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20-Jun-04, 08:01 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: British Columbia, Canada | | | | Depends on the snake, but a person shouldn't handle a large constrictor by themselves. A snake that's over 12ft. could kill a person without even meaning to. There's a few precausions that need to be taken when handling large snakes.
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20-Jun-04, 08:15 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | | I've heard of a "rule", one person for the first three meters and an additional person for every meter thereafter. |
20-Jun-04, 08:20 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: North Brisbane Metro | | | | These retics and burmese would be a lot stronger then our aussie pythons I pressume so would you need more people to handle them then the rule fuscus mentioned ?
also is it true that a man in new york was killed by his burm or retic when he was about to feed him ?
Who do you have on call to help with your snakes ?
Thanks Kevyn
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21-Jun-04, 08:37 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: British Columbia, Canada | | | | My wife Meaghan is always around for help with snakes. She's great. It's also a good idea to have a spray bottle full of vinigar handy just incase of a bite and grab situation. With a 20ft. Retic though, I'll need more people than just Meaghan. My friend Rob is always ready to assist.
Not sure on the man being killed in NY. I'd say every time this happens, it is the owner's fault and not the snakes. You have to be very careful when working with giant constrictors. IMO they can be more dangerous than any hot.
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21-Jun-04, 03:03 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-03 Location: Brisbane | | | | I had a lesson in the strength of snakes the other night. I was moving house, and pulled my big female coastal (11 feet) out. We had to get her in this tiny bag, so I headgrabbed her. It took a full half an hour for my dad (6 foot, 120 kilo bricklayer) and my best mate (matchstick) to pull her off my arm. I was expecting a fight...but not the big of a fight...
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21-Jun-04, 03:44 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Melbourne, Australia Gender:  | | | | Any photo's of her in your album Sxe? |
21-Jun-04, 03:49 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-03 Location: Brisbane | | | Doesn't do her justice. I'm 6 foot tall... 
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21-Jun-04, 03:59 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Melbourne, Australia Gender: | | | | LOL she's a big girl Sxe! Kevyn on the other hand is probably saying "oh how cute , a yearling!" (got to get him banned LOL) - Is that a common size for a coastal Sxe? Sorry if this next one seems like a silly question, but are Brisbane carpets & coastals related? Because I've seen some huge Brisbanes and therefore can understand the length she is. |
21-Jun-04, 04:13 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: British Columbia, Canada | | | That's a huge Coastal. I didn't know they got that big. Very nice! I love big snakes, but I guess that's pretty obvious. Quote: |
Kevyn on the other hand is probably saying "oh how cute , a yearling!" (got to get him banned LOL)
| That's funny. I do have yearling Burms and a yearling Retic at that length.
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