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**SoftrermaBioniaSat** · 09-09-2008, 01:26 PM

Seems like one of the Pytas family of Asian ratsnakes. Entire family is non-venomous and harmless to humans.

As for the visitor in your house, you did right there, Mr Barrow. It is a reticulated python juvenile. Pretty common in Southeast Asia. Has a fairly bad reputation in the pet trade due to their unpredictable nature plus wild caught ones have a tendency to bite readily BUT I found one on the road in 2006. Turned out to be one of the most docile snakes I've ever owned or handled. People who had no interest in snakes could have sworn that the snake actually loved me.

Would coil itself around my arm and actually sleep there when I watched movies on the bed. Too bad she escaped a few weeks later. My fault because I was in the process of settling down in a new place and didn't have a proper lid for her tank.

Here's mine for comparison.

09-09-2008, 01:26 PM	#21
SoftrermaBioniaSat Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 404 Senior Member	Seems like one of the Pytas family of Asian ratsnakes. Entire family is non-venomous and harmless to humans. As for the visitor in your house, you did right there, Mr Barrow. It is a reticulated python juvenile. Pretty common in Southeast Asia. Has a fairly bad reputation in the pet trade due to their unpredictable nature plus wild caught ones have a tendency to bite readily BUT I found one on the road in 2006. Turned out to be one of the most docile snakes I've ever owned or handled. People who had no interest in snakes could have sworn that the snake actually loved me. Would coil itself around my arm and actually sleep there when I watched movies on the bed. Too bad she escaped a few weeks later. My fault because I was in the process of settling down in a new place and didn't have a proper lid for her tank. Here's mine for comparison.
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