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02-04-2009, 01:27 PM
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I had
2 Burmese pythons (8 and 10 feet)
1 Ball python (6 feet)
2 Green iguanas ( 4 and 5 feet)
1 red tailed boa...died as a baby
I really want an albino Burmese python...but I need to make space and may have to wait til the dog goes...hehehe
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02-04-2009, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
I had
2 Burmese pythons (8 and 10 feet)
1 Ball python (6 feet)
2 Green iguanas ( 4 and 5 feet)
1 red tailed boa...died as a baby
I really want an albino Burmese python...but I need to make space and may have to wait til the dog goes...hehehe
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Wow! These are all really cool snakes. I had a yellow rat snake. I bought him because they're regularly found close to human habitation, and they're really easy to take care of. They're also widely available from captive bred stocks. Corn snakes are really cool too. I like their size.
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02-04-2009, 01:50 PM
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Wow! These are all really cool snakes. I had a yellow rat snake. I bought him because they're regularly found close to human habitation, and they're really easy to take care of. They're also widely available from captive bred stocks. Corn snakes are really cool too. I like their size.
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What is comical is when I walk my dog (he's a smallish 60lbs) everyone wants to run up and pet him
When I had my snake and walked with one of them around my neck, I could see people sometimes literally move from one side of teh street to the other....heh.
The dog will bite you long before the snake takes a care to do so....
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02-04-2009, 02:32 PM
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I would be scared to visit DaemonSeid and cheerfulgreek.
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02-04-2009, 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
What is comical is when I walk my dog (he's a smallish 60lbs) everyone wants to run up and pet him
When I had my snake and walked with one of them around my neck, I could see people sometimes literally move from one side of teh street to the other....heh.
The dog will bite you long before the snake takes a care to do so....
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lol I know what you mean. My cat has bitten me many times, but my tarantula never has. My cat has her little "I don't want to be held" mood swings.  My tarantula has gone from eating crickets to feeder mice, she's gotten that big. I still give her crickets occasionally, but I don't have to feed her as much when I give her the mice. When my friend comes over, he makes me put my spider in the closet. After she went through her first molt, he came over and thought I bought another spider. lol It was just the exoskeleton. It looks very similar to the actual spider. I thought that was hilarious.  It's funny how people react to pets they're not familiar with.
You're right though. The dog will bite before the snake does. 
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02-04-2009, 03:06 PM
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lol I know what you mean. My cat has bitten me many times, but my tarantula never has. My cat has her little "I don't want to be held" mood swings. My tarantula has gone from eating crickets to feeder mice, she's gotten that big. I still give her crickets occasionally, but I don't have to feed her as much when I give her the mice. When my friend comes over, he makes me put my spider in the closet. After she went through her first molt, he came over and thought I bought another spider. lol It was just the exoskeleton. It looks very similar to the actual spider. I thought that was hilarious. It's funny how people react to pets they're not familiar with.
You're right though. The dog will bite before the snake does. |
Another funny thing...more guys I know are afraid of reptiles and spiders than they are of dogs...
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02-04-2009, 03:11 PM
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Another funny thing...more guys I know are afraid of reptiles and spiders than they are of dogs...
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lol
Some guys are afraid of mice and rats too.
I'll have to admit, I'm not a big fan of house spiders, because they do bite. 
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02-04-2009, 03:19 PM
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lol
Some guys are afraid of mice and rats too.
I'll have to admit, I'm not a big fan of house spiders, because they do bite. |
That was one other thing too...getting used to rats enough to feed the snakes...I did rabbits once...couldn't do it...I felt so guilty
Watching a snake feed is is one of the most highly educational things I had ever seen in life. For somehing that hardly ever moves, it strikes powerfully and quickly and then from there listening to bones being crushed (hope I'm not grossing anyone out, if so stop reading now) and ingesting is something that really never gets seen on 'nature shows.'
Movies like Anaconda and so forth have done them a serious injustice.
I also didn't realize untl after owning them that snakes have a very slooooooooow digestive process and they may only poop 3 to 4 times a year and when they let it out....the stench,
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