When reading posts on this sight I seem to get the feeling there are two completely different ways of looking at these beautiful animals.
One is a almost clinical tending to the snakes needs to the letter and time scheduled to the minute in plain but very clean tubs only to come out for a meal so as to not stress. Like collecting baseball cards to be looked at and admired not touched
Two is more like a pet maybe in a decked out glass or plexi aquarium. Taking out the snake for handling and even going outside on a nice day getting to know its personality
i feel I'm a mix but maybe puts me out of both groups. I bought a pet store snake and all the zilla stuff I could find. After getting home doing more research I saw rack systems and thought that was a nice size so I could expand my collection so I have both now and 4 ball pythons from little guys to a full grown girl that give my food scale a err code on the screen. I like the ease of cleaning the tubs and it does exactly what it's supposed to. no water fountain or vines strictly function streamlined.
I like to handle my snakes often for a couple of reasons, with two young daughters the last thing I want is a strike and them be scared of snakes so to socialize them and also to exercise, I maybe way off base and get blasted for this but I let them explore if they want stretch and climb on things. I know in there tubs they can't get more vertical than the 8 or 10 inch tub.
Im not stupid and I expect I will be bit eventually and 50years of domestication will not erase millions of years of instinct but I do see a personality to these animals and even if it's only food associated love I'll take it
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