What is the funnest thing you do with your snake?

[jxk]

Mine like to play computer games with me. Akashi, Koroku, Kuri, and Mauro are all computer junkies.

Nago is a napper, he like to sleep with his head on my shoulder when I read.

Kina loves a good game of hide and seek under the blanket on my bed.

Toki is a model, she loves to see how long she can hold a pose.

Mystic and Yakul just play turtle with me.

Little Okoto likes to play tug-o-rat with me, so I watch my fingers with him.

Little Kodama doesn't come out to play yet, he doesn't trust me.

Gale

This is fascinating to me. I'm floored by the degree of personification attributed to each animal, as if they have likes and dislikes and cognitive opinions or hobbies. I'm imagining a snake anxiously banging into its tank or tub in frustration until it gets the opportunity to come watch you play videogames or something.

I suppose 'playing turtle', 'hide and seek', etc., is a friendly way of saying the animal is fearing for its life and defensively avoiding predation by a much-larger, unfamiliar animal.

Forgive me if your post was meant to be humorous. I just find the mentality of it all very interesting, akin to people speaking baby-talk to a dog, or smaller animals automatically being considered cute. We humans are strange creatures.

[PixieMaple]

@ SpartaDog

You are my hero for taking your snake to Hollister... seriously.

[AkHerps]

Yeah I think people over anthropomorphize animals wayyy too much.

I take mine out once a week or so, just to get him used to handeling as he is still really young, I don't want him to be overly shy or aggressive as an adult.

I mainly hold him to check on his physical appearance and make sure he still looks healthy.

I sometimes turn my heating blanket on to low and let him curl up and take a nap while I play on the lap top on the bed.

[Generationshell]

My Bp loves to curl up into my hair and chill there for at least 30 mins until I try to untangle him. I guess he just has a thing for my nice toasty head.

[PixieMaple]

anthropomorphization, I think, comes naturally for a lot (if not all) people (I mean stuff like baby talking and calling your pet cute). I think it's "normal" and okay, as long as the individual realizes that animals are animals - they don't "love" you and basically function on an instinctual level only. Your snake does not "enjoy" its activities with you

[AkHerps]

I think it's "normal" and okay, as long as the individual realizes that animals are animals - they don't "love" you and basically function on an instinctual level only. Your snake does not "enjoy" its activities with you

Yes, I talk to my dog all the time, haha, and say excuse you after she burps or farts lmao and bless you if she sneezes xP But I think a lot of people really DO think their reptiles enjoy being out with them and seek out their attention.

Bearded dragons on the other hand...I have seen some that literally beg for you to take them out, and fly onto your arm when you reach in...but I think they just see you as being able to get out of their house, not you as the enjoyment factor.

[angllady2]

Perhaps I do humanize them a little bit much, but over the course of months of interaction and observation, my statements are true enough.

For example, while my large male pastel Koroku will sit patiently on my lap and watch me play computer games for 30-40 minutes without complaint, he does not like to be on my bed with me and will constantly try and get down to the floor and leave.

In contrast, my mojave female will not sit still on my lap no matter what, but if I put her on my bed, she'll crawl under my blanket, poke her head and neck out and just lie there and watch me for however long I am willing to sit there.

My largest het pied female, I am convinced likes to play statue. Whenever I take her out, she'll explore me for a few minutes, then she'll simply "freeze" in one position and just stay there. After 5 or 6 minutes, she'll move around again, and then she "freezes" again. It's ritual she always does.

Both my pied boy and my husbands abused normal boy are very shy and so mostly just stay balled up when we get them out. But if we are patient and very still, eventually they'll peek their heads out and look around. But, if you move, just like a turtle their heads disappear.

I know they are "only" animals, and as snakes they don't show affection and act mainly on instinct, but if my snakes eat every week, shed and poo and grow as they should, don't act stressed out by our time together, and stay healthy, why shouldn't I enjoy my computer junkies, my napper, my turtles and my supermodel ? Even if they are only "snakes" to anyone but me.


Gale

[stormshadow]

Anybody who think snakes don't have different personalities obviously hasn't read up on their evolution. Of course animals have different physical or mental characteristics - that's the story of life. Do they like playing hide and seek? Do they like playing video games? No, they do not. Do they like coming out to explore? Do some like to be handled? Yes, for sure they do.

My snake comes out everyday except for the first 2 days after he eats. He likes to explore and is very nosey! Sometimes I think people make excuses up that snakes don't like coming out because they can only provide a 'once a week' quick handling.

[ed4281]

Mine like to sit on my lap as I watch TV or work on the laptop. Humanizing your animals is perfectly normal and who is to say what an animal likes or dislikes. I have yet to meet a person who could communicate with them. I don’t think my snake love's me they are a primal creature that are basically pure instinct. I think they view me as "THE GREAT BRINGER OF RODENTS". My dogs however being sentient self aware animals, I have no doubt that they love me.

[SpartaDog]

@ SpartaDog

You are my hero for taking your snake to Hollister... seriously.

Try it, seriously. But don't take em into Forever 21....Someone will rat you out and they'll kick you out XD

I love bringing my snake to the mall. I even got a shirt airbrushed with his picture there.