Check this out!

[Mommy2many]

My friend sent me this link about a guy & his snake:

Pet Snake's Job Is to Sense His Owner's Seizures | Amazing | News | PEOPLE Pets


They do more than eat, sleep, poop & breed!!!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

this article is very odd to me... it just doesn't seem to add up!? The part that's getting me is that the snake has been "trained" to "jump" into a carrier after he detects a seizure. I do not understand!!!

[Mommy2many]

To be honest with you, I did not read it thru the past few sentences to get the idea of the article. Even if just the part of sensing the seizure is true, that in itself is a valuable service for an individual.

[guidofatherof5]

I think he is trained to get into the carrier to be out of the way in case medical attention is needed.
I think the snake would be in harm's way if it were found around this unconscious guy's neck.
I wish there were some details about how the snake was trained.

[Stefan-A]

I can think of two far more likely explanations:
- He feels a squeeze and attributes it to the snake, when it is in fact a symptom of an impending seizure.
- The snake is indeed squeezing and he has a psychosomatic reaction to it. He essentially triggers the seizure himself.

[drache]

I question the wisdom to carry a constrictor around one's neck, particularly if said snake constricts just as one heads into a state of decreased control over one's body
and I am very much interested in his training methods, since I don't know what snakes want badly enough more often than once a day, to come up with a reasonable incentive

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

my problem with it, is that snakes cannot be "trained" like a dog or a cat can. I just also don't think it's healthy for the snake to be spending that much time out of a relaxed, controlled environment.

[drache]

my problem with it, is that snakes cannot be "trained" like a dog or a cat can.

I don't think so either, but I'm very curious as to what this guy did that he thinks of as training

[guidofatherof5]

Funny thing is, our snakes train us

[Stefan-A]

I can think of two far more likely explanations:
- He feels a squeeze and attributes it to the snake, when it is in fact a symptom of an impending seizure.
- The snake is indeed squeezing and he has a psychosomatic reaction to it. He essentially triggers the seizure himself.

Frankly, the simplest explanation is that one of the thousands of times the snake has happened to squeeze, the guy has had a seizure and now he thinks that there's a correlation.