Those of you breeding, what is your living situation?

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.