Any College Freshman?

[Tainted Glory]

I'll be attending Rutgers New Brunswick starting September 1st and I'm incredibly excited. However, I'm uncertain what will come of my snakes. I'm hoping I get to meet my roommate soon to see how he feels about having a rack in the room. Just curious if anyone else is living in a dorm and keeping snakes? I'm going to need to figure something out as far as a freezer for rodents and small things I overlook now.

[daniel1983]

I'll be attending Rutgers New Brunswick starting September 1st and I'm incredibly excited. However, I'm uncertain what will come of my snakes. I'm hoping I get to meet my roommate soon to see how he feels about having a rack in the room. Just curious if anyone else is living in a dorm and keeping snakes? I'm going to need to figure something out as far as a freezer for rodents and small things I overlook now.

You need to find out your school's policies towards snakes in dormrooms first.

If you keep the animals against school policies, be prepared to face the consequences.

[ladywhipple02]

Agreed. Most schools strictly prohibit having ANY animals in the dorms (I wasn't even allowed to keep baby red-ear turtles).

You may be able to get away with it by checking with your RA and seeing if they're cool with it... but if the hall director catches you, you'll be toast.

Think about the welfare of the critters...

[tweets_4611]

I'll be a junior in college next semester, and I still live in the dorms. I got my girl last year. We are allowed to have pets if they are able to hold thier breath for 30 mins. Which basically means you can only have fish or turtles. And we are allowed one 20g tank per person. Well, when Kasi brough her BP up to the dorms (she lives just down the hall) she just didn't tell many ppl about it. The RA foudn out eventually, but she was pretty cool about it. She just didn't want to see her. So when I got my girl, I just didn't ever let the RA see her. She never even knew I had her, b/c we don't have room checks or anything. But Kasi and I both have somewhere we could take the animals if we got in enough trouble that we had to move them. As long as we don't get any complaints about them (don't run around freaking ppl out and such) than we are safe. I'm not saying to sneak your bp in or anything, but there are cases where it will work. I would talk to your RA and see where they stand on that kind of thing.

P.S. It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission. As long as you have a backup if you have to move it out, I think it would be ok.

[Sausage]

We are allowed to have pets if they are able to hold thier breath for 30 mins.

Huh?

Yeah, I'm at NCSU and there ain't nothin' allowed in the dorms to my understanding, I live in an apartment, so no problamo.

[tweets_4611]

It's a round about way of saying that you can only have fish, some sorts of turtles and frogs.

[ladywhipple02]

Yeah, when I was at OSU, we had the same policy. And I had turtles... definately frowned upon, but no one said too much.


RA's are usually pretty cool about things. But you have to be careful with Hall Directors and such... they catch you, you're hosed (and your RA will play dumb).

If you do keep them in the dorms, make sure you have someplace to take them if you get caught.

[Tainted Glory]

We are allowed to have a maximum of a 10g fishtank, but if my roommate is OKAY with the idea of having some snakes in what appears to be a file cabinet, who's to make a fuss?

[Kagez28]

Yeah, when I was at OSU...

Go Bucks!

[Tainted Glory]

I apologize if I'm coming off as immature or arrogant or anything like that. I'm just having a tough time taking this rule seriously. But the fact that its "out of my hands" at this point makes me uneasy. If my roommate is deathly afraid of snakes, I have no choice but to leave my babies at home (45min drive, granted).