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Post by mintygreen on Feb 25, 2012 5:30:49 GMT -5
I watched this program about these 3 people who each had a phobia...one had a phobia of snakes, one a phobia of pit bulls, and the other a phobia of spiders. I'm especially proud of the guy who got over his snake phobia because not only did he get over the phobia but he went on to own a pet snake. I was not expecting that one! He went from being even more afraid of snakes than most people who don't like them to actually owning one which is further than a lot of people would ever go with a snake. It's currently on YouTube: Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFPVzC9-SyAPart 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OnU6TJ7GHsPart 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5MgzwVQ120This program is great. I'm sure that for people who watched it who didn't like these animals either, hopefully it helped them realize that they are not bad. |
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Post by pitbulllady on Feb 25, 2012 14:29:08 GMT -5
I watched the first episode that you linked to on my DA page and plan to watch the other two. I normally avoid Animal Planet like plague, but I did enjoy this program. I've watched similar programs on Nat Geo, where they have their own resident Psychologist, Dr. Eric Lee, who also happens to breed Reticulated Pythons. He has to treat a lot of Nat Geo employees for phobias, people who have to go out into the field to take photos, etc., and into areas where the object of said phobias can be found. I have had to use exposure therapy on myself to conquer personal fears of spiders(believe it or not)and storms, before they became phobias, so I know it works, maybe a bit TOO well, if you know how I am with spiders now, lol.
With the guy with the snake phobia, you can tell that his phobia(which is NOT the same as a fear)was due to a much deeper issue, the bullying he received as a child, so he was really having to defeat TWO phobias at the same time. At the point I am in the viewing, I had more respect for him than the other two, and really wanted to beach-slap the biker due who had such a deep hatred/phobia for Pit Bulls(or any short-haired stocky dog), since his fear was so much based on myths and wives' tales he'd been exposed to by popular media. His reaction was more hate than anything else.
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Post by mintygreen on Feb 25, 2012 21:48:37 GMT -5
I watched the first episode that you linked to on my DA page and plan to watch the other two. I normally avoid Animal Planet like plague, but I did enjoy this program. I've watched similar programs on Nat Geo, where they have their own resident Psychologist, Dr. Eric Lee, who also happens to breed Reticulated Pythons. He has to treat a lot of Nat Geo employees for phobias, people who have to go out into the field to take photos, etc., and into areas where the object of said phobias can be found. I have had to use exposure therapy on myself to conquer personal fears of spiders(believe it or not)and storms, before they became phobias, so I know it works, maybe a bit TOO well, if you know how I am with spiders now, lol. With the guy with the snake phobia, you can tell that his phobia(which is NOT the same as a fear)was due to a much deeper issue, the bullying he received as a child, so he was really having to defeat TWO phobias at the same time. At the point I am in the viewing, I had more respect for him than the other two, and really wanted to beach-slap the biker due who had such a deep hatred/phobia for Pit Bulls(or any short-haired stocky dog), since his fear was so much based on myths and wives' tales he'd been exposed to by popular media. His reaction was more hate than anything else. pitbulllady Well honestly in the first clip when the guy who has a phobia/hate of pit bulls talked about when his phobia developed, it was when he was a child and he saw his neighbour get attacked by one so bad that he needed 1,000 stitches. So he did actually witness an attack, it wasn't from reading the media and what not. The thing is that the attack of course still wasn't the dog's fault....it's owners not watching their animals properly or not training them the right way. Anyway about the guy who has a phobia of snakes, yeah it's really horrible what that other person did to his pet frog. I'd be traumatized too if someone took one of my pet guinea pigs and fed one of them to a snake. The snake would just be doing what it naturally does, I would blame the person for it....but it would certainly be traumatizing, especially for a child which is how old he was when that happened. |
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Post by pitbulllady on Feb 26, 2012 11:12:35 GMT -5
The REAL thing is, that 40 years ago, on the West Coast in a large city, the dog that attacked his neighbor probably was NOT a Pit Bull Terrier at all, since at that time, the breed was barely known outside of the rural South or some of the cities which had large Irish-American populations, and people who had them, knew not to let them run loose. Most likely that dog was a large mongrel, but over time, the guy came to believe it was a "pit bull"(which is now a catch-phrase for any and all short-haired dogs between 15 and 200 pounds that do something bad) because of things he'd heard about them and read about them over the years after they became popular, especially in the inner cities. He created a sort of "false memory" of the dog itself, turning it into a monster.
I just hope and pray that Seth gets to keep his Ball Python. I didn't realize until I'd watched all three videos that he lives in San Francisco, where Ball Pythons are illegal, along with all other constricting snakes, under the assumption that they are dangerous! The real horror, a legitimate reason to fear something, would be for him to have his pet taken away and killed after he himself has made that much progress. Recently a soap opera actor committed suicide in NYC after he was forced to have his Pit Bull Terrier killed, for no other reason than because it was a Pit Bull, and he was unable to find housing that accepted that breed. He'd been constantly harrassed and attacked by neighbors for having the dog, no matter where he tried to live, even though the dog had done nothing. The man could not live with the guilt of knowing he'd betrayed and killed his best friend. Such is the widespread fear and hatred of animals like this and the snakes.
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Post by mintygreen on Feb 27, 2012 0:10:10 GMT -5
The REAL thing is, that 40 years ago, on the West Coast in a large city, the dog that attacked his neighbor probably was NOT a Pit Bull Terrier at all, since at that time, the breed was barely known outside of the rural South or some of the cities which had large Irish-American populations, and people who had them, knew not to let them run loose. Most likely that dog was a large mongrel, but over time, the guy came to believe it was a "pit bull"(which is now a catch-phrase for any and all short-haired dogs between 15 and 200 pounds that do something bad) because of things he'd heard about them and read about them over the years after they became popular, especially in the inner cities. He created a sort of "false memory" of the dog itself, turning it into a monster. I just hope and pray that Seth gets to keep his Ball Python. I didn't realize until I'd watched all three videos that he lives in San Francisco, where Ball Pythons are illegal, along with all other constricting snakes, under the assumption that they are dangerous! The real horror, a legitimate reason to fear something, would be for him to have his pet taken away and killed after he himself has made that much progress. Recently a soap opera actor committed suicide in NYC after he was forced to have his Pit Bull Terrier killed, for no other reason than because it was a Pit Bull, and he was unable to find housing that accepted that breed. He'd been constantly harrassed and attacked by neighbors for having the dog, no matter where he tried to live, even though the dog had done nothing. The man could not live with the guilt of knowing he'd betrayed and killed his best friend. Such is the widespread fear and hatred of animals like this and the snakes. pitbulllady Oh okay that's interesting, I didn't know that about pit bulls 40 years ago. Also that's crazy that ball pythons are considered dangerous in some places and are illegal.  I'm pretty sure they are allowed where I live, I have seen them in some pet stores here. That's really sad to hear about the soap opera actor and his pit bull. They are banned in the part of Canada I live in(people who have one from before when the ban was put in place in 2005 are allowed to keep the animal but no new ones are allowed and any that are proven to be younger and not as old as being born in 2005 can be put down). I'm pretty sure I heard a story about a guy a while back who re-located to another part of Canada because his dog wasn't allowed here and would have been put down. So he re-located and took the dog with him. I really hope no one takes Seth's snake away. That would be so wrong and sad. |
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I'm pretty sure they are allowed where I live, I have seen them in some pet stores here.