How many BP's take as much work as a dog? (Poll)

Difficult question. Once you get to a point in BPs, the work can increase exponentially. When you get to the point where you have to be raising and managing rat production to feed your collection, work increases a lot more than keeping f/t in your freezer or a few rat trios to feed a few snakes. Once you get to that point, I'd say that the work is more than the care required for a dog. However, my snakes do not greet me with wiggles and excitement every day when I come home from my day job, so I'll keep both!

I have two mastiffs and 50+ ball pythons. I also have 40 breeder tubs of rats to feed my snakes. I would say I spend far more time caring for the snakes and rats than I do the dogs. Yes I spend more time with my dogs but that is not caring for them. The dogs get fed twice a day and have 5 gallon auto watering dish that gets filled every other day(maybe daily in the summer) but they have a doggy door so they let themselves in and out. The rats get cleaned once a week which takes about 2 hours and food and water toped off between cleanings about 15-20 mins. The snakes get cleaned weekly which takes several hours and spot cleaned daily. This time a year when females are ponding food after laying and hatchlings are feeding every 4 days sometimes I am spot cleaning several times a day. For example I had to spot clean yesterday and around 4pm, again at 10pm, and again about 20mins ago. Even having two huge dogs I still spend more on rat food than I do dog food.

Difficult question for me, my last dog would tell us when he needed to "go outside" for bathroom/other. Daily food/water, and maybe a couple walks a week. We have a big back yard so he would run the fence line with 3 of our neighbors dogs.

My current dog is about as dumb as they come, frequently goes in the house, all though a little dog he's not so hyper and attention starved. He also runs in the back with the other dogs.

My first dog was almost no work outside of picking up poop out back and daily food/water.

Current dog a little more work.

My BP, seems like no work at all.

Neither compare to the 600g of fish tanks I had been doing weekly upkeep on the past 3-4 years.