Snakes + other animals?

Do any of you let your snake 'interact' with other animals(besides their food!) ? If so, how's their reaction? Are any of them ''friendly''?

Last night, while showing a friend my ball python, our pug sitting nearby got super curious and sniffed at his tail for a while. We laughed as the snake seemed interested and nosed at her, flicking his tongue a little bit. The entire time, he wasn't tense and could easily leave and retreat back into my robe pocket. But to my surprise, after the pug began to sniff the snake's face, he did a bluff strike at her and just about scared her to death! It's the first time he's ever done even a bluff strike at ANYTHING besides his food!

So now I know, no more interactions between them, even if he two physically couldn't hurt one another. I'm curious, have any of you let your snakes be near other animals?

We have 2 dogs. 1 shows no interest in snakes and 1 is puppy like and interEstee in everything. Everything from my hatchlings to adults have shown 0 interest in the dogs which are small and medium size.

I have cats. I do not let the cats ever touch the snakes but they can be out together....under my supervision and I have the snake on my body. The snakes are never wandering with cats out. I never have my pueblan out with other snakes. I don't want a snake to be another snakes food.

My retic will gladly use my pitbull as a ladder for getting to other things to climb. Both of the could care less about the other.

Some cats want to try to play with smaller snakes, thinking they are a fun piece of string. I've seen other cats keep a cautious distance from a snake but still semi fascinated. If a cat is in the room the snakes don't leave my hand, because I don't trust the cats.

I used to have 2 cats (rip), one of which became facinated by the snakes after a friend’s neonate boa escaped the enclosure I was provided to babysit him in. The cat and boa were nose to nose under the kitchen table and she was purring at it. Neither were freaked out and afterward she would sit next to the tank I put him in (with secure clasps) and watch him and purr. After that I would have to lock her in another room to keep her away from any snippier snakes. If I had one of the calm ones out, she’d come sit next to me and purr at whoever I was holding.

I have 2 dogs & they have only mild curiosity about the snakes I've always had (even before they moved in) but I'd never allow them to sniff nose-to-nose
with any of my snakes, because that can just turn bad way too quickly. I DO allow my dogs to satisfy a bit of curiosity by sniffing a snake's tail while I hold
them (facing away from the dogs) but I'd never allow any floor-time between them. My dogs are playful, they could step on a snake, and the snakes would
be absolutely within their rights to defend themselves from what can only appear to them to be a predator...it's not worth the risk, IMO.

Just tell me...what would you do if your snake suddenly sunk their teeth into your dog's nose? How ugly would that be!? Your dog (or cat) would freak & it
would be a miracle if your snake didn't get the worst of the injuries.

3 snakes and two cats and definitely a no exceptions rule they do not interact together. My cat Cobra is interested in anything that moves and it’s attack first investigate later. Not dealing with claw holes in snakes or worse. Every one gets along better away from each other.

I have two dogs and a cat. They have never interacted with my snake and they never will. Things could turn ugly in a split second so why risk it?

My cat can care less about anything but the crickets I feed my leopard geckos.

My Dog on the other hand..... she is hyper focused on needing to know about ANY other animal I interact with. For her, I have her put into a sit and then 'be nice'. Which means I will let her gently sniff the animal. Sometimes she gets a little bit of a nudge in, which is why I never let the other animals left alone or in a careful hold. Usually once she gets a little sniff tho she'll let me finish up my business.

Snakes are always held gently but with the first 1/3 held away from the dog to prevent any strikes. She gets to sniff the back end.
Leopard geckos, she gets to sniff the more front half so they don't freak out about a nudge to the tail.
Small pets like rats or chinchilla get a bit more freehandling while they're in my lap. She's allowed to go up to their cages and sniff them through the bars.

The only animal she's obviously allowed to interact freely with is the cat.
I would never let any other animals interact freely. The reptiles always have the cages clamped or locked when not working with them. The dog is never allowed to be any animals during feeding or my one especially defensive ball python.

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Originally Posted by Kira

I have two dogs and a cat. They have never interacted with my snake and they never will. Things could turn ugly in a split second so why risk it?

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Exactly!!!! My snakes have never met my cat, or my ferrets or each other for that matter....and never will.
It's simply not worth the risk. We're talking animals who are wild animals at their core. They are primal animals with primal instincts who are all much quicker than I am when they want to be.

Not worth it. In my opinion, it's for our own benefit that we would have multiple animals out at once, and irresponsible.

