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| CDN_Blood |
Posted - 05/04/2011 : 14:09:16
I notice a lot of Royals and Boa Constrictors here, so I'm wondering what else is popular in the UK besides those? I've yet to see any Carpets, Bloods or specialty things like Candoia and am wondering if there are laws preventing the keeping of such animals, or they're just not popular. What can I say, I'm a curious kinda fella  |
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| gluttony32 |
Posted - 01/07/2011 : 18:35:09
I know exactly what you mean... I usually buy direct from the breeder. I happened to let my g/f tag along that day and she saw how I responded to the trinket and heard about how hard to find they are and she got it for me for christmas as a surprise gift...not much I could have done. He is doing great though...he ate f/t the first time I fed him, after they told my g/f it was only taking live..I still cant find a mate for it |
| CDN_Blood |
Posted - 28/06/2011 : 03:58:25
Hmm. Gotta be careful what you take home from a pet store. I personally always avoid real rarities because it only encourages them to get more, and if they're truly rare, it's usually best to leave them where they are and let that message trickle back through the supply chain. I can be a real moral dilemma  |
| gluttony32 |
Posted - 28/06/2011 : 03:43:01
During christmas of last year, I stopped at a local petsore for rodents and in their snake room was a Trinket rat snake. I have searched everywhere for a mate and cant find one, in over a year i havent seen one up for grabs anywhere. Right now they have a Japanese Kunisir Island rat snake and im tempted but Its another species almost impossible to find...No other pets stores have them in any direction for miles...states even. Milks, Royals, Bci's and kings are in every chain and private pet store in over abundance here on the eastcoast. I also have 2 Eastern milk snakes that took me 3 years to find someone actually selling them. |
| CDN_Blood |
Posted - 26/06/2011 : 14:02:27
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...Wandered into a rep shop the other day and was surprised to encounter Pines, Milks, Kings and Hognoses...
Interesting. It takes a certain kind of person to want to take-on a Pine or Bull snake. Not only are they quite often rather aggressive, but if you've ever had one in your house you know how much these things stink, and I mean STINK. I've rarely seen or had one here that was well adjusted and enjoyed a captive lifestyle. Since I can't justify keeping something strictly for it's appearance, they're not on my list of recommended herps.
I can understand Kingsnakes - they're hardy, they'll eat anything (rodents, birds, reptiles, fingers, noses, etc.) and they're usually rather easy to handle. They've got an I Don't Care attitude and tons of personality to back that-up. They can be great fun.
The same cannot usually be said about Milk Snakes with regards to being handled, unfortunately. While they're often stunningly beautiful to look at, they rarely take well to being handled and often remain nervous and visibly uncomfortable for the duration of their captive existence when handled. Their discomfort being handled often leads to them being problematic eaters, too.
I won't address Hognose except to say that most people get them for all the wrong reasons.
I almost hope that GTPs and ETBs don't get found - they're rather advanced and so many don't make-it because of that. It makes me sad.
About the t-shirts...perhaps a bib is more suitable, but it'd just get dragged in the dirt all the time and folks wouldn't be able to read the warnings on them. It's a real dilemma and I'll clearly have to give it more thought :)
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| CDN_Blood |
Posted - 26/06/2011 : 13:59:35
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Originally posted by newbie
...Wandered into a rep shop the other day and was surprised to encounter Pines, Milks, Kings and Hognoses...
Interesting. It takes a certain kind of person to want to take-on a Pine or Bull snake. Not only are they quite often rather aggressive, but if you've ever had one in your house you know how much these things stink, and I mean STINK. I've rarely seen or had one here that was well adjusted and enjoyed a captive lifestyle. Since I can't justify keeping something strictly for it's appearance, they're not on my list of recommended herps.
I can understand Kingsnakes - they're hardy, they'll eat anything (rodents, birds, reptiles, fingers, noses, etc.) and they're usually rather easy to handle. They've got an I Don't Care attitude and tons of personality to back that-up. They can be great fun.
The same cannot usually be said about Milk Snakes with regards to being handled, unfortunately. While they're often stunningly beautiful to look at, they rarely take well to being handled and often remain nervous and visibly uncomfortable for the duration of their captive existence when handled.
