Horrible Experience This Morning

Cats. Meh. I'm glad you didn't have to learn a harder lesson with cats in your reptile/invert/etc room but that's a terrible idea whicih you obviously already know. There's a reason for reptile/invert/etc rooms and this is one of them. Thankfully there's no major damage and lesson learned before you lost an animal or worse. Keep your head up and be thankful worse didn't happen!

Kind Regards,

B

My cats get sprayed with water when they try to enter my snake room. I've done it so often, that now when they come near the room all I have to do is hiss or say get out of here - and they take off! Glad it wasn't worse than it is.

It sounds like your kitten is lucky she loosed a baby BP, instead of a hungry breeder female!

If I were you, I'd get a large crate for kitty when they need to be locked up. You could keep them locked up in the snake room, in a secure crate so they can't get to any of the snakes or anything else. Then you can turn them loose later when it's supervised time!(aka, daytime when mom is awake and not attempting to sleep with kitty tapdancing on her head)

Things happen. When the snakes are securely locked up, you don't always think that another pet will somehow free them from the outside! I just left a baby bin open last night while texting back and forth with someone and had to retrieve a baby normal ball from inside the back of the rack, and that was about 10 minutes! And that's with me constantly watching everything and double-checking everything. It just happens sometimes that we make a poor decision that seems okay at the time.

Watch for the infection. With snakes, it could look okay and just be a tiny rising under the skin. That tough stretchy skin hides infections under it really well. Good luck.

I'm sorry that you and your snake had such a bad experience.

Obviously your current housing situation is difficult. Don't waste any time blaming yourself. Things that we should have forseen but didn't happen to all of us. Your snake should be fine--these critters take much more abuse than a few cat boo boos in the wild and survive. Treat the wounds, keep a close eye on the snake until they heal, and work on figuring out a way to keep cats from bothering them again.

Sorry to hear that. I had a similar experience with my cat. Someone left my bathroom door open. When I came home from work around 11pm I saw the door was open. My crested gecko cage got knocked off the counter. Luckily for her and me the cage had latches and was unopened.

I am now a "shut the door" Nazi.

Hopefully your living situation will improve soon. Good luck!

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Originally Posted by Slashmaster

If your kitten can squeeze under the door, what's stopping her from doing that again to get to the snakes? Be careful. :C

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I'm definitely blocking the space from now on!

And thanks guys..at the moment I have no choice but to have cats in that room, I just didn't realize how much trouble this particular cat would get into being in there for a few hours.

I'll absolutely keep an eye out for infection on the baby. This cat is sort of chunky, so it still amazes me the lengths she'd go through just to get back into the other bedroom. As for the BP, I have two others in shoeboxes with lids like this and haven't had an issue..I chose them for the small brace they have to keep the sides stable.