You may all find my post humorous but I can sure you that Wes and I have had some intense fights over this issue.
Last month when I was shopping for a new colostomy bag cozy, Wes confronted me (he was there buying some peppermint scented coffee enemas) and was very angry about my anti-cohabitation stance. We kept it civil but it upset me to the point that I demanded that he return all of my ABBA cds immediately. That bitter old queen can buy his own version of "Dancing Goat".........damn dyslexia.......you all know what I meant to say.
Old schoolers like Wes cut their teeth on a lot of old husbandry myths - Wes believes that snakes can ingest bedding, I place all prey items on a lace doily, he also insists that pine bedding is safe, when we all know that it leads to prolapses, regurgitations, chronic diarrhea, explosive flatulence, hemipene dysfunction and fetal snake pine phenol syndrome.
I would suggest that all of you newbies read the extensive works of Melissa Kaplan to get some REAL information on how to properly keep snakes.