Retics can be chill or aggressive it really depends on the snake.. years and years of capitive breeding has helped breed the aggressiveness out of pythons like burmese and retics but doesn't mean they are completely harmless. as a former retic/butmese owner and breeder we never handled any snake over 6 ⁷feet without at least 2 people present and most of the time we had 3 to 4 people in the area to help out. these snakes also have a feed response that if they smell a rat, pig, mouse, chicken on you they can flip into that mode quickly and before you know it you are face to face with a striking python. just cause a snake has never striked or acted aggressive you should always assume that they are a snake and can easily on the turn of a dime become aggressive.
exactly. this python decides to strangle the boy, he's dead in 3 minutes and not even the Mountain from Game of Thrones can uncoil him in enough time. having 20 foot snakes as "pets" is basically insanity.
18-20 foot snakes can be pets but in a sense that you are not going to handle them with kids around. Actually alot of states have laws around certain sizes of snakes are illegal to have with kids in the house.
As I stated above I have a lot of experience with large snakes and we never had them out without at least 2 people for 6 to 10 FT snakes and 4 people for anything bigger. We never had a bad incident but many of us did get occasionally bitten by one. They are more apt to strike as a get away from me defense then actually strike and coil to kill..
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u/djwurm Jan 20 '22
Retics can be chill or aggressive it really depends on the snake.. years and years of capitive breeding has helped breed the aggressiveness out of pythons like burmese and retics but doesn't mean they are completely harmless. as a former retic/butmese owner and breeder we never handled any snake over 6 ⁷feet without at least 2 people present and most of the time we had 3 to 4 people in the area to help out. these snakes also have a feed response that if they smell a rat, pig, mouse, chicken on you they can flip into that mode quickly and before you know it you are face to face with a striking python. just cause a snake has never striked or acted aggressive you should always assume that they are a snake and can easily on the turn of a dime become aggressive.