Those of you breeding, what is your living situation?

Girlfriend and I are renting a home. Our landlady is deathly afraid of snakes but has agreed to pretend to be blissfully ignorant as long as they don't escape and wreak havoc ;) My income isnt dependent on breeding success, but once things get rolling a little stronger I should be in a better position regardless!

My opinion is that if you are at any point uncertain about living situation you shouldnt have any pets as you should worry about yourself before adding another life into the mix.

I live with my parents for community college, and I simply keep my snakes in my room. When I move to a uc in a couple years, I suppose I will have to find an apartment that allows snakes, and of course a nearby pet shop that sells mice/rats. I would not leave them home, and I'm pretty sure they aren't allowed in dorms (I wouldn't bring them in dorms anyway), so we'll see how that goes.

Only when I move into my own permanent house do I plan to breed my snakes.

I haven't bred yet, but plan to start this season. For now (and probably for a long time to come) I am a renter, since this area is just too expensive for me to buy anything. I've been in the same house for 2.5 years, and it's quite spacious for the city... but since I share it with roommates, the "snake area" is limited to my bedroom/bath.

Fwiw, I never actually told my landlord about the snakes, but he is very pet-friendly... he did see Delilah when I first got her, and only said "cool snake." So I imagine it's not a big deal, which is why I didn't bother mentioning the others. ;)

fiance and i own a 2 bedroom condo by the beach. my snakes are in the guest bedrooms walkin-ish closet. i can house 20+ snakes in it and i have a 4' x 2' x 2' incubator in there as well.

My fiance and I own a house. Our collection is in the basement. The basement was partially finished and I am in the process of knocking down walls and opening the whole thing up. They had the basement sectioned off into rooms like in the 70's. We think it looks better the way we are doing it. Anyway we are designating a whole section of the basement just for our snakes.

I do plan on breeding eventually, but not until after I graduate college and know a bit better what I'm doing. I plan on staying in my current apartment until I move somewhere to get a "big kid job" :P I just moved into this apartment over the summer, and I haven't mentioned the snakes, although the maintenance lady saw them (She saw one of my smallest ones and started talking about how HUGE he was!! :weirdface I didn't mention the fact that the others are bigger :P ) My landlords are pretty cool, which is actually why I don't have a problem paying a touch more to live here. They are both retired and really love working with the college students ("Your futures are all so bright!!") so I really don't think they would have a problem with them if they found out. I know that someone else has some sort of reptile though...I was walking to work and saw a tank with a red heat lamp on top of it through a different apartments open door.

When I move, I'm going to have to play it by ear, but I will most likely be in an apartment when I start breeding.

Im 14 lol and ALL the rooms in my house are taken, so for now the "snake room" for my small collection is my room and The qt room is my bros room in the basement (im on the second floor) also my breeding project is VERY SMAll my god what i would give for my .1 pastel to be a adult for my spider :) Ahh, well thats 2-3 years away :(

This season will be my first one breeding. I currently own a home and am in the process of turning my guest room into a snake room! I bought my house in May (as a 23 year old single mom, might I add:) ) and I'm LOVING it!

I live with my parents...
which...is nice, free rent... Plus my dad and i borrow males from each other.
Sharing, is caring. :D

(They are home owners though.)

for all you renters out there....make 2 end tables and a coffe table that doubles as racks....end tables make up 32qt/15qt rack coffe table could be 41qt:gj:

im in an apt, i own 3 snakes, when i move into a house i definitely want a few more, whenever i own a house i will start breeding

I own my house. Mortgage kinda stinks but at least its mine and mine alone.

My husband and I rented, when we were breeding BPs, (no more than four clutches; nothing huge) up until last year when we moved. Our landlord was fully aware of our snakes and breeding activities; even my large rat-breeding area. He would even stop in to check on the progress of the eggs, etc.

Some people will lie to landlords, or just omit the facts that they have snakes. In Cali, we lived there for a few months, and we did tell the apartment managers about the snakes; they were super-cool about them, and did not even charge us the per-head pet-rent on them (though we had to pay $25 a month extra for our cat!)

Now, we are renting from Mom's Hotel (lol) and I only have one (soon to be two) snake(s.) I cannot breed them here, for space constraints, and also because I would be pushing our luck with Mom by expecting her to fork over house space for an incubator, etc. CAN't WAIT to buy a house in the coming years!

