Seeing possibly harmful animals playing good with kids is typically cute. How many dog people have looked at pictures of big types like German shepherds, Doberman pincers, Great Danes, and so on and have been slayed by the cuteness?

Obviously, some cat people do not get it and believe the child is in jeopardy, when actually that family dog is the youngster’s guard.

I bet both canine and cat people would certainly have a problem with this. And in fact, thousands on the internet have currently revealed their dismay. And I need to agree with them.

The Family Pet

In this case, the family animal is a snake. A 13-foot Burmese python to be specific. His name is Nay-Nay. Directly, I think his name should be No-No. As in this animal is a huge no-no.

Jamie Guarino, a 34-year-old father from White Lake Michigan increased Nay-Nay from when it was a little much more in size than a little rubber band.

Guarino set off a storm when he shared a video of the python playing with then 14-month-old Alyssa. It was uploaded to the Barcroft television channel and features Nay-Nay slithering over Alyssa while he speaks with both little girl and snake in a baby voice.

Yes, horrifying on so many levels.

Guarino is a expert snake trainer and according to abc7News he claims to have been a “snake charmer” because he was a teenager. For those not aware of the term, Wikipedia has the complying with to say regarding snake charming.

” Snake lovely is the practice of appearing to hypnotize a snake ( usually a cobra) by playing and waving around an tool called a pungi. A normal performance may likewise consist of dealing with the snakes or performing other relatively dangerous acts, as well as other street performance staples, like juggling and sleight of hand.”

” When people see this clip they mainly respond with worry or negativeness. And I don’t recognize why.” He then continues, “This is an embedded worry, and I believe people are brainwashed.”

And to those who he feels are brainwashed, he has a message.

” To those of you who might see this video clip as irresponsible or harmful, please take a minute. Don’t judge based on fear or something you do not understand. Snakes can be, and are, loving animals.”

He may really feel so, however many viewers did feel he was irresponsible in his activities, and rightfully so.

Allow’s take a minute and different feelings from fact. Unlike dogs and other large animals that have actually been bred to be pets– or at least bred to be around people, that is certainly not the situation with Burmese pythons.

Right here’s what National Geographic needs to say about this snake.

” … generally docile personality …”.

” Attacks on trainers, sometimes deadly, are not unusual.”.

” Burmese pythons are predators, surviving primarily on small mammals and birds.”.

” They kill by constriction, grasping a victim with their sharp teeth, coiling their bodies around the animal, and pressing until it suffocates.”.

Little Alyssa Guarino was a “small mammal” when this video was taken. So it’s not unusual that so many took exception, in spite of Guarino’s assertion that,.

” My daughter was absolutely in no danger.”.

There have actually also been much publicized incidents in the last couple of years where pythons finished killing youngsters. In one situation, reported on by the New York City Times in 1996, it shows up the snake mistook it’s owner for food.

” A 13-foot python, kept as a pet in a Bronx housing project by two teen-age brothers that wanted to make careers out of caring for reptiles, killed one of the brothers yesterday afternoon, possibly having actually mistaken him for food.”.

In one more, much more recent case in 2013, 2 young kids in Canada were killed. National Geographic reports,.

” The deaths of 2 young kids found strangled in New Brunswick, Canada, early Monday early morning have been blamed on a snake that escaped from an unique animal store located beneath the apartment where they were remaining.

Police speculate that the snake left its enclosure at the Reptile Sea store sometime overnight, got into the ventilation system, and after that into the upstairs apartment where the young boys, apparently bros aged 5 and 7 years of ages, were staying over with the son of the store’s owner.”.

Guarino attempts to skew these facts with some facts of his own.

” If you look into the facts there 95 percent much more dog attacks than snakes.”.

Perhaps because most people wouldn’t get close enough to a snake for it to attack?

Whatever his reasoning in uploading the video, things really did not go quite as Guarino prepared. The Oakland Free Press states that the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office has asked the Division of Human Resources to release an examination into whether his children were being ignored or abused.

What do you believe? Are pythons truly just cuddly animals that are misunderstood?

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