CAT??? with snakes?? and rats???

I keep the GF's dog in a seperate room when I have the BP's out. I don't know that anything bad would happen, but I'm not willing to take the risk, or stress the snakes because the dog is pretty hyper.

I now have 1-6ft boa and 1-2ft(maybe) ball. My roommate has two cats. Whenever I have the snakes out, I usually shut them out the room that I'm in with the snakes. I'd rather just shut the cats out and play with the snakes than have something terrible happen regardless of how much you think you can suspect when a cat wants to play/attack a snake.

We lock our cats in the bathroom and gate off our dogs when the snakes are out. Don't want to take any chances of either getting hurt.

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Originally Posted by llovelace

We have 5 snakes, rats, mice, ferrets, and 2 cats. I just keep a water bottle next to me when I have a snake out and one of the cats come around they get squirted. :)

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lol i have a kitten that can get quite saturated from my spray bottle on feeding days. the only time she is of any bother she just loves the idea of getting that rodent

We have 6 corns,1 BP, and 7 cats. In the beginning the cats were very interested in the snakes' tanks but as time has gone on they've lost interest. We trained them with a squirt bottle to stay away from the tanks and if one of them comes close to us while holding a snake they get a squirt too. Now, the cats will rarely even come into the same room if they see one of us has a snake out. Of course, with the cats, my tanks are on double duty lock down! I trust them to leave them be while I'm there,but, I don't trust any of them when I'm not around.