I won't address Hognose except to say that most people get them for all the wrong reasons.
I almost hope that GTPs and ETBs don't get found - they're rather advanced and so many don't make-it because of that. It makes me sad.
About the t-shirts...perhaps a bib is more suitable, but it'd just get dragged in the dirt all the time and folks wouldn't be able to read the warnings on them. It's a real dilemma and I'll clearly have to give it more thought :) |
| newbie |
Posted - 26/06/2011 : 10:20:03
Loving the Snow Snake!
It does seem to be predominantly Corns and Royals around my vincinity, they seem to be the pets of the moment, I'm not too sure that this is a good thing!
Wandered into a rep shop the other day and was surprised to encounter Pines, Milks, Kings and Hognoses! As others have said the financial factor for some of the others restricts popularity, the breeder I got Rio from is after some GTP's or ETB's, but it's very much an "if I can find them" scenario over here!
I had a good laugh at the idea of snakes struggling to wear their t-shirts!  |
| CDN_Blood |
Posted - 26/06/2011 : 04:50:17
Oh no, Laws, we don't export our Snow Snakes. They're precious to us like maple syrup, which of course we use as currency here :) |
| Laws |
Posted - 26/06/2011 : 01:53:52
haha! this thread made me smile :) im fairly new to snake keeping , started with corns , then a python and then a boa . have made sure ive done alot of research before each one , especially the boa and have a nice crawl cay dwarf :) wouldnt mind a fluffy snow snake tho! LOL! |
| CDN_Blood |
Posted - 08/04/2011 : 11:52:45
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Pretty sure there is a boa like that, also sure they are found in Canada
Hahaha! That's the one, alright. You have to be very careful with them...they sit on tree branches during the winter, disguised as a pile of snow and when you walk under them BAM! They come off that branch and envelop you. Next thing you know, your friends are walking in a line with long poles poking around in what they *believe* to be snow, calling your name and desperately searching for any clue as to your whereabouts. At least 0.003 people each year fall victim to them here |
| Hammy |
Posted - 08/04/2011 : 08:38:52
Pretty sure there is a boa like that, also sure they are found in Canada
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| gmac |
Posted - 08/04/2011 : 02:03:24
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Originally posted by CDN_Blood
If only we had Snow Snakes in Canada...with all the space we have could you imagine how big they'd get and how soft and fluffy their pure white coats would be
Pretty sure there is a boa like that, also sure they are found in Canada
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| CDN_Blood |
Posted - 07/04/2011 : 03:04:03
Oh, I'm sure there are lots of folks keeping the bigger things, like you say Gmac, and they probably clique together, but I do like to offset larger things with smaller additions, personally. My Bloods are great and the Carpets are a hoot to interact with as they explore the house for hours and such, but neither are big on just sitting with you to watch a movie or something.
Of course, my Rainbows or Royal won't either, lol. They're content to sit for a few minutes but then they too like to explore for hours.
Glad to hear the hardiest of the hardy are popular there too (Kings, Corns and such). They're great fun in their own right, for sure.
If only we had Snow Snakes in Canada...with all the space we have could you imagine how big they'd get and how soft and fluffy their pure white coats would be  |
| gmac |
Posted - 06/04/2011 : 22:34:44
there are a lot of big snake owners out there, however what I have found is that the big snake owners like burms, retics, afrocks and anacondas etc is that they tend to stay with the bigger snake and wont have the smaller snakes in their collections therefore not using forums like ours.
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| Kazerella |
Posted - 06/04/2011 : 15:56:58
Kings are quite big over here too.
Suppose the difference between brits and our friends over the sea is that we are not that big into size, hence why they like Cadillacs and we like Minis
Plus I would think most people in the UK live in a terraced house or a semi. Not quite big enough for a retic mi'thinks
It is an interesting topic though, because having all the forums means I can gauge international interest. It's great that we have a lot of Americans and Canadians on here, while the hognose site is full of breeders from the Netherlands and Germany. The King and Royal sites have an even mix, but I would say the corn site is predominantly UK users. It shows that different nations find appeal in different reps. Not sure why that is though |
| Kelfezond |
Posted - 06/04/2011 : 15:04:05
"They're not called Boa *Constrictor* because someone ran out of names"
lmao! |
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