Cattle Mag

Snakes are boneless, cold-blooded and scaly reptilians belonging to the range from order Sumatra. Maintaining serpents as pets could be easy only their essentials are interpreted profoundly. Their needs and necessities differ by other reptilians. Owners should also realize that a couple of them turn really king-size and can convert into hazardous with the bits of time. There are various kinds of snakes visible for pet owners with varied orientations. All snake in the grass has different dieting and need different environment to live in. Snakes, which are kept as exotic pets, range from common garter snake to pythons. Snakes sometimes also cross forty years of age; so potential owners should be aware of this fact and be ready to make lifetime commitment before thinking of keeping snakes as pets.

Snakes can escape very quickly and easily from the custody. They always look out for enclosure, which will let them out of the confinement. The owners should be very much careful in this matter and also must put up an escape proof enclosure. Snakes are carnivores. They do not eat vegetation at all. The favorite food for snakes is rats and mice. Bigger snakes are fed with squirrel, rabbits and other small mammals. Some of them even eat insects and fishes. As the snakes eat small animals, it is advisable to kill the prey before it is given to the snake if not it could be danger to its life.

Normally snakes that have been bred in captivity are an excellent choice as pets. Wild snakes carry lots of diseases and parasites with them, get really stressed out with the transportation and are very complicate to be control. King snakes, ball pythons and corn snakes are popular choices. They are also small in size, but the king snakes can sometimes grow up to seven feet. Ball pythons have eating issues. They like to feed on a live prey instead of pre-killed prey. Also, they sometimes stop eating food for months together. And before buying a ball snake, the owner can test whether the reptile eats a dead prey readily or not.

The most challenging snakes that are kept, as pets are red-tailed boas, water snakes, Burmese pythons, and any other pythons and wild snakes. The most dangerous of them are Burmese pythons. They can completely swallow a human being. So it is suggested to have people around while feeding the reptile. Burmese pythons are very strong snakes. They grow more than twenty feet and weigh more than two hundred pounds. Even red-tailed boas grow up to ten feet and weigh more than fifty pounds. It is very difficult to handle by single person. These all species demand right temperatures and humidity in their environment.

Reticulated pythons and anacondas are extremely dangerous exotic pets. Some strictly recommend against keeping them as pets. Another variety that is fatal is venomous snakes. They not only threat to the owner, but for his family members and to neighborhoods also if it escapes.

Snakes are also bred for their skin, which is used to make belts, bags, shoes, etc. They are also eaten as a delicacy in many countries and even in Western America. In many of the Asian countries, the snake’s meat and blood is consumed for medicinal purposes.