Ottakee Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Tell me about ball pythons as pets. The good, the bad, and the ugly. My daughter wants one as a pet. She would want to handle it a great deal. How are they with that? Her bearded dragon died last week and now she wants a snake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 No. It's a snake, right? They live long lives, so when your dc move out you are stuck with the snake!! :crying: Hermit crabs are cool, and easy to care for, if you don't want soft and furry pets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 A snake!? Egads! Well, I'm not one to talk. We had rats as pets and they were as cute as can be, although it did take me a little while to get used to their tails. Just curious, how long did the bearded dragon live? Our rats died under 2 years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Ball pythons are great. Their generally calm, easy to handle, large enough to keep track of but they don't get so big they are unsafe or unhandleable. I would love to have a ball python but we have a red albino corn snake right now. The main thing to consider is you do have to feed them mice. We order frozen mice online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Mightn't Florida pay you to come and take one of theirs away? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Do you want one as a pet? I've no idea. To me, snake and pet don't fit in the same sentence together without a "never" in there somewhere. ;) FWIW, the ball python in one of our Bio classes used to be a student's pet before they could no longer keep it. As she's aged, she's started biting... so students can no longer handle her for the most part esp when she's hungry. Anyone around her has to be very careful. This means, of course, that she's almost always in her aquarium - not much of a life for any land creature of her size IMO, but the alternative of releasing her isn't happening either. She's fed. She's watered. She has a light and some climbing materials etc, but it reminds me of the old style zoos and the poor creatures who had to spend their lives there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottakee Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 *I* do not want one but my daughter does. She does take very good care of her animals and with her special needs she will likely never move away from home. I just don't know if I want a pet with a 40+ year life span. If it could eat a frozen mouse every week or 2 then that would be easier than the bearded dragon that needed live crickets and meal worms etc. I still think a kitten might be better. We already have 12 baby chicks, 2 ducklings, a dog, a barn cat, and 3 horses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SebastianCat Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 My brother had corn snakes as pets when we were growing up, and my mom - who was NOT enthusiastic about them at first - ended up saying they were the easiest pets she ever owned. They were a good conversation piece when we had friends over. :) I don't know anything about ball pythons but corn snakes were low maintenance, clean, and pretty easy to care for. They grew to be about 4 feet long and my brother took them out pretty often to handle them. We had a pet shop down the street and my brother used to ride his bike down there once a week to buy live mice (pinkies) to feed the snakes, but now I think it's easier to buy frozen. They ate (and pooped) once a week, needed clean water every week, and needed their bedding changed once every couple of months - about as often as they would shed their skin. We did have snakes escape every so often. Once I found one in my dresser drawer, which was good for a scream but otherwise harmless. One got out and was gone for months, then started coming up out of the shower drain while my mom was in the shower bathing. That was pretty traumatic for her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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