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Originally Posted by For crying out loud
its not fair that either snake should be put down, the one was innocent and the other was just doing what millions of years of evolution tell it to, hunt.
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I think they have to be once they start to look at their human friends as potential lunch.
Certain snakes don't make the perfect house pet at the best of times, but once the snake has decided humans are prey, there's no way you can keep them.
A simalar thing happened to Jo's sisters friend.
The snake used to sleep next to her in bed
Then the snake went off it's food.
She took the snake to the vets, and when she came back a few hours later she was told they had put the snake down (didn't wait for her permission).
The vet told her that when the snake had been lying next to her at night, it had been meassuruing it's body next to hers, and it had been off it's food because it was starving itself so it could eat her
Snakes = not good house pets.
Anyone with children should be very selective when deciding on what pets are suitable in the home.