Rules of allowing snakes to Roam

I would be very interested to hear more about that tegu as well. Fortunately my house humidity is fine for my beardie, he spends a few hours a day running around the house unsupervised and always makes it back to his cage when he's done.
My snakes on the other hand would be gone in a second if I left them unwatched.
Building a small climbing jungle gym for them when they are out would be a way you could allow them to roam without having to sit there and hold them

I don't let any of my snakes roam when I'm not watching them with 100% of my attention and within arm's reach. It's just too easy for them to disappear on you. I do let my box turtle roam around the reptile room while I'm feeding everyone else, but I know her quite well, and even if she did decide she wanted to hide... she's a turtle, so there aren't that many options for her lol.

Well I can't find that post again anywhere. It's possible that the original poster deleted it, I guess. Wish I had saved it.

I know that low humidity can have a bad impact on humans and their skin and respiratory system (something about the mucous membranes in the RS not being able to function properly, leaving us more susceptible to airborne viruses like the cold and flu) but I don't know any specifics about the tegu or any reptiles in that regard. I tried looking information up but I think I'm a terrible Googler. Maybe someone could disprove this whole thing and I'll feel silly for believing a Tumblr post, of all things :rolleyes:

Oh give me a home,
Where the ball pythons roam,
Where the rats and the ASF play....

:P

As for free roaming, none of my balls get to. My rtb doesnt get to either. Only time they are off of me and able to 'roam' im right there watching closely regardless of whats going on around me. Theyre always within arms reach. And even then Osirus and Ahri are the only two who get a little more freedom. Theyre the ones who dont 'seem' to want to explore farther away, but i still dont trust them entirely. They both have spent a lot of time sitting with me on my shoulder whilst im on my computer or playing assassins creed, but they tend to stay with me on my shoulders, osirus tries to help with the game and comp by slithering all over my hands or shoving her face in mine and flickin her tongue up my nose. If I tried with sirius, hed slither away. But, it helps that im hyper sensitive to feeling when it comes to that, I can feel instantly when theyre on the move.


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I vaguely recall that story about the tegu, but can't remember where I read it.
Could have been any one of countless sites.

There was a story awhile back about a woman who was in the habit of taking the T (boston subway) with her boa (don't know what kind) Penelope. One day Penelope slithered out of her jacket and the woman didn't notice. The T personnel helped her search the train, and they didn't find the snake. The happy ending is that a month later, Penelope was found unharmed, hiding somewhere in the same train, and reunited with her owner. The stupid part of the ending is that the T tried to charge the owner several hundred bucks for disinfecting the train because the snake had been living there, and the owner refused to pay it because she said the T personnel had been disrespectful.
The even stupider part is that she went right back to carrying her snake around on the train.

Apparently there isn't actually a rule against doing that, as long as it isn't rush hour. Actually, it's kind of amazing to me that the owner didn't get into more trouble, and that they actually let her have the animal back. I also wonder what kind of $650 cleanup was necessary after occupation by a snake who couldn't possibly have pooped *that* much. Also, while obviously going a month without eating would be no problem, I can't help but wonder whether Penelope actually did maybe catch herself an unwary critter that came out to scavenge for spilled french fries.