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how are you I'm Matthew and I'm gonna
teach you this okay hi everybody hi yeah
you wanna cuddle it see she wants to
cuddle
that's cute say hi to everyone say hi
there's a myth that people talk about
where they say that somebody well it's
like an urban legend it's either
oh I know someone who they slept with
their snake and then one day the snake
started laying in a line because it was
sizing them up and it wasn't eating and
it was waiting because it wanted to when
they eat the owner no let's let's think
about this so look at Sahara Sahara is
taller and longer than me
Sahara shed measures more than six feet
so you can see six foot mark I'm about
six feet tall and as you can see there's
two hairs like she is the first boa that
I've successfully bred and even when I
took her babies from her she didn't
strike at me she didn't show an ounce of
nastiness she's one of the snakes I know
that I can reach in and grab any time
and she's always gonna be a sweetheart
think about that
okay yeah Avery's saying that's wrong
snakes not gonna eat anyone right right
to be in this myth we have a snake
that's about as long as the person
sizing them up to see if they can eat
them even if she was to try and strangle
me with a couple fingers I can take her
off of me
no problem and she really is not
aggressive at all as you can see she's
quite nice and gentle this is my little
baby she's about 15 months old you know
look at the size of Sahara's Hadden and
my baby's head Sahara's ahead put him
handle my baby's head never mind me
though she is seven feet long she
doesn't have a seven foot long stomach
she only has a stomach about the size of
a foot foot and a half maybe she has a
strength to kill something that is about
a foot long so already Avery is too big
much too big for her to eat so I never
worry about my snakes eating my child or
even really hurting her even though lots
of people will be like you're crazy one
day that snakes gonna eat you there is
no way that she could fit me inside her
body she has a stomach about decides
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of a rabbit the the biggest thing I
think that she could probably eat is a
rabbit and even that she'd probably have
a hard time eating with us we can eat
about a chicken maybe anything more than
that we probably wouldn't even really
want to now it's the same way with the 7
foot boa this snake
she eats once every two weeks once every
three weeks sometimes and that's that's
all she needs she's not hungry she's not
aggressive she doesn't want to eat me
they don't think to themselves oh my
goodness there's a person I'm gonna eat
them or like I better stop eating
because I'm gonna save up space to
swallow someone it's not like that the
moment that they smell food the moment
that food is around them they'll want to
strike it so just like this just like
she's super sweet and stuff at the same
time like if I rub my hand in a rat
and then put my hand in front of her
face she's not gonna think to herself
hey it's my buddy Matt my buddy Matt I
am gonna just ignore him she will smell
the rat on my head and be like I gotta
bite your hand and it's because they're
not the most brilliant creatures well
they're amazing but they're not super
smart so when they smell their food they
go into feeding mode and then I want to
eat it there's a seven-foot boa for you
is she acting aggressive is she being
nasty she can abate me I go near her
face and blow at it Oh hot air no she's
just sweet so they don't size people up
and they don't want to eat you because
you don't smell like a rat hopefully
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