SkyTeam777 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (5 years 10 months 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 953 times:
Cool. Or one could be a lucky person and find a deadly poisonous one come crawling into one's bed late at night. Although some people have elected to have a deadly cobra as a pet.
KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 12027 posts, RR: 43 Reply 2, posted (5 years 10 months 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 950 times:
Quoting SkyTeam777 (Reply 1): Cool. Or one could be a lucky person and find a deadly poisonous one come crawling into one's bed late at night. Although some people have elected to have a deadly cobra as a pet.
Luckily, we only have two venomous snakes in Minnesota, both of which are very rare
Airfoilsguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (5 years 10 months 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 943 times:
feed him dfrosted mice dipped in chichen soup. You don't want to feed him live food be cause sometimes the food dosenent quiet die and eats it way out of the snake.
LHMARK From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 7255 posts, RR: 51 Reply 5, posted (5 years 10 months 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 942 times:
Every outdoor summer festival has Boa Constrictor Guy.
Boa Constrictor Guy has no personality, so the only way he can attract attention is to walk around at public gatherings with his pet snake draped over his (usually shirtless, hairy) torso and warming itself within the depths of its owner's luxuriant mullet.
If you get a snake, don't be Boa Constrictor Guy.
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Af773atmsp From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 2578 posts, RR: 2 Reply 6, posted (5 years 10 months 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 925 times:
My friend used to have a green snake. It would be awesome to have a pet snake (unless its venomous or deadly).
SlamClick From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 10062 posts, RR: 71 Reply 7, posted (5 years 10 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 865 times:
Snakes are not pets. You might keep one for years, carry it with you wherever you go and become very attached to it, but their reptilian brain does not lend itself to becoming attached to you. Put simply, if it were big enough it would eat you. (rather like a cat would) In the early 1980s my neighbors had a python here in Reno. It killed a child.
The garter snake is going to be happier with crickets and the like than with mice or cattle to eat. I have seen one eat a small frog, though. I don't know if this is a different subspecies but you might not like handling garter snakes. The ones I'm familiar with have a musk that would gag a maggot and it will not wash off your hands - it has to wear off.
I've carried a boa constrictor around for a couple days. Picked it up beside the road in Panama and returned it when I thought it might be hungry. They are relatively docile and placid critters but I wouldn't tempt it to bite me. Seems like that is a wound that would be sure to infect.
I am curious.
Quoting KaiGywer (Thread starter): Walking into my apartment just now, I saw two of these:
Did you mean that they were in your apartment or on the way to it?
BTW if you catch two together you are likely to have fifty or so in a couple of weeks. Need I say more?
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KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 12027 posts, RR: 43 Reply 8, posted (5 years 10 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 858 times:
Quoting SlamClick (Reply 7): Did you mean that they were in your apartment or on the way to it?
They were outside the building in the grass. One disappeared in between the flower bed and the building, I caught the other
Quoting SlamClick (Reply 7): BTW if you catch two together you are likely to have fifty or so in a couple of weeks. Need I say more?
Superfly From Thailand, joined May 2000, 38502 posts, RR: 80 Reply 9, posted (5 years 10 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 854 times:
Quoting SlamClick (Reply 7): Snakes are not pets. You might keep one for years, carry it with you wherever you go and become very attached to it, but their reptilian brain does not lend itself to becoming attached to you. Put simply, if it were big enough it would eat you. (rather like a cat would)
It makes no sense at all for people to keep a snake or any reptile as a pet. The whole point of owning one is purely for shock value. A snake owners greatest satisfaction is other people's reaction. Once these snakes get too big, many irresponsibly dump them in an environment in which it is not from. This has become a big problem in Florida where Burmese Pythons are wrecking havoc on the wildlife and even killing alligators!
It is an introduced species and I consider these people eco-terrorist.
Any snake owner that says otherwise is lying or being dishonest. I am not including professional snake handlers that do this as a profession.
You can't play freebie or catch with a snake. You can't go jogging with a snake and a snake can't get the morning papers for you either. A dog can.
Quoting SlamClick (Reply 7): In the early 1980s my neighbors had a python here in Reno. It killed a child.
That is just horrible!
I hope the owners served time for it.
Quoting SlamClick (Reply 7): BTW if you catch two together you are likely to have fifty or so in a couple of weeks. Need I say more?
That wouldn't look too impressive in your apartment.
DIJKKIJK From France, joined Jul 2003, 1670 posts, RR: 5 Reply 10, posted (5 years 10 months 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 836 times:
Quoting SlamClick (Reply 7): I've carried a boa constrictor around for a couple days. Picked it up beside the road in Panama and returned it when I thought it might be hungry. They are relatively docile and placid critters but I wouldn't tempt it to bite me. Seems like that is a wound that would be sure to infect.
I am curious.
Actually Boas can be quite agressive. Their bite is not poisonous, but since they have backward curved teeth like pythons, the wound can be pretty nasty and can get infected, as you mentioned.
Quoting SkyTeam777 (Reply 1): some people have elected to have a deadly cobra as a pet.
