By Lisa Goudy
Some people find snakes cool. Some people find them disgusting.
For the most part I fit into the latter
category. Snakes, in my opinion, are disgusting. Sometimes I’ll admit
they are kind of cool to look at, but mostly they gross me out.
While in South Dakota a few weeks ago I worked
up the courage to touch a big snake at a show at the Reptile Gardens,
located on the same road that leads to Mount Rushmore. Admittedly it
didn’t feel as disgusting as I believe snakes are. But seeing reptiles
in a zoo and learning about what they can do is totally different than
hearing or being affected by what they can do.
We need to have the utmost precautions around
dangerous animals, but before we jump to any drastic conclusions, we
need to have all of the facts.
On Monday, four-year-old Noah Barthe and his
six-year-old brother, Connor, were discovered dead in an apartment while
on a sleepover in Campbellton, N.B.
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National Post article: "'Very, very strange': Snake handlers, experts baffled by New Brunswick python attack"
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