Jamie Guarino is the dad of three beautiful children on a mission to change the views of snakes. He's a professional snake handler and loves them as much as he loves his children. He always has a couple of giant pythons in his home and he says they are loving creatures. To prove his point he let his infant play on the floor with the enormous reptile and he said his baby wasn't in any danger whatsoever. The snake was only interested in playing with his baby and had no intentions of biting of strangling his child. This video is going to make your skin crawl!
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Respectfully, I think this dad is being irresponsible. He says it himsef in the video, and I'm not saying that out of fear, I'm saying it because I'm a mother. In the video Jamie says that snakes are better than dogs because there are fewer snake attacks than dog attacks and he's right. The reason is that more people have "domesticated" animals like dogs as pets than wild snakes. Even dogs which are somehow more advanced than snakes often respond to their animalistic instincts and attack. I don't even want to imagine what his snakes will do. They are reptiles!
I don't have a fear of snakes so I'm not judging the video out of fear like Jamie said, but I think he's completely out of his mind to raise children with pythons in his house. I don't buy for a second that they have a "loving nature" because quite honestly they are animals and they have no reasoning. I think Jamie is asking for trouble! He's teaching his kids not to be afraid of a very dangerous animal that is poisonous and can kill them. I'm assuming the ones in his house are safe, but what about the ones in the wild? What if those children go on a school trip in the woods and suddenly want to play with their friend snakes.
Jamie wants to create a snake zoo with his children so everybody can learn to love snakes as much as they do. Honestly, I think that's beside the point because it's not a question of loving. The point is that they are wild, dangerous creatures and he shouldn't say otherwise. His behavior is irresponsible towards his children and the public.
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