For all you Snake-Huggers, and those that are scared but curious

[Brindlebtch]

Beautiful!

 

[TwistedSerpent]

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Haha only a few species of what I posted are the wild type you would find outside, and the rest are a threat only if your in Africa/Asia/Australia/South America!

 

[haTHOR]

re: being a snake-hugger...lol...i don't want to hug them but i do feel they are a very powerful, fascinating, important creature. i do enjoy handling snakes and am particularly interested in the way snakes play a big role in symbology about women, fertility, birth, etc. in the past for humans and how they are now seen as evil, etc.

i grew up watching my dad pick up snakes wherever we happened to be (we spent a lot of time outside gardening, fishing/hunting, and woods-walking in rural central arkansas). i do the same thing and am always amazed at the level of absolutely unhealthy phobic behavior people have about ANY snakes. i hope that's just a southern thing, but i am not sure. i work in children's education and always feel good to educate kids about snakes and the capacity they have to totally learn another way of thinking about snakes, so that's very hopeful.

this old big blacksnake is my favorite. people who have lived in my little artists' community forever say she has been around at least ten or twelve years. keeping my coop snake-proof is totally worth the tradeoff i get from having her around, taking care of mice and rats and just generally being beautiful and totally cool.

 

[Kanchii]

OOH WOW!

I bow before your AWESOME collection there, buddy!

One day I hope to have a collection like yours. Some really gorgeous critters you've got there... Right now the prettiest snakes I've got are my Cayenne Fire Corn Snakes, you can see 'em here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=323402

 

[Skyesrocket]

That is an amazing collection! Do you raise your own feeders?

 

[TwistedSerpent]

Very nice, love fire corns, who did you get yours from? Here was the one I had -

I dont bother with feeders, really not worth the stink to me. I'd be spending more time cleaning and caring for rats and mice then I would the snakes so I just buy everything in frozen bulk.

 

[Slinkytoys]

Your snakes are in great shape! I've had to rehab some with mites and tumors, sigh.....
Slinky

 

[TwistedSerpent]

I do enjoy their symbolism too, long before Christianity came around in just about all the ancient religions they were deemed as good health and renewed life as well as gods themselves, for that very reason the medical symbal the caduceus has two snakes entwined (from Greek).

 

[TwistedSerpent]

I've adopted and rehabbed some too, my Burmese python infact was picked up by animal control as it was loose in someones yard in Minneapolis in October, obviously someone dumped it.

 

[satay]

Beautiful snakes. I have a spotted (childrens python), a coastal carpet about 6 ft long and a jungle python.