YET ANOTHER ASSAULT ON OUR FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS, AS HUMANS

OLYMPIA, Wa -- A man from Shelton who uses a snake as a service animal traveled to Olympia on Tuesday to lobby against a bill that would narrow the definition of an aid animal.

(Thanks to Matt Filar)

Comments

[wiredog]

Someone tell Judi! I bet he's single!

[Loudmouth]

Sends Everglades service python so he gets a real hug.

[Jeff Meyerson]

You can have my python when you pry it from my cold, dead fist fingers.

[Steve]

I smell something slimy (not the snake; they're clean and dry). How, exactly, did this guy seize on command to get the snake to react? It would be difficult to establish a link in the snake's mind between stimulus-response without repeated stimuli.
Also, most animal training is done with food or petting as a reward. Snakes don't need that much food and affection is not their forte. Here's another mouse, Snavely! Just throw it on the pile.

[oldfatguy]

Why do I keep thinkin of the TV series V? Reptiles pretended to be something they are not? snakes pretending to be service animals? I am just saying.

[nursecindy]

If I were blind and had a choice between running into things or using a seeing eye snake, I would have many lumps on my head. I would also like to know which blog guy made the comment on the article about how they also have a service snake and they keep it in their trousers?

[Kibby F5™]

... ah, that could have been me nursecindy. I was thinking it, but decided an "aid snake" may be a better definition.

[Mikey]

OK I give up. Seeing eye snake?

[Loudmouth]

Seeing-eye snake. Just one eye? Poor thing.

[Wolfsong]

"Is that a seeing-eye snake in your pocket or...?" Etc.

[bonmot]

Oh, the irony. Outlawing guide snakes would constrict his rights.

According to the Pythongorean theorem, a square plus be square equals see-snake scared.

[Curtis E Flush]

Pssst, hey, wanna see my pet snake?

[Wolfsong]

That kinda hurt my brain, bonmot. 'course, math was never my best subject.....