TTTT;4098112; said:
Well duh, there are 80 million guns owned here in the US. How many venomous reptiles are owned here? Maybe a couple thousand.
How many HOT herp keepers out there?
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Well duh, there are 80 million guns owned here in the US. How many venomous reptiles are owned here? Maybe a couple thousand.
The biggest problem i have seen in hot snakes is people getting too use to it and slacking on taking the proper precautions. I have kept several different kinds of rattle snakes, some very mean and some hand tame (and i still would not pick it up without tongs or a hook). If you are so incline to keep a hot start small and understand that you are not invincible and it is very likely you will be bitten. If you can not afford antivenom then at the bare min call your local hospitals and see if they have it for your breed of snake, if not you might want to think about a different one. Keeping hot's can be a very cool hoby but please alwase use extreme caution and never lose respect for the snake you keep, your life may depend on it.
does hot refer to any venomous snake or does it also apply to snakes that had their venom glands removed? i think i heard you can do that on animal planet but im not sure. as a start, you should proly do that. i had snakes before, they get boring lol
szymon328;4098588; said:
Hot is any venomous animal.
I don't really like venom removal/venomoid, I think if I kept hots I would let them keep their venom.
there may only be a few in captivity but how many do you think are in the wild in the US that still pose a threat to humans. Most people are not killed by a gun in there possession and most venomous bites do not occur because it was in that persons care but rather because the happened upon it.Vicious_Fish;4098559; said:
I will have to agree that guns are much much more dangerous than any venomous snake.
I used to keep 4 different species of socal rattlers. Red diamondbacks, Southern Pacifics, Westerns, and Mojave greens. BEAUTIFUL snakes IMO......
szymon328;4098588; said:
Venomoids should still be considered hots since most of the time the removal is not done properly and these so called venomless snakes can still produce enough venom to seriously hurt you or even kill you. I will try and find a video about this for you. It is of a venomoid that is being milked to show that they are still very hot...
snakeguy101;4098621; said:
And I have to disagree. Like I said before you're comparing something you can control to something you can't. It's like comparing apples to oranges. If my gun is not in it's safe it can't crawl away, hide behind a wall for days at a time and then come out one day and shoot me while I'm watching TV. What do you think will become illegal first? Guns or owning venomous reptiles? I think you already know the answer to that one.