FutureSDPDcop From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 1291 posts, RR: 5 Reply 11, posted (5 years 10 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 797 times:
Quoting LHMARK (Reply 5): Boa Constrictor Guy has no personality, so the only way he can attract attention is to walk around at public gatherings with his pet snake draped over his (usually shirtless, hairy) torso and warming itself within the depths of its owner's luxuriant mullet.
If you get a snake, don't be Boa Constrictor Guy.
That sounds like a perfect Budweiser "Real American Hero's" new commercial in the making.
I agree. They only belong in their natural habitats or a zoo where they can pretend to be in their "natural habitats" and be taken care of. I am really looking forward to visiting the Bronx Zoo's nice collection of King & Egyptian Cobras before summer's end in the reptile exhibit.
Af773atmsp From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 2578 posts, RR: 2 Reply 15, posted (5 years 10 months 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 739 times:
Kmh1956 From Bermuda, joined Jun 2005, 3324 posts, RR: 8 Reply 16, posted (5 years 10 months 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 738 times:
Quoting Airfoilsguy (Reply 4): feed him dfrosted mice dipped in chichen soup. You don't want to feed him live food be cause sometimes the food dosenent quiet die and eats it way out of the snake.
Sorry, dude, that's gross!!!
Quoting Superfly (Reply 9): It makes no sense at all for people to keep a snake or any reptile as a pet. The whole point of owning one is purely for shock value. A snake owners greatest satisfaction is other people's reaction. Once these snakes get too big, many irresponsibly dump them in an environment in which it is not from. This has become a big problem in Florida where Burmese Pythons are wrecking havoc on the wildlife and even killing alligators!
It is an introduced species and I consider these people eco-terrorist.
Any snake owner that says otherwise is lying or being dishonest. I am not including professional snake handlers that do this as a profession.
You can't play freebie or catch with a snake. You can't go jogging with a snake and a snake can't get the morning papers for you either. A dog can.
I agree with you wholeheartedly....but must also add that snakes aren't cuddly and probably won't jump up on your lap in the cold weather...like a cat would.
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WestJetForLife From Canada, joined Jun 2005, 814 posts, RR: 1 Reply 17, posted (5 years 10 months 9 hours ago) and read 702 times:
I have a two-foot long corn snake as a pet. Quite amazing creature. He "dances" (he pitches his nose up towards the top of the cage) whenever I play music, he's very docile and is very open towards other people.
Kai, I do not reccomend keeping a wild snake as a pet. It has become adapted to it's "wild" natural surroundings and any change in that may cause it to become stressed or possibly hostile towards yourself.
If you want a snake as a pet, then may I suggest you go to a breeder and purchase a baby snake. If you want any advice on how to feed snakes or how to take care of them, please message me privately and I will help you in any way shape or form.
SlamClick, Larry, are you guys talking about wild or domestic snakes? If you're talking about wild snakes, I agree with you, but domestic snakes, in my opinion, are quite easy to take care of, especially if he or she has become fond of you.
MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13337 posts, RR: 64 Reply 18, posted (5 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 665 times:
Quoting SlamClick (Reply 7): You might keep one for years, carry it with you wherever you go and become very attached to it, but their reptilian brain does not lend itself to becoming attached to you.
Actually some of the bigger reptiles (due to increased brain size) are definitely recognising their owner and respond to him. When I was a kid, we had a Brazilian Forest Tortoise, which we raised from the sizeof a human palm to fully grown up (about a foot long). This animal definitely recognised my mother (who was the main person to feed and take care of it, though it was very much a family pet. During summer it lived in the garden and in winter in our sitting room, since it was by this time too big for the terrarium. We kept it until it died (of a late diagnosed pneumonia, very few vets have knowldge about reptiles, when we found one who did, it was too late), for about 15 years.). Whenever my mother whistled softly, it would look into her direction and walk to her. The tortoise also interacted with our family cat (mainly stealing the cat food out off it's bowl). It also liked to have it's throat caressed and would stick it's head out to have us do it.
I have heard similar stories about Green Iguanas, which also become very tame, and in Berlin zoo some decades ago, they had a tame Komodo dragon, which did rounds with the warden, just like a dog.
Superfly From Thailand, joined May 2000, 38502 posts, RR: 80 Reply 20, posted (5 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 624 times:
KaiGywer:
Ask your landlord first.
Years ago, a friend of my sister thought it would be 'cute' to own a Boa Constrictor. Never mind the fact that she was living in a large apartment complex in which pets were NOT allowed. Here little 1 bedroom apartment was just not big enough for the Boa. It grew to 5 feet before it decided to take a tour through the walls and vents of the apartment complex for over a week. Everyone in the apartment was scarred to death because of it. She then had to tell her neighbors to keep an eye out for a 5 foot long Boa Constrictor that may show up in their unit. She instantly made her neighbors her enemies and she was evicted from her place. The Boa showed up in someone else's apartment. A very elderly man who luckily didn't have a heart attack. Now she has an eviction on her credit report because of her stupidity in wanting a snake.
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