re: What is more dangerous: Leaving your child with a pit bull or snake?

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While I'm a huge snake defender and have several snakes (not that size), I wouldn't put my children in that position. It's akin to rednecks who take picture of their toddlers with a beer in their hand. A guy I know kept sticking his 8 ft. boa in his wife's face telling her to kiss it, and it bit her in the face. She was not amused. While snakes are cool pets, you have to give due respect to their capabilities.

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Why do you have snakes as a pet? What do you do with them? Look at them?

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snakes are cool pets

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And while it may not be at this very moment, I don't doubt for a minute that this snake isn't sizing up that little girl for a future meal.....

I don't mean to imply that they are doing the same act physiologically as we do when yawning, but it does appear random. My snakes' feeding habits are very regular. When they are hungry, they'll hang from a perch in a specific S-shaped position, like a coiled spring. Or if they are not in a stalking position and are elsewhere in the cage but think they are getting fed when I approach the cage, they'll start moving down into position. But their "yawns" happen during random lazy behavior patterns, so it doesn't always coincide with preparing their mouth for a meal.

Likewise, I don't think it's an overheating issue. My cages are equipped with radiant heat panels controlled by digital thermostats, and the temperatures adjust for night time cooling. You'll see their "yawns" during these cool night periods as well.

While certainly they do it for those reasons as well,, often I'd characterize it as random stretching..

I vote snake. At least I wouldn't need a new couch after the deatth