The difficulties of being a cat

[dave himself]

Why would you risk the life of your cat, just put it out of the room

[GyGbeetle]

Originally Posted by dave himself

Why would you risk the life of your cat, just put it out of the room

I think I approach it the same way others would approach allowing their young children or babies around snakes. If you understand your snake's temperament, then you know when it's becoming stressed. After said slapping incident, I will not allow my snake around the cat, because I can tell he gets stressed by this one particular cat. Similarly, if you have concerns for a child's safety around a particular snake, you wouldn't subject that child to that snake, correct? All their introductions were in a controlled environment (2 handlers, firm grip on snake, and an out for the animal), so I hardly define this as "risk(ing) the life of your cat"

[dave himself]

I don't let children under a certain age or my small dog anywhere near my snakes, but then that's just me . I wasn't attacking you honestly. But I've seen one of my own snakes who we had for over five year's at the time, and had never shown any sign of aggression, suddenly turn on me, I just wouldn't trust any of my snakes as far as I could throw them, which wouldn't be very far . This is only my opinion though and I'm no expert