I'm so crazy about pet snakes!

While there are many wonderful benefits associated with owning a snake, these are some of the best.

Easy Upkeep

For some reason, many people think that owning a snake means committing to tremendous time and effort.

While some snakes do require a bit more attention and care, many are very easy to keep and to handle.

The key with any snake is to establish an environment that is natural, comfortable, and
safe. With this, the snake will adjust easily.

Time Investment

Unlike a dog that needs to be walked, a cat that requires a lot of petting, or a horse that must be ridden, a snake does not need exercise or an over abundance of attention.

As long as they have a clean cage in which to live, food once or twice a week, and occasional handling, snakes are content.

Cost of Maintenance

The cost of your snake will depend primarily on two things - the type of snake
and the pet shop or breeder from whom you buy.

A corn or garter snake may cost just $10 while a boa constrictor could cost hundreds of dollars.

However, after the initial money paid for the purchase of the snake, ongoing maintenance is very inexpensive.

In fact, experts have calculated the average cost of a snake, between $10 and $15 a month. Some snakes need a heated cage, which would run about $20 a year.

For lighting, which is not mandatory, you are looking about the same. Apart from this, your snake would need bedding and food, which is also low cost.

Therefore, the overall cost of keeping a snake is no big deal.

Odor

One of the problems seen with owning pets is the odor.

For instance, cats have the litter box and dogs tend to pass gas. With a snake, they go to the bathroom very seldom because they only eat once to twice weekly, or less frequent, especially when mature.

Because of this, snakes have little to no odor.

However, it is important that you keep the cage clean. In addition, some snakes such as the King Snake will release a substance when handled roughly or bothered.

Unfortunately, this substance does not smell very good, as it is intended to dissuade predators.

Even then, the odor can be washed off with no problem.

Noiseless

Snakes are quiet creatures, slinking around the cage, making virtually no noise.

Now, some snakes will hiss or make small noises if spooked or threatened but other than this, you would generally only hear the sound of the bedding as the snake slithers over and through it. For people who prefer a quiet pet, the snake is the ideal choice.

Space

Generally, snakes need little room although the size of the cage would depend on the mature size of the snake, as well as the number of snakes kept.

A good rule is that a 35-inch cage would easily house two Corn Snakes.

Just remember that the size of the cage will change as the snake grows so you might invest in more than one.

If you're reading this, you may want to buy a pet snake. Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with you.

The feeling of owning cute carnivorous reptile snakes as pets, with the intention of putting it in a fluffy snake cage and giving it a funny name is a feeling all of us go through.

In fact, you've just joined a huge proportion of exotic pet owners who feel that their lives are worth sacrificing as long as it means having a dangerous and scaly creature wrapped around their shoulders.

If you still haven't caught on, the whole paragraph above was written with a heavy dose of sarcasm. This writer does not encourage his readers to go and buy the first snake they see, lest he wants to see a rise in the statistics involving animal-related deaths.

Snakes are really dangerous and sometimes endangered creatures. They need proper and professional handling that the likes of normal people don't have. However, if your mind is set, here a few things you have to keep in mind.

1) What are you getting?
You have to decide on the type of snakes you want? The normal worm-like grass snakes or a massive python that can gulp down a whole cow? Make informed choices that are backed with research, either from other snake breeders or from the Internet, and ensure that you stick by it.

Once you've chosen, find out more about your choice. Do I know anything about snake health? What do snakes eat? Any special handling? Where can I keep them? Do I need a permit? Can I call it Fluffy without it getting mad? These questions need to be answered before you Google 'pet snakes for sale'.

2) Can you handle it?
Owning a snake is tough job indeed. You'll need to have the stomach for it, especially when it comes to the feeding. If you don't mind serving out dead mice daily or see live prey being eaten alive, then by all means go get a snake!

But, you will also have to think of those close to you (spouse, family and friends). You may be able to handle it, but can they?

There you go! A couple of questions that need answering before you get a pet snake. Better think long and hard about them.



Learn more here about Pet Snake Care & Breeding

In spite of this, snakes are not for everyone as care of snakes is quite complex. Just like in the case of having other types of exotic animals, commitment is essential.

Thus, prior to acquiring one, it is best to have the right information about them such as behavioral characteristics, dietary and habitat requirements, and other pertinent details. Only after which should you decide if you really are capable of having one.

Snakes care, no matter what you choose as your pet, has never been easy or for the faint-hearted. For pet snakes, your responsibility doesn't end when you have chosen the species.

You should be familiar with the correct care and feeding of snakes, the behavioral characteristic, and have the commitment to keep snakes as pets.

It is absolutely essential that anyone new to caring for snakes or thinking about buying a pet snake, gets as much information as possible about how to be a responsible owner and keep you snake healthy.

A good snake care book will provide all the information you need, including how to breed snakes, and will be a helpful resource for you for the entire lifetime of your snake.

Keeping snakes as pets can be easy only if their requirements are understood deeply. Their needs are different from other reptiles.

Owners must also understand that some of them grow very large and can become dangerous with the passage of time. There are different types of snakes available for pet owners with different preferences.

Every snake has a different diet and need different environment to live in. Snakes, which are kept as exotic pets, range from common garter snake to pythons.

Snakes sometimes also cross forty years of age; so potential owners should be aware of this fact and be ready to make lifetime commitment before thinking of keeping snakes as pets.

Snakes can easily escape from their owner's custody. They always look out for enclosures, which will let them out of the captivity.

The owners must be extremely careful in this regard and also should build an escape proof enclosure. Snakes are carnivores. They do not eat vegetation at all.

The favorite food for snakes is rats and mice. Bigger snakes are fed with squirrel, rabbits and other small mammals. Some species even eat insects and fishes.

As the snakes eat small animals, it is advisable to kill the prey before it is given to the snake. If this job is left to the snake, it could be risk to its life.

Wild snakes carry lots of diseases and parasites with them, get really stressed out with the transportation and are very difficult to be tamed.

King snakes, ball pythons and corn snakes are popular choices.

Their diet and environmental needs aren't as complicated as other species of snakes. They are also small in size, but the king snakes can sometimes grow up to seven feet.

Ball pythons have eating issues. They like to feed on a live prey instead of pre-killed prey. Also, they sometimes stop eating food for months together.

Ball pythons that have been bred in captivity have lesser eating issues. And before buying a ball snake, the owner can test whether the reptile eats a dead prey readily or not.

The more challenging snakes that are kept, as pets are red-tailed boas, water snakes, Burmese pythons, and any other pythons and wild snakes.

The most dangerous of them are Burmese pythons. They can completely swallow a human being. So it is recommended to have people around while feeding the reptile. Burmese pythons are very strong snakes.

They grow more than twenty feet and weigh more than two hundred pounds. Even red-tailed boas grow up to ten feet and weigh more than fifty ponds.

They are also difficult to be managed by one person. All these species demand right temperatures and humidity in their environment.
Reticulated pythons and anacondas are extremely dangerous exotic pets. Some strictly recommend against keeping them as pets.

Another variety that is fatal is venomous snakes. They not only are a threat to the owner and his family members but also to people in the neighborhood, if it escapes.

Snakes are also bred for their skin, which is used to make belts, bags, shoes, etc. They are also eaten as a delicacy in many countries and even in Western America. In many of the Asian countries, the snake's meat and blood is consumed for medicinal purposes.

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