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Boys best friend - - a python?

today.reuters.com — A 6 meter python is the best friend of a 6-year old Cambodian boy. The news video from Reuters shows the boy riding and cuddling up with this giant snake.

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  • pbowler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Keep that snake well fed or that kid might be fast food.
  • tlmac59, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I may be more worried about the people who want "holy water" from the snake. . . .
  • uptown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Let me guess ... Sambath has plans to fly on an airplane in the near future?
  • Mooseknuckle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Very good point. Snakes are not "friendly", or smart animals at all. Reptiles are relatively stupid when compared to mammals. They can tell a human from a chicken, or goat, but it doesn't mean that they would never attack a human.

    I owned this exact type of snake (Burmese Python) for about 6 years, and watched mine grow from a hatchling to about fourteen feet (mine was a male, the one in the video was female). I, and my friends would hold it every day, and it was just as "chill" as the one in the video. I kept it well fed on rabbits and chickens, and it had a happy life.

    Then the time came when I had to sell it for personal reasons, and I sold it to a pet store for about 25% of what it was worth, because that pet store promised to take really good care of it. Well, they didn't. I went and visited my python 3 years later in that pet store, and it was anemic looking. Underfed, and never held. I asked the guy working if I could take him out of his cage, and he replied that the snake was mean, and would try to bite whoever took him out.

    So, snakes can unlearn their docility, and become intrinsically hostile, especially when not fed. I doubt the snake in the video will be a problem though, as he seems to get a lot of attention, and looks plenty well fed.
  • Aamir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2saw it on the news..
  • rderveloy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2...with a rendezvous with Samuel L. Jackson.
  • alej744, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I prefer QuickTime
  • artman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wonder if this is the same kid?

    http://students.washington.edu/mardavis/Pictures/Bath.JPG
  • EdLesMann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am glad things are going well for the kid and glad for an update! I have been hearing about this kid for several years now ( short google search returns articles for the past several years, like this one http://www.strangezoo.com/content/item/10121.html ).

    I think it is interesting how a "wild and dangerous" animal can be tame when in the right situations. I also think its interesting how that python cares for the kid and plays with it. Not exactly the first pet of my choice for my son...but maybe that's just me :-D

    Thanks for the update!
  • alej744, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ALSO FROM REUTERS:

    Bolivians make 6 metre long sausage
    (02:10) Rough Cut
  • sanzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ahhhh Pythons.... mans best friend
  • zonk3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hmm... all he needs is to start wrassle fighting or wearing black makeup and singing and he could have a real career for himself.
  • andrewhodel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1offtopic but I am pleased that all the major sites with videos are using flash these days
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This will not end well.
  • SterlingBen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Until tragedy struck
  • j3oomerang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thats chill
  • blueigloo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Four words: Holly *****

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