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RE: As to your other question

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Posted by: robertmcphee at Tue Mar 14 11:47:56 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by robertmcphee ]  
   

I agree with your ideal of sensory overload. I think the largest reason our snakes get "flighty" or whatever is because the majority of our snakes spend their time in a 2'X4' cages or smaller on paper towels/newspaper/aspen etc. When they are placed outside they are very unfamiliar with everything their senses are picking up on (sights,smells,sounds,wind etc.) Or the basic feeling of the grass as they crawl on it.

I think they are extremely stressed out. I live in Michigan and my snakes do go outside a few times a year, not nearly enough to make them comfortable or used to it.

In a nutshell...unfamiliarity is probably why.

Bob McPhee


   

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