Snakes and cats?

My cat is an outside cat most of the time and when she does come into the room, the snakes show no signs of tension.

I have 5 cats that live in my room with all of my snakes and I have never had a problem. My cats are not interested in the snakes, and I haven't seen any extra activity out of the snakes if a cat is by the cage.

I have had to give my cats medicine and mix it with wet food, the snakes do get active and kind of look around like its feeding time when that happens.

I also have 3 pet rats and sugar gliders that live in my room and I know a couple people who keep all their feeder rats in the same room as their snakes, I haven't had any problems with that and I haven't heard of my friends having problems with that either.

Hi all, I'm new here.

I have a cat and have never experienced a behavior like that described in the first post, but I suffered a pretty nasty bite from a very tame BP male after handling the cat (and of course forgetting to properly clean my hands). My fault, and something to consider...

Regarding the cat, he completely ignores the snakes.

Cheers

My cats lay on top of the snake cages. Especially our deaf cat Sweetpea. She loves to bask under the heat lamp, lol. I had to put towels on all the tanks to keep the hair out.

None of the snakes seem to mind. My King snake Queen is in the tank with Sweetpea and I see it put in its banches all the time.

I have a hyper dog, and a very old but active and feisty cat. Both of them stay out of my room when I'm handling the snake. Since she's in her hide most of the time, the cat and dog are allowed in my room only when her tank is close. I use a Zilla critter cage which locks itself into place so I don't have to worry about the cat getting in. For the most part, she's never paid any attention to the snake. My dog on the other hand gets her nose into everything but that's just her nature. I keep both live and frozen rodents away from both animals to be on the safe side. It varies from animal to animal I think. If you've got a cat that shows interest in the snakes, keep it away and eventually it will learn that the snake room is off limits.

My dog is afraid of my snakes... Probably because I shoo her away everytime I have a snake out. She just associates the snakes with something that if messed with, will get her into DEEP trouble.

We've got four cats and they are all welcome in the snake/rat room when I'm in there. They don't bother the snakes or the rats (but that's mostly because I had rats as pets and I taught the kitties that rats are my toys not theirs), and the snakes don't care about the cats. Maybe it's because the it's such a little kitten? :confused:

hahah I actually just joined this forum so that I could make THIS THREAD but i see that you've beat me to it. I have a BP whos about 10 months old and about a foot and a half long maybe 2 feet but I recently adopted my uncle's cat after he passed away. This cat is pretty old and pretty chubby and it DOESNT like to leave my side. I havent been able to play with Jake (my bp) as often since Ive gotten this cat but I was wondering what would happen if I was to play with him or have him out and if my cat confronted him. I'm just worried that he might grab the cats face and contrict around his throat. Would taking him off be an impossible task or would it be easy. Is this even likely to happen?

My cat goes into my bedroom (where I have to two reptiles) and neither of them seem bothered. The cat has like no interest in the snake but a bit more when I'm holding the CWD since he has a long tail. I keep both of their cages secure though and the cat doesn't seem to connect that he can even get the reptiles. He's never tried.
But anyway, the snake never has seemed bothered and I got the cat about... three weeks after the snake.

My BP will do everything in its power to try to sneak out of the tank whenever my cat hops on my bed and sits there staring at it. Sometimes my BP will pause for a moment, but then try to squeeze through the top of my tank (the screen) and come out.

A sick part of me wants to see what happens lol, but Im not willing to let either one of them get hurt so I wouldnt ever.