Posted on 07/21/2021 11:33:22 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Monday night, drivers along Theodore Street in Joliet got a shock, when a 10-foot long ball python slithered across the road, stopping four lanes of traffic.
...The owner, who did not say how his pet got out, took the pet home without further incident.
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Yeah, Buzz Butt is here in his forever home. Got attached to that little guy real fast.
And I did not see that coming.
:D
/called it!
Shush! He is a well mannered gentleman.
I know.
And I also knew he had landed there forever, from the second you mentioned him.
;)
My first ball python would take naps laying up against me for the heat while I watched TV. As soon as I got in from work I cracked open a beer and he was wrapped around me. Have had a few snakes and a few tarantulas but not allowed any more. My wife now won’t allow them in the house.
Yep. I’m not complaining though. He’s made himself at home.
Does he have....a cottage?
;D
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!
Awww, bummer.
I would be so unhappy, if I didn’t have a few around.
:(
yeah... i just like running them over...
Ever had to work with saw-scaled vipers?
There is 140lb of sweet and gentle Rottweiler asleep at my side while I type this. Once in awhile I run into someone who’s scared of them and minutes later he’s charmed them out of it. Mongo is a great ambassassador for the bread.
Breed.
In the wild, these animals will defend themselves if they feel threatened. It’s just a natural response.
In captivity, yes, they are very capable of affection (to the degree they are capable of as reptiles) and never underestimate their intelligence. People make the mistake of falling for the reptilian brain crap. The problem with that is the studies done were flawed by doing a direct structural comparison between mammalian and reptilian brains. That is currently being debunked through new studies and behavioral experiments.
It was your friend who initiated an attack on the snake. If you believe you have the right to self defend, the snake deserves the same. So no, your friend wasn't attacked.
Well, that was a tantalizing yet anticlimactic tale!
:D
Yes, they get attached and know their people.
Pinky, who used to go to biker events with me, before we simply stopped having them in the area, anymore, would chum up to everyone and let himself be carried and hugged until he got weary and then he’d slither his way back to me, often going from one person to another until he reached me.
If we were there for more than a couple hours, he would crawl into his backpack and nap for a while, coming out refreshed and ready for more adulation from the crowds.
One particularly long day, he got tired but his backpack was in the bike so he looped himself through the armholes of my vest and slept like that, sort of like a hammock, for about an hour, as I continued to walk around.
There’s a lot more to snakes than you think.
So sad that you’re so terrified of them.
No, I’ve worked with Gaboon vipers, cottonmouths, eyelash vipers, copperheads, timber rattlesnakes, western diamondback rattlesnakes, and one or two others. I own a WDB currently. You can see some of the photos of some of my snakes at www.instagram.com/mwmeadorphotography and www.instagram.com/mwmeadorphotography_snakes
Wow!
Haven’t seen you on FR for a long while!
As you know, I’m the one with Dobermanns.
One is a great ambassador, the other is a great ass biter.
:D
I cannot stand that “reptilian brain” stuff, particularly when it comes to brain size being the presumed determining factor. Pseudoscience at its worst.
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