Trouble has emerged between this Reddit user and his fiancée following a disagreement the couple had over his penchant for creepy crawlies.
User u/Warm-Art-378 posted this story to the r/AmItheAsshole subreddit asking for advice from users regarding the disagreement. He was wondering if he was in the wrong for his reaction to the incident. Essentially, what had happened was his fiancée had taken issue with a ball python that u/Warm-Art-378 had acquired shortly before she was due to move in with him. He had to slowly acclimate her to the snake but noted that by the time she had warmed up to it she had thought it was "really cool."
Apparently, this wasn't actually so, because when u/Warm-Art-378 arrived back from an out-of-town work trip he arrived home to find the snake missing. Inquiry revealed that his fiancée had betrayed his trust and let it loose outside.
The betrayal of trust is a major issue here, but even larger still is the effect on the ecosystem that the release of pets into a foreign environment can have. This is, after all, how the Burmese Python ended up establishing itself in Florida. There have been other notable introductions of invasive species to ecosystems in this exact manner.
It is also incredibly cruel to the animal itself and that alone is cause to send her packing. Do you really want to have someone in your life who is capable of hurting a living creature?
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