Help-dog and snake?????????

[dgring]

recently, when I've been holding my lovely female normal cleo downstairs, (quite the energetic) my dog (cavapoo) is seeing her move and getting interested and walking up and cleo is smelling, tongue out and all, is there a way of getting them friendly so they don't care about each other (I'm not asking for best mates) so if any of you have a dog as well as herps that have a good relationships, plz tell me the trick.

[dgring]

If i put them together wat will happen, its a young bp and a small dog, will they fight???

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What about my other herps, lizards,frogs… but i hold her the most so she's the biggest problem and i bring her downstairs cause she's calm

[jclaiborne]

I keep my reptiles seperate from my furry friends. Could it be ok, maybe, but why risk it. All it would take is one mistake and you could have a dead reptile on your hands. That just my 2 cents.

[satomi325]

If you put them together, the snake will probably ball up from being spooked. The dog will most likely stress her out.
It's best to keep your snake and dog away from each other.

[LLLReptile]

My dog grew up around the snakes and is pretty much completely unfazed by them, which is ideal. He doesn't come up to smell them or even care that I'm working with them, although given the opportunity he'll roll in snake poop. If he's in a room with me while I have snakes or lizards out, he'll stay away, which is what I've taught him. The only grey area is the blue tongues, because he'll steal their food and vice versa...

As others have pointed out, it's stressful for the snake to have the dog around and all about it, so it's best to teach the dog to just ignore the snake. One way to do this is to teach your dog the "leave it" command, which helps for immediate concerns, and teach it that you having the snake out is incredibly boring for the dog. Don't give the dog any attention, don't look at it, don't acknowledge it at all - just walk away and ignore it any time you have the snake out and the dog is coming up to it. Be sure to give the dog attention when the snake isn't out, even more so if the dog has left you and the snake alone while you have the snake out. It's even easier if you give the dog something else to do first - a bone or toy to chew on, or a bed to go and lay down on when you want to be left alone.

The snake, naturally, will want to smell what's around it, but that doesn't mean you should try the whole 'friends' thing - while it may seem okay at first, the dog can change its mind, and so can the snake. My parents' dogs are not nearly as reptile friendly as mine, and while one of their great danes is very sweet and has not bothered smaller animals before, he saw my mom holding a snake and after sniffing it, tried to nibble on it (without success). Danes are big enough that it's pretty hard to hold things out of their reach, and after he failed to be as indifferent to the reptiles as the other dogs, the next month was spent teaching him to ignore them. He'll obey the "leave it" command now, but just to be safe, none of their dogs are allowed in the room when the snakes are out these days.

Animals are animals; they can be unpredictable. Keep 'em separate.

-Jen

[MootWorm]

First off, if you put them together and things don't go as planned, there won't be a fight. The dog will kill your snake. I wholeheartedly agree with training your dog to ignore the herps. It really comes down to knowing your animals. I have two dogs with very different personalities. Daisy, I wouldn't trust her within 15 ft of my snakes. Kevin is a whole nother story. He's encountered one of my snakes before... He licked her tail, sat down and whimpered. That was it. But this is a dog I could leave unattended with a bucketful of pinkies, worst he would do is groom them. But seeing as you have an energetic dog bred for hunting, I definitely would not risk it.

[jasonmcgilvrey83]

Its best to keep them a part. A friend of mine has a cat and snake that get a long but u can never tell what's going to happen. Foe both animals safety its better that way.

[Bugmom]

Both of my dogs have been bit. One was a defense bite, one was a food bite. Neither even broke the skin on the dog, but still. The Dachshund keeps his distance now. The coonhound still wants to be friends with the snakes. I shoo them outside/out of the room when doing anything that requires I get the snakes out or when feeding. I don't advocate letting furry pets and herps mix because bites can and do happen - BOTH ways. If a dog can't be trained to leave the snakes alone, then they should not be around when the snakes are out.

[Inarikins]

My dogs don't interact with my snakes for one simple reason: rattlesnakes. I don't want them getting comfortable with snakes and approaching a rattler (because they will, because I know my dogs) and getting bit by one. If I have a snake out and a dog nearby and she comes towards the snake, I correct her until she backs off. If I wasn't in a place where there are rattlesnakes that could kill my dog, then I would probably let them get closer together. Would I leave my snake alone with a dog? Heck no. Something happens and the snake is dead. But as far as being in the same room together and the dog sniffing the snake while held safely in my hands? Sure.

[Crazymonkee]

My dog and snakes are kept apart, why ask for trouble when it's really not necessary. I worry more about the snake getting bit, because it could obviously be severely hurt/killed by the dog.

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