rant time big brother.....On a level of 1 to 10 of not very sensible things on what you allow kids to do, this would get a 12 in my book. If bhumi see's a snake in the garden he will try and pick it up as he did with this one, kids do not have the reasoning with "Oh that was a dead one and this one isnt". not to mention that some snakes feign death to get left alone, and most poisonous snake still have poison in their fangs after death.