Have you ever taken a shower/bath with a snake? Would you?

[Texas Dan]

Um, after midnight, it is all theoretical. But in doing this mental exercise, the water temperature would be luke warm for sure and the snake would be held mostly out of the spray of the shower.

Maybe this is a question for Ben Rennick and his anacondas....

Any other thoughts?

Snakes are like mogui (spelling?) right? So if you get them wet they will multiple, and if you feed them after midnight they turn into killer beasts. Right?

[Houzi88]

Agreed.

Agreed.

[MiniJ83]

My green iguana used to LOVE showering with me. But they're very affectionate creatures, and he loved the water. I miss that guy.

[Rapture]

For the ones claiming unnecessary stress on the snake/not something the snake requires - these arguments amuse me. Handling snakes in general is considered an unnecessary strain/not something that benefits the snake. Keeping these guys in the first place is pretty selfish of us humans as it is a relationship with a one-way flow of benefit. We accept this fact, though, and keep them anyway, and don't begrudge each other for it.

Since we're keeping them for our own personal amusement anyway, why not enjoy them in which ever way doesn't cause them any harm or risk their health? If she wants to shower with her snake, go for it. Obviously it's up to her to pay attention to proper temperatures and the snakes' over all comfort level, but that's true day in and day out. Nothing's actually changing here - it's just... a different way of doing the same thing. ...very... very different.

I think this is a great post and a good job at looking at the situation from more than one angle. How do we judge if a snake is stressed anyway? IMO, if the snake is feeding, breeding, and in otherwise good physical health, it would seem to me like it is thriving. Some snakes take better to handling than others. Some may take to showering better than others as well?

As far as the video of the guy and his big Burm, yes the Burm wanted out of the water, but what if the water wasn't there? Do you think the snake still would have tried to get away from its owner? I've seen snakes do that many times with no water present.

You never know, showering with a reluctant breeder might make it breed? I've heard of some strange things... you'd think that taking a reluctant feeder out of its enclosure, putting it in your car, and driving around with it would be stressful, but apparently it makes the snake want to eat?

All I'm saying is we don't have to be so quick to give strictly YES or NO answers based on assumptions.

And yes, I also understand the reasoning behind those who think the whole shower thing would be a horrible, pointless idea.

[Thor26]

no way would i ever let my snake be that close to MY SNAKE

[Beardedragon]

one juicy turd for the snake... one huge salmonella problem for man kind

[anendeloflorien]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JkLUU15o2k

this guy seems to like bathing with his snake

LOL great post man, that guy seems to love his snake a little bit TOO much (I didn't think it was possible til I saw that vid ) Was he making out with it in the middle there? And BTW someone else probably already said this (I haven't read the whole thread yet just had to reply to this one ) but is that whole room the snakes enclosure? Did he convert his freakin BATHROOM to a snake room? And if so isn't he just floating around in a big pool of snake doo-doo and germs and stuff. Seems a little bit strange to me. Just my .02

[ani15174eva]

Agreed.

Dude why would you even have "your snake" that close to the snakes mouth? Wow

No I don't think I would get in the shower with my BP. I would be afraid of dropping him...

[MelissaFlipski]

So many nay-sayers, but this thread is still kickin'!

[DSGB]

i cant believe this thread is still going. it makes me laugh everytime i see it, picturing a grown man taking a bubble bath with a snake..... bwahahahaha