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Is it safe to allow a ball python to wrap around your neck? Rest on your shoulders?
I am a new snake owner and I have always been a little hesitent to the idea of allowing a snake to wrap around my neck. I see people do it all the time; however, my better (or worse?) judgement tells me it's probably not the smartest thing and best to be avoided.
Is this fear justified? Is there any ongoing statistics of ball python related deaths?
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Re: Is it safe to allow a ball python to wrap around your neck? Rest on your shoulder
none that i know of. would have to say impossible for a grown mentally capable adult.
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Re: Is it safe to allow a ball python to wrap around your neck? Rest on your shoulder
any snake over 4 ft is capable of squeezing the neck to the point of suffocation. I for one will never put a snake on my neck unless i have more than one person just encase.
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Re: Is it safe to allow a ball python to wrap around your neck? Rest on your shoulder
just be aware you have a snake around your neck, ive never heard of somone being injured by doing that but i would never do it with a burm. =D
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Re: Is it safe to allow a ball python to wrap around your neck? Rest on your shoulder
A ball python is not going to be able to strangle you to death, but you shouldn't really make a habit of putting snakes around your neck. there are some snakes that can easily strangle a full grown adult human so it is better to just not do it at all.
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Re: Is it safe to allow a ball python to wrap around your neck? Rest on your shoulder
I don't think there's been any deaths, although I did read a post from someone on here saying that a man fell down the stairs, got knocked out, and died because the ball python got scared and constricted on his neck.
We put ours around our necks. They've never gotten too tight, and when they do get uncomfortable for us we either readjust them or wrap them around our arm instead.
If you aren't comfortable with it, don't do it. I have very very long hair and one of our BP's loves to play in it. Another one will wrap himself loosely around our necks and hang like a necklace. The third one would rather be a bracelet.
It's all what your comfortable with.
ANDREA
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Re: Is it safe to allow a ball python to wrap around your neck? Rest on your shoulder
Originally Posted by capitalB
none that i know of. would have to say impossible for a grown mentally capable adult.
How is it impossible that a fully grown ball python couldn't strangle you to death?
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Re: Is it safe to allow a ball python to wrap around your neck? Rest on your shoulder
Originally Posted by EvesFriend
How is it impossible that a fully grown ball python couldn't strangle you to death?
A single human will almost always be stronger then a full grown ball python.
Also, ball pythons aren't really the type of snake to kill out of fear. There is not one known death caused by a ball python.
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Re: Is it safe to allow a ball python to wrap around your neck? Rest on your shoulder
Originally Posted by Kaorte
There is not one known death caused by a ball python.
Did anyone ever find out where that story came from about the guy falling down the stairs? Since I've been a member I've been going back in the forum pages. I'm up to page 150 and didn't see where the story originated.
I'm just curious cuz it sort of sounds like an urban legend.
ANDREA
1.1 Normal Ball Pythons - Charlie and Lucy
1.1 Red Tail Boa - Arcadia and Hades
0.1 Blood Python - Allison
1.0 Diamond x Jungle Carpet Python - Diomedes
3.0 Cats - Rhett, Diesel and Nabisco
1.0 Gerbil - Moo
1.0 Field Mouse - Waddles
RIP Rainie Girl. I'll see you at the Rainbow Bridge.
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanual Kant
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Re: Is it safe to allow a ball python to wrap around your neck? Rest on your shoulder
Originally Posted by Charlie And Lucy
Did anyone ever find out where that story came from about the guy falling down the stairs? Since I've been a member I've been going back in the forum pages. I'm up to page 150 and didn't see where the story originated.
I'm just curious cuz it sort of sounds like an urban legend.
It either is a myth or it was caused by a snake other then a ball python.
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