The Snake Club

cat of curiosity

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What you do with a pet snake? Play fetch and stuff?
Do snakes have personality's?

Just wondering really.
free massage is the best you can count on. no, they don't do tricks. they are pretty, and soothing/therapeutic..., but just snakes with tiny brains.

as for personality, the most certainly do! each is individual, and females tend to be feminine and males seem only interested in breeding. each has a persona, and each is individual. ball pythons in particular can be picky eaters, but they vary in many ways, with obvious preferences...
 

cat of curiosity

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Oh shit, that bit me badly. What you say is true (re biology). But I have big birds (macaws, cockatoos). I have one cockatoo I have had since he was an egg. He discusses things with me in 3-4 word, sentence fragments. He comes up with original thought similar to the African Grey, Alex (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)). I am so ambivalent about these inconvenient facts.
i dislike african greys, they always seem bitey (at me, it's probably me...). birds can be awesome though! when i was a young child, my older sister got an adopted scarlet macaw. he didn't speak at all... until our priest came to visit. then the bird cussed the white collard boy banger (his words) until the priest ran from the house. my stepmother rehomed the bird within days.

i'd love to move to costa rica just to be closer to the green parrots and scarlet macaws. they are beautiful, and i love that they mimic! however, i have to settle for ravens and mocking birds, and both can fool the shit out of you if they've been paying attention. i've had a mocking bird call me back to the house, and i was convinced it was my daughter's voice...
 

cat of curiosity

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Had an awesome red tail boa back in the day. I'd love another one.
i love bci's and bcc's, great personality, very intelligent for reptiles. colombians were the big thing, but you could still get guyanans, peruvians, and sumatrans if you tried hard enough.

hopefully we'll have some super form yellowbellys next spring. ivorys, not true leucistic, but close, and still cool...

 

roseypeach

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i love bci's and bcc's, great personality, very intelligent for reptiles. colombians were the big thing, but you could still get guyanans, peruvians, and sumatrans if you tried hard enough.

hopefully we'll have some super form yellowbellys next spring. ivorys, not true leucistic, but close, and still cool...

I can't wait to see if we are able to make some of these beauties!
 

Drowning-Man

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i dislike african greys, they always seem bitey (at me, it's probably me...). birds can be awesome though! when i was a young child, my older sister got an adopted scarlet macaw. he didn't speak at all... until our priest came to visit. then the bird cussed the white collard boy banger (his words) until the priest ran from the house. my stepmother rehomed the bird within days.

i'd love to move to costa rica just to be closer to the green parrots and scarlet macaws. they are beautiful, and i love that they mimic! however, i have to settle for ravens and mocking birds, and both can fool the shit out of you if they've been paying attention. i've had a mocking bird call me back to the house, and i was convinced it was my daughter's voice...
I use to work on a parrot breeding farm. They had like 300! And 200 parakeets. The most expensive parrot was $15,000-$20,000
 

cat of curiosity

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I use to work on a parrot breeding farm. They had like 300! And 200 parakeets. The most expensive parrot was $15,000-$20,000
i know smuggling parrotlets (or paritos in costa rica) was (and probably still is) big business. a few boxes bringing over a million. i think there was an episode of 'glades' that covered the trafficking/smuggling of exotic animals...
 
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