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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Nov 10, 2022 14:36:35 GMT
When I was about seven I went to the Zoo with my mom, and we had seen many different animals: tigers, lions, lizards, baboons, straws, parrots, butterflies, crocodiles, etc - too many to remember many of them. But I did remember visiting a serpentarium - the aquarius with snakes. A guide the biologist proposed us to pet a python. I was too scared, so was my mom, but near us was a boy (quite elder, than me) who didn't, and he pet that non-poisonous snake. When we were getting home I got an idea and told about it to my mom. The idea was - to get a leash (kinda dog leash) and to get on that leash on a snake to make her guard home. Since that my mom not once remembered that story for us to get smile. But I wonder what if to make a snake to guard home? This isn't a bad idea, because none of thieves would ever dare to intrude into the house to steal something; and if they tried, nobody would be envying their fate.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Dec 6, 2022 9:48:08 GMT
You pet a python? I'll do you one better. One year when I was a wee lad staying with my grandmother at Myrtle Beach for the summer, we went to a local reptile zoo/alligator farm called "Alligator Adventure". I loved that place because it is the closest thing on earth one can get to at the moment to visit Jurassic Park. As you walk through the place, fenced off and surrounding you on both sides, there are pens with hundreds of monstrous alligators. I don't know what they are feeding these gators but they have all grown to the size of dinosaurs, big, bulky, fifteen feet long on average much larger than the ones of the same species you find in the wild here. There are many exhibits in this park showing many exotic reptiles, black mamba snakes, pythons, lizards, turtles, komodo dragons, saltwater crocodiles, rare albino alligators that can only be found in the bayous of Louisiana, and the pride and joy of the park, what was at that time the largest crocodile in captivity, a horror movie monster, a veritable Godzilla named Utan.
In one place in the park, they have a place where a crowd can sit on risers and a kind of stage where they put on shows with the reptiles mostly with the baby alligators and folks can volunteer to take part in the show. Well, me and my grandmother both sat down and watched it, and near the end of the show the host of it said, "for the next thing we're fixin to do. We're gonna' need someone whose really brave." Well, I'm pretty brave so I raised my little hand, and wouldn't you know it, I was picked! So then, the guy pulls out a python and I'm like, "W-what are you going to do with that python?" The man then wraps the python around my neck! Then he proceeds to give a speech about how the python (or whatever kind of constrictor snake it was) squeezes tighter every time its victim takes a breath, and sure enough, it did! So, you pet a python, I got constricted by one. Personally I don't know how they were allowed to do that as it's just asking for a lawsuit. I've never heard the idea of using them as a guard dog. Really, I think one of those giant gators would do the job a bit better.
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