How the heck do you feed "Plus some other stuff"

Well.. just keep being obsessed with snakes.. lol hopefully they will take pity on you and give in at some point. If not.. then you will be very knowledgeable about snakes, and when you have your own house, you can have whatever you want.

Well I'm the parent of 4 kids hon and 2 of them want their "own" snakes so even tho I love snakes I'm not giving them a free ride either. Here's our deal (btw they are 11 and 14 years old).

My son age 14 wants a male Nelson's Milksnake, his 11 year old sister wants a female Albino Nelson's Milksnake. Eventually they might even wish to breed them.

In order to get their snakes this is our deal with them both:

1) They have to do proper research on these snakes and join a decent forum where they will act respectfully and ask reasonable questions about their research.

2) They will save up 50 percent of the costs of purchasing the snakes, shipping the snakes and setting up seperate enclosures for them. The other 50 percent will be gifted from their step-father and I.

3) They have to feed their snakes and handle them responsibly, respecting the snake's limits.

4) We will cover the feeding costs for their snakes, in exchange they will clean all snakes cages, theirs and ours. We will cover vets costs which they will pay back with chores or small neighbourhood jobs.

5) If the only reasons they want these snakes are..."they are cool" or "they are pretty" then the answer will be no for now. Pretty and cool pass quickly, a long term interest in the snake is what we want to see them express first.

Mike and I feel that Luke and Beth are ready for their own snakes with guidance from us but they need to show us they are serious about this and it's not just a passing thing.

Btw, bugging one's parents endlessly ends up with the wrong result. I'd go with just being consistent and mature about why you want an "unusual" pet and your ability to care for it in the long term.



~~Jo~~

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Btw, bugging one's parents endlessly ends up with the wrong result. I'd go with just being consistent and mature about why you want an "unusual" pet and your ability to care for it in the long term.



~~Jo~~

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Yeah, I remember in my youth (never thought I'd be old enough to say that! LOL) hearing "if you ask ONE...MORE....TIME.....the answer's NO!" and boy did they ever mean it. Man was it ever hard for THIS chatterbox to keep her mouth shut if she really wanted something not to ask "one more time"! LOL

Just out of curiousity, how old are you? I know it was completely impossible for me to purchase a snake when I lived with my parents... there was no WAY mom was letting me get one. She still refuses to talk about it now... she tells me it's stupid. But I waited until I was in my own place and paying my own bills cause I wanted to respect her boundaries. She still, however, thinks I only have one when, in fact, I have two with two more on the way. I wonder how long I can hold out on THAT little lie...? :rolleyes: Probably not long... I HATE not being able to tell my mom everything!

Oh just a thought here. If you do end up getting a snake and your parents want nothing to do with it, what will happen to the snake if say you go away on a school trip or something? Or it gets ill and the vet bills mount up? It's really hard to a younger person to assume full responsibility for any pet if their parents aren't willing to be that wall to lean on sometimes.

My 14 year old son also would like a large spider. At this point, we've said no as I'm unfortunately gut scared of them. It's not fair to the spider (even if I can't stand them) for it to be in a household where if Luke was away from home, I'd be so scared to approach and care for his pet or know what to do with it in an emergency.


~~Jo~~

Well, to me, it's just common sense. Yeah, it's not fair that your parents don't enjoy the same things you do. But they pay the bills for the house, and it's just respectful not to bring something in that they don't like or are terrified of. I mean, if you were terrified of dogs, would you want someone bringing a dog into YOUR home? Yeah, it sucks being a kid and being dependent and having to do what your parents tell you... :( Just wait and see how much it sucks being an adult and independent and having to pay for all the stuff you want... :P

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Originally Posted by rex322

i would have aproblem if i fed them out of the cage, as you dont wanna see any of them after feeding, they look at me like food.

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No way in hell would I want to try and move Monty after a feed - that 'gimme more' gleam in his eyes scares me a little. :)

lol, i move my 4plus male every time after feeding cuz i feed him in a cardbord box so he dont get any bedding in his mouth. hes never bitten me, but i know what gleam your talkin abouthttps://ball-pythons.net/forums/images/icons/icon10.gif