enjoyed the company of friends' boa constrictors. One of my best friends was a herpetologist.

She is Kali was a sweetheart loved to be held and she would sleep on me while I watched TV. In these pics she was around 7 feet long. She is a red tail boa.

To know a herpetologist. That is cool.

snakes and my friends' snakes, but with gentleness, and respect. All animals should be handled with kindness.

Women are often inherently better at this if they have not been taught to be fearful, but merely to show calm, non-aggressive energy in handling or approaching.

That said, I don't think I can condone this, no matter how habitually docile--at least not unsupervised...

One friend had a 10-foot boa named Ralph. We used him to show my own grade school kids (back in the 1980s) that snakes often have vestigial back feet. Then when my 7-year-old daughter told her classmates that she had seen and felt a snake's feet, they called her a liar, so we took Ralph to school to show them. The kids were all fascinated, and everyone wanted to pet the snake and feel his feet.

But all the teachers were crammed up against the classroom door, & some could only bear to peek in from outside of the door. There was quite a bit of shuddering going on by that door.

But the little kids were really into Ralph!

me unattended, no matter how docile, with a 20 foot Anaconda.

Treat your snakes with respect, calm and love.

I do wish they had taken an even remotely serious approach to their little video, though. I would have liked to have heard what they do to (assumedly) at least relocate the venomous snakes.