My husband, kids and I rent a three-bedroom home. The rental application asked us to decribe out pets on one line, so I wrote "small harmless snakes in cages and one 50 pound dog." They never asked us how many snakes but were very concerned that the dog not be a rottweiler or pitbull! I was fully prepared to tell them that I own over 50 snakes and breed (primarily corn snakes).... but I guess the owners weren't too worried about it. Since moving into our house over a year ago, the property management company guy has stopped by for a couple of inspections and has commented that he thinks my snake are pretty cool. Works for me!

We rent a 2 bed-2 baths apartment. We have been living here for 3 years, with a pet limitation of 2 cats. I adopted a 3rd cat from the animal hospital I work at 1.5 years ago, he was an orphan kitten that I had to bottle feed or he would have not survived. So far they don't even know about the 3rd cat as I keep the place in order and clean.

We also have about 16 turtles right now, 6 that are babies as one of our couple bred with no planning really. I have 4 turtle tanks in the living room and all the landlords say when they come in is how nice it looks compared to other tenants places.

So when we added the BP we kept it in our bedroom, and now I have 3 BP in a rack by my dresser that you can barely see. I don't plan on telling them about the snakes as it doesn't cause any problem and is not worth mentionning. We do plan on buying our own house in 1-2 years so we should have our own place by the time they are ready to breed :)

As other mentionned, the fire risk from other apartments in the complex always scares me. I don't have any "rare" animals so in the event of a fire where I would be unable to save all my animals I would be able to replace them, but it does bother me. Some people around here are idiots, truly.

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Originally Posted by SlitherinSisters

That's exactly what I was thinking. When you are in an apartment you aren't the only person that can burn the place down. That's a scary thought in itself. People are stupid! Our apartment almost got burned down because our upstairs neighbor threw his cigarettes over the railing and onto our balcony and one of those times it just happened to fall in the trash can that I thought was safely out of his reach, poof there went our balcony that was made of wood. It got hot enough to melt our curtains before I was able to put it out.

And also the fact of never knowing your next living situation, or other apartment dwellers finding out you have snakes and getting them banned from the apartment building-a really easy thing to have done.

We own a house, just bought it in September.

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Although I completely agree that you really cant trust anyone.. I dont see much of a difference between if I lived there by my self or if so with a bunch of snakes.

Bad things can happen anywhere. Even a house you own can burn down due to outside influences (lightning surge, poor wiring, appliance malfunction..etc).

But I am also not a huge worrier. Life happens whether you want it too or not. The good and the bad all comes down to a bunch of random events. We just hope those random events are for the better, not the worse. :D

I own my house. I have a tri level three bedroom house. One room is dedicated just to snakes. And actually is getting filled up quite fast. I have AP cages in there and ARS racks. When you live in a house, (like the other person said) it gets rediculous how fast and big your collection grows, which seems to be over night.

Some issues ive ran into is. Humidity, esp this time of the year. The bedroom window leaking cold air. The walls not being insulated good enough. Also running out of outlets.

Some fixes i did were as follows: Shrink wrapped plastic around the window. Put a space heater in the room and shut off the vent. The room is set for 76 degrees. I also put a warm mist humidifier in the room that's got my room humidity set to 60% to even 80%. Just gotta stay on top of it cause it sucks down the water quickly. This summer i plan on putting the snakes into a different room (a larger one), that i'm going to be completely redoing for them. I want to put Green board dry wall up (cause of the humidity levels). Insulate them really good and get new windows put in. Also adding a few extra outlets. LOL...anyhow hope this helps....Have a good one. Oh and i forgot. I want to add floor base heaters and have them wired up to a thermostat to heat the room as appossed to the radiator heater.

Later,
Damen

Wow.... surprised how many people rent yet still have big snake collections:O
I own a single family home on 13 acres. Pretty much allows me to do what ever when ever I want. It kinda sucks in the summer though as it takes me most of the day to cut the grass...lol. I am always doing home projects and such though. I have my Saltwater Aquarium room and now my Ball Python room:cool:

I rent a duplex. Currently looking for a house. I'm actually very lucky to have such a large collection and still be able to rent. Any other landlord would run the other way.

My wife and I own a home.

We have a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home. We have 1 child, 37 snakes, 1 great dane, 1 house cat and each other. Our son uses 1 bedroom, my wife and I use another, and the snakes all share the "spare/snake room". There are 4 racks and an incubator in the "spare/snake room" as well as this computer. My business partner Seth, is also married and owns a home. He runs the rat portion of our business. We have about 100 working, plumbed rat bins (in racks of course) in his detached garage, with just a little over 300 breeding rats. That portion is constantly growing and there is constantly work to be done, more racks to be built, etc. My free time revolves around my family and animals. I live in my "spare/snake room" at least 4-6 hours a day and the other 4 hours of free time I have is usually spent with my family. My schedule however is never the same. I work my days around what times I work my fulltime job, what needs to be done for my business and when and if my boy is available to do something because he plays sports and has lots of homework so time with him is rare. It's hectic and never ending, but you get used to it. You'll learn very quickly breeding ball pythons that patience is key and your vision will never end.

