Harimoni Proudswift
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Hi, I'm Harimoni Proudswift and I love snakes. I'd really like to have a python as a pet, but my family have never been too enthusiastic about it.
Hehe so just get a snake that'll... like your cat... a scrub python.I'm almost in my mid-30s and already have my own place to live. Perhaps the reason my family don't like the idea of me wanting a snake is because I have a cat.
I'm almost in my mid-30s and already have my own place to live. Perhaps the reason my family don't like the idea of me wanting a snake is because I have a cat.
Yep. My snakes are less than 2m from my mice tanks and are back to back with my budgie cages. No dramas.Snakes should be kept in lockable terrariums, so having a cat (or any other pet for that matter) isn’t going to be an isssue in the slightest. I’ve had dogs, cats, chook, mice... all in the same house as my snakes and never a problem. Heck, with proper housing you can have natural prey/predator species in the same room without an issue (ie: Woma’s are known snake eaters and yet all my snakes are housed in the same room without an issue)
Perhaps... but then again... snakes in the wild don't experience a lot of the things that their captive counterparts do .. like a stable consistent environment, no competition, no predators, regular hassle free feeds... comparing the 2 scenarios is pointless.@Aussiepride83
Physically it may do no harm but mentally it would cause issues. It is like sticking you in a box with your favourite meal right beside it and not letting you have any for days on end. Snakes don't constantly smell food in the wild and shouldn't in captivity either.
With all due respect, I disagree. Snakes often occupy burrows that are made by their prey animals, such as lizards, mice, rats, small marsupials, rabbits etc. They also occupy hollows and shelters that have been used by nesting birds and arboreal mammals. Aside from this is the physiological reaction of "sensory adaptation", where prolonged exposure to a stimulus reduces the reaction to that by increasing the threshold required by the receptors to react. In other words a stronger stimulus is required to elicit a response from the receptor neurons. A common example is contact of an object with the skin. After a while you cease to feel it unless a stronger stimulus of touch is applied.Physically it may do no harm but mentally it would cause issues. It is like sticking you in a box with your favourite meal right beside it and not letting you have any for days on end. Snakes don't constantly smell food in the wild and shouldn't in captivity either.
Environment enrichment.I don’t see problems with tigers being housed next to deers in zoos :O
the 2 things are not mutually exclusive,in our house we have a cat and 11 snakes plus various dragons,skinks and monitors.+ CHICKENS.There are no conflicts,the cat walks around looking at all the reptiles and they ignore him.I'm almost in my mid-30s and already have my own place to live. Perhaps the reason my family don't like the idea of me wanting a snake is because I have a cat.
the 2 things are not mutually exclusive,in our house we have a cat and 11 snakes plus various dragons,skinks and monitors.+ CHICKENS.There are no conflicts,the cat walks around looking at all the reptiles and they ignore him.
If you have your own home and are a mature person your family has no say in it.Just tell them you ARE getting a snake,no if's buts or maybe's.
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