Ok, as a biology major, y’all need to chill. Snakes this big are incredibly docile. They have been bred this way. Furthermore, the person taking care of this animal could not properly take care of them if they did not feed them regularly and well. This child is in no more danger than if she was sitting next to a big dog.
Oh, and on snake yawning, the person above is wrong (SOURCE 1; SOURCE 2)
Please don’t demonize snakes people they’re amazing creatures and clearly this one means no harm
This is almost as bad as that shitty urban legend about the snake “measuring” its owner before eating them
Snakes are precious beans unlike the gross people above who demonize and spread false information about snakes.
Honestly snakes are better than tge average person 🤷♂️
Like you shouldn’t 100% trust a big animal around a child that small but I guarantee every single person shitting on this snake owner would trust a big dog in the same situation and NO MATTER HOW SWEET A DOG HAS ALWAYS BEEN a risk is always, always present. Definitely much more of a risk than a snake, which can go weeks or months between big meals without even feeling hungry again.
I wouldn’t leave the snake alone around the kid, just in case it squeezed too much without realizing, but it’s not that dangerous of a thing. I don’t think it could fit the kid’s head in its mouth anyway, let alone the shoulders.
Fun fact: there have been only a handful of instances of a constrictor snake killing a human, and one possibly-true story of one actually eating a human. Our shoulders don’t fit through their jaws, plus we’re too tall for them to easily grab by the head+neck like they prefer to catch prey.
Plus, most large constrictors are chill as heck. Unless you starve one or do something like poke it in the eye, it’s not going to bite you.
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