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

I live in a 3 room apt - livingroom, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom

I have 6 ball pythons, a bunch of bins with ASF and Rats
Now the new member is a 3 month old kitten

I feel sad because I cant hold my snakes and let them roam on me and the couch, I havent tried it yet, because I know the cat will probably try to play with the snakes as if they are toys, and Im scared of either of them hurting each other:tears:

Anyone have any bad experiences or any good experiences? All i can think of doing is locking the cat in the other room when holding the snakes. Any feed back would be good

In my house we have a german shepherd, 3 snakes, 3 cats, and a ton of fish.
My dog will look at the snakes but pays no attention to them, the slightly older female cat I let sniff my one BP and she hasn't came back into the room since, but the two kittens come in all the time and love watching my boa as hes the only one they get a good view of. The littlest kitten will actually sleep on top of the boa's enclosure and the boa will come out of his hide and raise up directly under him smelling him.

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Originally Posted by escomaya

I live in a 3 room apt - livingroom, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom

I have 6 ball pythons, a bunch of bins with ASF and Rats
Now the new member is a 3 month old kitten

I feel sad because I cant hold my snakes and let them roam on me and the couch, I havent tried it yet, because I know the cat will probably try to play with the snakes as if they are toys, and Im scared of either of them hurting each other:tears:

Anyone have any bad experiences or any good experiences? All i can think of doing is locking the cat in the other room when holding the snakes. Any feed back would be good

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Just pay close attention to them both when you have them together. I think it should be ok you just can NEVER leave the two alone together.

Mike

It's good that it's a kitten in the sense you can get him accustomed to the BPs while he's young. You can never leave them alone, but you can have them out at the same time if you pay close attention.

All my cat sees when we looks at my Pythons is.. "FOOOODDD"

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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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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Do you breed the mice for snakefood or are they actually pets? I know a few people with rats for actual pets and they hate i feed them to my snakes. :P

My cat actually ripped apart a cardboard petco box and killed the mice once. o_0

Im really not worried about the rats, I have them low in tubs from herp apple, wateva the place is called i 4get, with metal grids on top so the kitten cant get to them, he sometimes jumps on the grids and watches them run around scared. I have had my snakes out in the room with the kitten yet, dont know how to go about but cautiously lol, i guess there is no real way but by just doing it and using my own common sense

I have rats, a cat, and a snake. She's actually a kitten, and not much bigger then the rats. She got bit pretty hard by the really big one, and hasn't bothered them since. The snake tried to strike at her once, so we keep her away when he's out.

I have rats in a rack, but the two cats are more interested in stealing the lab block so that they can chase it all over the apartment. Apparently lab block is an awesome cat toy. So awesome, that I had to put a cereal box on top of the bottom bin feeder, so Sammy would quit stealing it (plus it hurt to step on it if you didn't see it in the dark).

Lexi is the younger of the two cats (less than a year old), but she's learned the word "NO!" and stops in her tracks. She likes to sit next to me when I clean snakes, and has more fun chasing the paper towel I'm using to rub down the tub (from the outside of the tub, while I'm wiping down the inside) than messing with the snakes.

When she was younger, she did want to "play" with the snakes when I had them out, but a quick "Lexi, NO!" was a good deterent. And Diamond the dog doesn't care a bit about either.

Remember though even the most laid back housecat is still a predator at heart, even more so than a pet dog. Do keep an eye on your cat around the snake or simply keep them apart as much as possible or teach the cat to avoid the snakes completely. Using a spray bottle, a sharp handclap or NO, shaking a can full of small stones at the cat, even imitating a cat's angry hiss - all those things can condition a cat to avoid something.

I do have one rescue here that was badly clawed as a young snake when her previous owner's pet cat, who liked to lay on the snake's enclosure mesh lid, fell through it when it collapsed one day. One of our cats likes to lay on lids like that but a handy spray bottle is teaching Sebastian that he can't do that in our house.

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.