Not even with other reptiles, much less humans.

maybe not!

Some things just don't bear thinking about.

is there 24-7 to watch over them. Wild things figure out how to escape enclosures, that is a key part of their makeup. If the owners were afraid to stay in the same house with the snakes, why should they be allowed to subject their neighbors to all the dangers they try to avoid?

No, honestly, this is not funny.

Hate snakes

My snake could bite me but it couldn't strangle me.

when it bites you it's not poisonous.

I think I have an idea. I bet it wasn't a peanut allergy.

school class when a very large one got around her neck and started choking her. She was trying to clue the teacher help!!!, but he stayed against the far wall without responding. She got control and didn't die after all, of course, but she learned after that he had a serious snake phobia. He got her messages but was paralyzed with phobic fear as he watched this develop and couldn't move.

simply dangerous reptiles in it. In Florida, people are allowed to keep extremely poisonous snakes in their homes and only get inspected by the state once per year. Neighbors don't have to be notified. We had a situation near me where a cobra got out of it's cage and none of the snake's owner's neighbors knew that he had two very dangerous reptile in his house. People can cage Crits, Asps, Black Mambas, ect, all that is required is that they have a supply of anti-venom for the snake in their possession (that is part of the inspection requirement).

Let's say that a kid gets bitten by a strange looking snake in the kid's backyard, how is a parent supposed to tell hospital what type of snake it was and how is the hospital supposed to know how to get antivenom, even if it guessed the snake? Ultimately the Florida Department of Agriculture would be notified (it is responsible for inspections of the snake owner's home) and may notify the hospital, but with snakes like a Crit, an Asp, or a Black Mamba where venom is very fast and strongly acting, the kid could long be dead.

But the native ones living in my yard. Black, rat and ring neck being the most common.

But keeping them as some kind of freaky pet? No way.

I found an Eastern diamond back in my suburban yard about 10 years ago. Wrangled up a trash can, pushed it in. Put on the lid. Drove to a nearby state park and, be free Mr. Snake.

That said, around the same time was driving home from work through the groves that are now homes and saw a really big snake in the road. Stopped because I assumed it was a really big diamond back and wanted to see it and also chase it off the Rural 2 lane road so it did not get killed.

I was shocked it was some kind of python. No clue what kind. But obviously not a native to central Florida. I know my native snakes. Truck went into reverse, then forward, then reverse and forward again. I do not carry a hoe in my truck!

Did my little part to keep Florida free from invasive species.

I got 16 viles of antivenom that cost $80,000 - all paid by Medicare including a helicopter ride to the hospital. Got bitten on ankle and my leg still bothers me.

Anyway, when talking with the docs at the hospital, they said that most rattlesnake bites they treat are men bitten by their pet rattlesnakes.