of the egg had latched onto my hand and was wrapping me. She wrapped my arm, part of my chest, neck and part of my face, but I managed to yell out help and my youngest son who has been raised around these animals ( who was 12 at the time ) started peeling her off my face and neck and kept at her until she finally gave up and realized that I was not a rabbit !!! Now I was bruised and my right hand is scarred and I no longer even open the cage if I am alone. I have always practiced good handling and if I was going to move her I would have had both my sons there or a couple of friends who knew what they were doing, but I was not moving her. Now one twelve year old boy kept me from getting killed by my animal, why couldnt all those other people save that guy ? Answer: they were afraid of what the snake might do to them ...... self preservation in their eyes, plain and simple. I cant accept that all those people couldnt seperate a ten foot burmese python from a man. I have raised these snakes for many years and yes they are dangerous especially if you get a case of the stupids, but this snake was not that strong !!! That man died for no good reason in my opinion.
Gary Walsch
Sunshine State Reptiles