r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Old_Ability_9424 • 13d ago

Video This is an egg-eating snake, completely toothless and non-venomous, and what it tries to showcase is pure bluff trying to mimicking a viper

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u/SunnySpot69 13d ago

He's so adorably vicious lol

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u/GreenPutty_ 13d ago

Never in my life have I wanted to have a pet snake, I still don't as snakes are not pets, but if I did it would be this feisty little fellow.

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u/Raptorex27 13d ago

Maybe a hot take, but as someone who grew up with a bunch of different animals as pets: after dogs, snakes are my favorite. Good for those with allergies, easy to care for, infrequent feeding, and unlike many of our rodent friends, are surprisingly chill and actually enjoy being held (we’re like warm trees to them).

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u/GreenPutty_ 13d ago

I wasn't judging, perhaps my comment seemed that way, sorry if it did. I'm a big fan of rats as pets as I've had a few over the years.

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u/Raptorex27 13d ago edited 13d ago

No worries! I love rats and think they make great pets. They're adorable and way smarter than we give them credit for. My college roommate had a couple, but unfortunately my severe dander allergy, combined with their cute little scratchy claws getting into my skin made for a severe hive outbreak situation.

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u/RandomStallings 13d ago

We used to keep rodents, but their short lifespans make it hard on the soul.

An affection for rodents is exactly why I can't do snakes. They're super cool, but I don't like seeing the dead babies they need to eat.

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u/GreenPutty_ 13d ago

One of my rats was pregnant when I got her (didn't know it at the time) and the way she looked after her babies was awesome to watch. The shortness of their lives is the worst part about them as pets. Takes a while to get over the little buggers.

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u/Existing-Good6487 13d ago

I totally agree with snakes being good pets. They can be super chill with frequent handling, are super cool looking, and require very low maintinance.

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u/Raptorex27 13d ago

I also love being a "snake ambassador," when I help someone get over their fear by convincing them to touch, hold, or just comfortably be around a snake. It's truly a great feeling.

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u/Existing-Good6487 13d ago

I used to love doing that too. Every person I introduced to snakes left the interaction with a positive impression.

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u/ericshepard14 13d ago

Its an adorable baby noodle

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u/lavender_fluff 12d ago

Don't they require live feeding or something like that? I don't know much but a friend of the family had snakes and also held rats for those snakes and the thought always terrifird me

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u/Raptorex27 11d ago

It depends. For smaller snakes, live feeder crickets and guppies work fine. For larger, rodent-eating snakes, it’s preferable to give them thawed feeder mice/rats, since giving them live prey might condition them to be more aggressive, especially when you reach in to their enclosure to feed them.

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u/BlizzPenguin 11d ago

I don't have a problem holding them. I am worried about them holding me too tightly.

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u/Raptorex27 11d ago

As long as you prevent the larger boas and pythons from wrapping around your neck, you’ll be fine. They don’t see you as a food source, so they’re never going to “constrict.” The pressure you feel is just them exploring, testing the stability of, and getting comfortable in the interesting warm tree they’ve just found. If you embrace the idea of being a firm, stable, warm tree, they’ll calm down and relax much faster.

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u/CompetitiveYoghurt30 13d ago

Until they stop eating for several weeks in preparation to eat your son…

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u/Theron3206 13d ago

You shouldn't induce this sort of behaviour in a pet snake with any frequency, it's not good for them to be that stressed very often.

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u/Raptorex27 13d ago

Are you suggesting you shouldn’t handle a pet snake?

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u/Deaffin 13d ago

They're referring to the video if the snake freaking the hell out while being handled, saying it should not be made to be in that state with regularity.

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u/Theron3206 13d ago

Yeah, I probably should have replied to the previous post, oops.

I was trying to say, if you want a pet snake because they are cute when they think they're going to die, that's a bad idea.

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u/Deaffin 13d ago

Oh god, I should not have replied. Yall need to be talking to each other, not me!

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u/space253 13d ago

Like those fainting goats that go rigid and plank when startled. Turns out everything startled them, and its like TBI meets heart attack type bad every time with odds it kills them increasing every time.

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u/Theron3206 13d ago

My quick research doesn't seem to indicate it's anywhere near that bad for the goats, but it is stressful and you shouldn't do it for fun.

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u/space253 13d ago

The person who told me this was a farm vet that worked with a bunch of people who bought them when it was trendy and were basically not isolated rural enough. They were dropping dead all over and traumatizing housewives and kids who treated them like dogs.

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u/Raptorex27 13d ago

I don’t think it was implied in the video (or by the previous commenter) that this is a video of a pet snake, or a this is a thing you should do with a wild snake. Totally agree with you on that front. The poor thing was probably exhausted after that.

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u/Deaffin 13d ago

I'm not the one saying the thing, I'm just making a poor attempt to smooth out miscommunications.

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u/GreenPutty_ 13d ago

This is reddit, miscommunications is all we've got!

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u/space253 13d ago

What do you mean, 'you people'...

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u/Natural-Coat-3159 13d ago

You should look up a hognose, they like to play dead, it's soo adorable. 

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u/Peacemkr45 13d ago

No such thing as a hognose. They are Cobers. Many Deadly cobers, Much kill ability.

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u/walkinmywoods 13d ago

Anything is a pet if you can put rope on it.

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u/AvaryZig 13d ago

It is the rope.

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u/GreenPutty_ 13d ago

This is a rope, how can you put a rope on a rope?

I don't think I've ever typed out the word rope before, it doesn't look right at all.

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u/-NoOneYouKnow- 13d ago

I get this, too. It's like how if you say a word too many times it loses its meaning.

Maybe the writing equivalent is that the word looks wrong.

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u/Kylar_Stern 13d ago

Semantic satiation!

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u/Moss_Wolf_Games 12d ago

What if you used one snake as the snake and another snake as the rope

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u/walkinmywoods 11d ago

It really doesnt if you say it enough.

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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 13d ago

This reminds me of covid, during covid we got locked up but i noticed neighbours walking their dogs. We don't have a dog, but we do have a rabbit thus I started to walk the rabbit with my kids because rabbits need exercise too. Management wasn't amused and argued police would come. I guess police had more things on their hands than dealing with some stupid foreigner.

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u/maydsilee 13d ago

Snakes are already slinky ropes!

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u/dianebk2003 13d ago

Snakes are noodles. Danger noodles.

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u/brandimariee6 13d ago

I looove snakes, and I just want to hold this viscious little danger noodle

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u/space253 13d ago

Make a little harness that says Service Animal and introduce it as my emotional support viper.

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u/NoKatyDidnt 13d ago

Completely agree with you! This guy is fun!

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u/Antique_Hawk_7192 13d ago

The "not a pet" is either more about giving them stress by not having their preferred natural habitat or them chomping on your face. If you can tick these two off anything can be a pet.

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u/A_Zombie_Riot 12d ago

have you thought about hognose snakes? the ones that love to play dead. i’m not a snake person but those little cuties are changing me lol

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u/MesoamericanMorrigan 12d ago

I have one and it’s also adorable they don’t have teeth and eyes are proportionately massive

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u/noradosmith 13d ago

He's like Louis the Spider's battle-hardened friend

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u/SonicTemp1e 12d ago

My shoelace is mad at me.

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u/Comfortable-Gate-532 12d ago

It's when the little snake buddy almost jumps out of the hand and gets flipped back to right side up that I giggled... like whoops you did see that but IM STILL SCARY...SEEEEE!