We own our house, so the reptiles have a room dedicated to them.

When we first got together though, I already had a couple of reptiles, and we had an apartment. We were not supposed to have them, but I was not going to part with them as I had rescued them and they were my "babies".. so we snuck them in..

No issues, but at the time it was only a small handful. They never saw them on the occasional check.. lol.

My fiance and I rent a small 2B townhouse. This is our second year breeding. We currently have 4.7 ball pythons, two cockatiels, a cat, and we raise our own feeders. There are no pets allowed in our fourplex but we did talk them into the cockatiels. (Didn't think I could pull off hiding those :P) We have always had to hide our critters in several rentals and never had a problem. Except last year we only had one egg to show for our efforts of breeding...we will never move during breeding season again. We do take caution to avoid problems:

All snakes are in rack systems so "non-snake ppl" just think the racks are storage or furniture.
All rats are in dark colored storage tubs so you can't see into them.
We only use pelleted pine bedding for our rats. *We learned the hard way to finally use this and we HIGHLY reccommend it. Our tubs last three weeks before cleaning and NO SMELL!! We have had many compliments on the lack of smelly rats.*
All trash bags used for the animals/bedding are black so you can't see through them.
Our neighbors do not know about the animals.
All animal supplies are moved in/out of the house under the cover of darkness :cool:

The snakes, rats, and incubator have one room. My fiance, the cat, and I in another. The birds get the living room. I don't worry about losing my animals because we would leave before giving them up. Luckily we have family and friends that are ok with lending a hand if something crazy ever came up. Since it does stress my hubby about hiding them though, this summer we do have plans to move into a cheaper small 2B apartment. They do allow animals and are ok with caged critters. I have to say I'm very much looking forward to it, that way we can focus more on our breeding and saving for a house. There were several small apts over the years, between 3 roomates we had 100+ feeders, 8 snakes, a baby lamb for a week, a bloodhound, 2+ cats, and several rabbits that knowone ever knew about!:D:gj:

I rent a decent size apartment but lets just say that my gf is not pleased with our living room situation... good thing I don't care haha!

ive got 9 and im in a two bedroom apartment. roomate is cool with them, because theyre in my room, but i'm moving out this summer into a bigger place so I can expand my ASF colonies, and, inevitably, my snake collection

We are in a one bedroom condo. My parents own it so I am a little unclear about the regulations for pets. One of our neighbors is on the board for the complex and apparently she sees both our dogs every morning when Corey is taking them out. I know they have size restrictions but I think that as long as we pick up after our dogs, don't let them run a muck, and not cause problems within the community, I won't have any problems. We also have concrete in between each unit as a fire guard.

Snake rack just got moved from our living room to the computer niche where we knocked out the built in desk. Tadpole drawer and QT rats next to snake rack. Frog rack is next to the TV in the living room, other frog tanks and stands are also in the living room and one 10 gallon on the bar. Crested geckos are also in the living room. Bearded dragon vision cage "rack" is next to the table. Hog Island is in the bedroom. Rats on the porch covered up with an old shower curtain. Virginia Opossum also on her blankets in the living room. And a German Shepherd mix and a Chi-weener-russel and two human slaves.


I make sure to clean up right away after rat changing day and keep the outside of the apartment looking clean and tidy. If I do get a curious neighbor about the rats, I will just tell them I rescue neglected rats and adopt them out.
They probably think we are growing pot because the frog rack lights are on all day and the plant lights do put off a strange glow.

I rent an apartment I have 10 BP's I have a bedroom just for my reptiles my landlords are cool with it I even have tape wrapped around my snake room door that says "enter at your own risk" and a sign that says "Snake room" everyone around here knows me.. I have my snakes outside when it's warm of course i have problems with some tenants thinking that me being outside with them is dangerous and that i let them "swim in the pool" that as my favorite since I don't go into the courtyard ever with the snakes i go to the field on the opposite side of the building... i'm rambling sorry but you just gotta keep your stuff tidy and find the right people/ place I found this place before we decided to breed i had 1 when we moved in and the landlord thought it was cool lookin it was my male pastel who lived in a fish tank... now i built a rack and have 10 that will breed eventually I have had 1 lock but part of me says wait til next year so i'm going to do that but if the lock produces more pinstripes then that 1 lock would have been successful i didn't feel any follicles so i doubt it

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