I know I would feel like a pretty hefty sack of excrement if something happened to one of my animals when it could have so easily been prevented.

Bottom line: snakes and other pets don't mix, period.

My Zelda great dane and rainbow my reticulated python were out at the same time. The dogs know that if I have a snake that getting near me pisses me off so they tend to keep their distance. I was sitting on the couch one day holding Rainbow and Zelda walks up from behind and Zelda gives her a big sloppy lick across the top of her head. Zelda never licks anything. Rainbow just sat there like "What just happened?" and froze for a moment. Now I keep the dogs up when I have them out. Not worth the risk. Both of them could hurt the other and that is not a fight I want to be in the middle of.

I have two cats. And when I let my snake roam in his room I have the door closed to avoid any interaction between snake and cat. I just feel like, although my cats are sweet they might want to play with the moving noodle baby. And while the intentions are innocent it could potentially harm my snake. Also I feel as though it would be scary for him I imagine the world is a very scary place to be a little guy when no arms or legs and only a mouth to really defend himself

Now that being said when I do have him out with them is when he is on my shoulders or in my hand wrapped around my arm where he can feel safe knowing that I'm a safe spot for him. And even then he's only with us all for like 15 mins.

Also my roommate has a dog and we don't let them interact either better safe than sorry. I don't mind them in the same room so long as I am carrying/holding the noodle.

As his human it's my job to protect him and provide him with a good safe and stress free home. [emoji1474][emoji3]

One of my cats has killed wild garter snakes in the yard a few times. I'm not sure how things would go down if he met one of my BPs, but I don't want to find out!

On one rare occasion did I try to do this with my bearded dragon. I was watching tv with my beardie when my cats approached him out of curiosity. I keep them at an arm's length distance from Aegon. After a few minutes have passed and I was back to watching tv, one of my cats pounced on him who was sitting on my lap. My beardie instinctively jumped away and landed on the coffee table before the cat got him. I got scratched by my cat after she landed on my lap but fortunately my beardie got away just in time. Never again do I bring my exotic pets out while my cats and dogs are in the room.

Cats are cats first, same for dogs, no matter how domesticated they are. One scratch and one bite can do a number on your reptile. If you check out the Reptile Doctor from Australia on Facebook, there are some pics of blue tongue skinks with guts hanging out because their pet dog got too curious.

I never let my cats and snakes interact or get close to one another (or my dog when I had a dog).
Yes normally they would ignore each other but better safe than sorry, there have been stories posted on this site and others about injuries and the rare death.

Thanks for all the input! Yes, I will definitely be keeping my snake and other pets separate now, I do agree that it's not worth the risk. I got a little bit caught in the moment of them approaching one another curiously; but it's definitely not something to do again!

Also, I recall cats have gram negative bacteria in their saliva(and thus claws) that can easily kill small animals and reptiles- plus cats can have a crazy prey drive. So I definitely agree that cats and reptiles do not mix!

I'm a new snake owner and I would like it if my snakes and dog (who is my baby) would get a long but I dont want to risk it. Even with the best of intentions if things went south I dont want my dog getting hurt or my snakes getting killed. Would be cool to have a group hug but the possibilities are just too ominous.

I have a cat who will look into the cages if the snake is moving about in the cage. So I have never had them out together. Also do not want claw holes in my snakes. Not worth the risk for either pets.

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Originally Posted by PhilyD

I'm a new snake owner and I would like it if my snakes and dog (who is my baby) would get a long but I dont want to risk it. Even with the best of intentions if things went south I dont want my dog getting hurt or my snakes getting killed. Would be cool to have a group hug but the possibilities are just too ominous.

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Yes please don’t risk it pretty please. For the sake and safety of your pets. Better safe than sorry. So sounds like a good idea [emoji3]


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I don't let my cat interact with Dean but she gets freaked out by his sheds :P I had one laying on the table and she stared at it for a solid five minutes and proceeded to leap in the air and run away when I said "What are you doin'?" :rofl:

Simply not worth risking putting any animal near a snake ..

Both are too unpredictable... imho .

I have a tiny Italian Greyhound ( think Jack Russel on stilts ) and many of my snakes ... Retic , Burm and King snakes all focus on him when he walks past or near their vivs ... he's too big to eat but they're switched on to movement..


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All my animals are way too food aggressive to meet... even my tortoise tries to chase down and eat most other animals. Lol

Nope, we shut doors and gates as needed around here to prevent the various animals from interacting with each other. No good reason to even risk it.