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About my ball python....?
I have a two year old ball python and a 4 month old little girl. First off I don't not let them around each other at the moment till she is PLENTY old enough to understand how to hold and care for it. Anyway My mother in law (MIL) Is worried and called saying that a Ball Python on the news ate a little girl. (she does not understand that there are many different types of PYTHONS) Anyway she is all worried that the snake will hurt the baby or kill one of us! he is right now about 3 feet long. She is wanting to take the snake and let us "have it on the weekends or have visitation" which is not going to happen but I am putting together a packet about ball pythons and would like to have some stories about young children and snakes and if anyone knows the percentage of snake attacks compaired to dogs or some neat facts like that that would be great. Also what is the biggest thing that your ball python has ever eaten?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
ok dude the biggest ball python ca eat is a large rat and thats eat so unless you or a preson in your familly is the size of a rat you have nothing to worry about plus balll pythons only grow to about 3 to 5 feet long max!!!!!!!!!!!! plus ball pythons are reallt tame you would have a bitter chance of getting killed by a ball python then getting killed by a chuawa aka small dog
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Ok...well first off, as stated in other answers, the ball python could NEVER eat a human. Not even a newborn baby. But there is one thing I am concerned about that you should take into consideration when it comes to young children and snakes. Not just ball pythons, but ANY snake! If it is large enough, they could possibly kill a small child. How? Well...think about it. Pythons kill their prey mostly by constriction. They're also tree-dwellers, so you know they've got quite a bit of muscle. Now let's say a child is handling a snake unsupervised and the snake manages to wrap around the child's neck? I'm only stressing the fact that the snake COULD suffocate the child. I'm not saying it would, but could. Something to think about... :/
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Okay, first off, the snake will not bite or kill your baby. Bites are only when feeding time happens and it feeling defensive. Your snake cannot make any harm to your baby and will not try to kill it because that's impossible for a 3 foot snake to kill a baby. Just tell your mother in law that a ball python isn't a killer or a biter. Ball pythons are more likely to curl up into a ball when threatened than bite.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
The biggest thing an abnormally huge adult (6+ feet) could eat is a small rabbit. These snakes have never killed someone. I understand your situation though. I have family members that think I'm going to get killed by my ball python or red tailed boa - I keep telling them "There are TONS of different types of boas and pythons!" They just don't understand. I hope this helps.
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- 1 decade ago
my friend had a ball python [she is about 14 years old] and she started sleeping with it. after a week or 2 she noticed that something was not right with the snakes appetite and its appearance. she bought it to the vet and the vet said that the snake was "preparing for a big meal"
i personally think that you should keep the snake... but make sure it cannot get out of the cage.
