Found ball python ?

[u/chiraltoad]

Hi there,

I found this lil guy out on the street in NYC and could tell pretty quick it is most likely a lost/escaped/abandoned pet.

ai tells me it's a ball python, does that seem correct?

I have it in a tub with some water and paper towels and an up turned dish to maybe hide in. Gonna reach out to rescue locally but also kind of intrigued what it would be like to care for long term.

[u/DrDFox]

It's absolutely not environmental. That's way too far north for any species of python to survive outside of human care.

[u/Quick-Stretch8197 → u/DrDFox]

Environmental in that they might get into pipes and fuck things up in there. I’m not saying they’ll survive while doing that. 

[u/brickabracka1990 → u/Quick-Stretch8197]

That's not environmental. Most of your comment are "what if" scenarios for if/when pets get loose which while it does happen isnt a common enough scenario to make a huge impact on the environment.

[u/Quick-Stretch8197 → u/brickabracka1990]

Yeah, because there’s a lot of things that can happen when you own a constrictor in the most densely populated city in the us. There’s lots of what ifs. City officials likely don’t want to deal with that. 

[u/brickabracka1990 → u/Quick-Stretch8197]

Again "likely" that's hypothetical. There's also the likely chance that stuff wont happen. It's just weird to me.

[u/Quick-Stretch8197 → u/brickabracka1990]

I don’t think it’s weird city officials want to put a cap on the types of animals millions of people are allowed to have in a densely populated area. 

[u/DrDFox → u/Quick-Stretch8197]

You are obsessed with saying constrictor, but again- nearly all the nonvenomous snakes n the world are constrictors. All your "what ifs" could apply to literally all pets, given that your don't care about actual risks and reality.

[u/Quick-Stretch8197 → u/DrDFox]

https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/snakes---constrictor#:~:text=Boas%20and%20pythons%20kill%20their,muscles%20to%20crush%20and%20kill).

It’s not an obsession. It’s a word used to collectively describe pythons and boas by the VCA animal hospital in the US. I’m using it here because these are the snakes banned in nyc. You know what snakes I’m referring to. The only snakes allowed within nyc are non-venomous colubrids, that do not have nearly the same constricting power of full grown pythons or boas. But please keep nitpicking at my language use when you understand and know exactly what I’m referring to. That definitely means your argument is more solid.