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:No liability issue - every single page of Wikipedia has a link to [[Wikipedia:General_disclaimer]] at the bottom. True and/or verifiable? I don't know. I think you did the right thing to move it here. [[User:FreplySpang|FreplySpang]] [[User talk:FreplySpang|(talk)]] 01:27, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
I don't agree with removing this section and merely discarding it. I think it should be investigated and if found correct, returned. My reason is that if someone is bitten by a pet snake (or in some circumstances a wild one (-- especially when snake-catching) and does not know these methods beforehand, they are liable to panic and, despite preferring not to, use brute force against the animal injuring it unnecessarily, thoughand theyprobably would prefer not to dothemselves, so if possibleunnecessarily. If the methods do work, they are easy to learn, prepare for, and use.
As an example of what I mean see the video at
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1864193870393450993&sourceid=searchfeed
This is a group of policemen who are trying to manhandle a large anaconda (not reticulated python) into a cage. when oneOne is badly bitten and another is bitten mildly. Had they come pre-prepared with a bottle of alcohol (ethyl, hopefully rather than methyl, but possibly also isopropyl if it works) to deal with eventualities like what happenedthis, the release of the man's arm would have been easier and the snake less beaten up. Throwing mud over it's eyes before picking it up, and keeping on applying additional mud to blind during the carrying, might have averted the bite in the first place and not harmed the animal.
Years ago when I lived in Singapore I saw preople next door to where I lived catch a twelve foot python in the park (across the road -- I think they may thrive on the rats in the open storm drainage ditches there). To avoid being bitten, they held it with a noose on a stick, very heedless of its suffering, jerking it up in the air by its neck to show people who were curious, and eventually selling it in some sort of snake market where its bile or somethngsomething was to be used as tonic. I would have felt better if they'd handled it by hand. If knowing the above information would have made them more willing to do this, then it should be in Wikipedia if valid. It was twenty years ago and I still feel awful for the snake.
Are there really fifteen times more reticulated pythons than people in Indonesia? This strains credulitybelief [[User:74.103.29.11|74.103.29.11]] 07:18, 28 January 2007 (UTC)when the population is about 250 million... that's 3.7 billion pythons, or about 1,950 per square kilometer. Even with python farming and the relatively large amount of non-farmed land in the country outside Java, I doubt this. Assuming three years (?) to slaughter, we're talking about a billion python skins per year -- a couple of wallets for virtually every single man, woman, and child on earth! Can anyone cite a reasonable source? [[User:FurnaldHall|FurnaldHall]] 07:16, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Mike da Slug [[User:74.103.29.11|74.103.29.11]] 08:58, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
== 'pet' retics ==
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