NFR Got any Herp pictures?
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Dum's are quite possibly the best pet snake. don't get HUGE, super chill (mostly).
Mine just passed away this last year after 27 years!
A couple anoles back in the day are my only experience with reptiles. Since your snakes live so long, do they develop some sort of bond?
Like with Chadk’s daughter, is it apparent that her snake likes her better than the rest of the family?
Or with you, C man, did it ‘light up’ when you came in the room?
Or are they kinda like fish…they’re simply neat to watch?
just curious
Based on my observations, snakes become comfortable around the people with whom they have frequent contact, i.e., those feeding, handling, performing frequent general care. I assume snakes recognize a person's scent & unique voice vibration pattern & over time come to view them as non-threatening.
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When I was in high school someone brought a gopher snake to the science teacher. In retrospect it probably should have been immediately released, but it ended up in an aquarium. I don't remember how long it took for the snake to settle down, but eventually it became so tame that most any/every day a student would walk into the classroom, pull the snake out, and "wear" it for the hour-long period. (The snake would usually wrap around an arm or sometimes crawl up a shirt sleeve and poke out a collar/neckline.) At the end of the period the student would unwind it and put it back in the cage, and then five minutes later the whole thing would repeat.
A few years back, my Daugher left me with her Corn Snake.
Slinky was regularly handled by both of us. He was right close to 6' long when he went to the eternal den. Great pet - didn't bark, puke/pee/crap on the carpet, didn't need to go for walks, never woke me up in the middle of the night, never dug holes or chewed-up anything.
Slinky was regularly handled by both of us. He was right close to 6' long when he went to the eternal den. Great pet - didn't bark, puke/pee/crap on the carpet, didn't need to go for walks, never woke me up in the middle of the night, never dug holes or chewed-up anything.
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while mine was super laid back (that really goes with that species in general, plus captive bred specimens of most species are generally a little more laid back than their wild-caught counterparts). The only time he really "lit up" was when I came in with a thawed rat in the feeding tongs. These boas in general are actually rather boring as they are ambush predators and spend 99% of their time buried in substrate waiting for food to pass by. I have had several gopher snake in the past that I owned the seemed to be a little more active when I was in the room but I'm not sure that anyone could accurately say it was anything more than food motivation. Same with the hognose I currently have. But yes, they do grow accustomed to handling and not perceiving the human as a threat,
nope !
Ha! I suppose location might be a helpful factor in making an ID. It was middle Skagit/Lyman area.Looks like it to me. If in Western WA that helps make it more likely.
That’s pretty cool.
Probably be pretty reasonable to cast on a 5 weight.
I probably came across 5 or 6 of those clusters.
Even the dog was curious
