Do you just pull them out for a minute and act like a conveyor belt for a bit? Or do you make a quiet space for them to "explore" a bit? Or perhaps do you take them out and sit with them in your lap?

I've let mine out to explore the environment around his tank. I don't let him stray too far, because that snake's snoot will boop himself where he shouldn't. I put certain things down to see "why" he's exploring. Mainly to figure out when he's "done." I figure once he finds nothing wrong or particularly interesting he wants to go back to sleep. Lazy butt that he is.

Though, this particular time it was when the cat pooped and the smell came into my room from his litter box... Cookie was utterly offended and most certainly wanted to go home after "smell-tasting" that.

Secondary question, how does your BP tolerate other pets?

Do they get distressed when they sense another animal? Do they attempt to find the other animals? Or do they get bothered and fired up?

Cookie has met a cat. And by "met" I mean she was in the same room as the BP and the BP was in my lap, and the cat was uncomfortably interested in him a meter or so away on the couch. He didn't seem tense or anything, so he must not have been as stressed out as I was. This cat looooves the wild garter snakes, and will catch them and "play" with them. As beautiful as this Maine Coone is... she is merciless. (Needless to say it wasn't very long until I took him back to his tank, so I almost doubt he had enough time to "sense" her? I honestly don't know to what extent they can smell things.)


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