Originally Posted by Rakshasanyc

Everyone who keeps hots started somewhere. I would say (with the disclaimer that I don't keep venomous snakes myself) that you shouldn't keep venomous snakes until you are pretty skilled in keeping nonvenomous snakes. But I don't see why someone who has half a brain and a lot of experience working with i.e. ill-tempered ratsnakes and/or large pythons couldn't successfully keep any of the snakes mentioned above without getting bitten or killing the herp