They're siblings from the same clutch and yet they have different personalities. My two reticulated pythons are called Sid and Nancy. Otherwise, I don't think it makes too much of a difference where you live really, although being in a city makes finding a decent reptile vet a lot easier.ĭo your snakes all have different quirks? Tell us about a few of them.
I don't have a garden so I don't get to exercise them outside as much as I'd like to, but on warm days I can take one or two across to the park opposite my house for a stretch in the sunshine. What’s it like to have snakes in an urban area?Ĭrayford is a small suburban town right near the Dartford Crossing. On the odd occasion, I'll speak to someone who hates the idea of them, but it's quite rare. Even people who haven't interacted with one before are generally very interested to come and see them and learn more, and even more hesitant people end up cuddling at least one once they meet them. It's usually excitement, curiosity or absolute enthusiasm. How do people react when you tell them you have snakes? He'd been left in a box by his previous owner. My newest was actually via the same girl, who contacted me hoping I'd take on another rescue. Another, I took from a girl who had already rescued it a couple of months earlier but wasn't able to keep it long-term. So he'd bought them on a whim from someone he met in a pub, only to then realise that he was terrified of them. My first two were being sold on a second-hand selling site for a pittance by a guy who’d thought that snakes would be a good 'manly' animal to have. Three of them were in fantastic health, and had been really well-loved by their previous owner, but he was emigrating and couldn't keep them.
So, I started looking at the idea of getting us a snake that she could learn about to hopefully show her that they aren't the frightening creatures she imagined.Īll seven of them are either rescued or re-homed from someone who couldn't keep them anymore. I want her to grow up without these common irrational fears. She wasn't even three and had never seen a real one, but she'd already begun to learn from other children and her cartoons that they're an animal to be feared. However, it wasn't until my daughter told me she was afraid of snakes that I decided to start keeping them again. We had several snakes when I was growing up, and I've always just really loved them. Of course! What initially drew you to them? The simple golden rule is any time you go to handle a snake, approach it with your hand. Yeah, Ruby has bitten me twice, actually. He was literally petrified to hold it – he had protective clothing on.ĭo you ever feel fearful of your snakes yourself? And the other one was from someone who basically bought an animal and didn’t realise what he was getting himself into. I went to view them from private sellers and saw the kind of conditions they were in and I couldn’t turn away.
But there are individual personalities and I would say the two snakes are totally different Ruby’s really shy, really timid. But inside I know that’s not really true.
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I like to think that they show affection and that Khaleesi’s actually watching TV with me. So if they’re held and handled often from a young age, they’ll grow comfortable with us handling them. They tolerate humans by constant interaction.
I mean I’m not an expert – this is my opinion and I’m basing it off some of the stuff that I’ve read – but there’s no such thing as a tame snake.
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