Posted by:
eponymous
at Thu Sep 6 16:16:45 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by eponymous ]
haven't read the rest of the replies but here's my 2 cents.
i live in a medium sized 1 br apartment and have 3 snakes, 1.0 taiwan beauty yearling, 0.1 albino nelson's milksnake, and 0.1 western hognose.
in my previous apartment a couple years ago i had a full grown iguana with a 7 foot high cage in the living room.
my philosophy has always been don't ask don't tell. if you're a responsible herp owner and you're keeping your enclosures clean then there are 0 reasons for your landlord or neighbors to gripe about you keeping nonvenomous snakes. for the same reasons they have no grounds for complaining, they won't know if you don't advertise it (i.e. snakes are odorless, soundless, and stay inside your house).
since you're posting this in the BP forum i'm guessing you're looking at one of those which would be happy in a sweaterbox which makes it doubly easy to keep in an apartment because NOBODY has to know, even if they enter your place.
landlords may not (in the US) enter your apartment without asking. just like cops, but that's not to say they won't. the good news is if your landlord is going into your place and he throws you out for having a snake, a) he's doing you a favor because that's a [bleep]ty landlord that you don't want anyway, and b) you can forget about suing him to stay in the place because that would be prohibitively expensive, also see point a).
as always, read your lease before signing it.
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- keeping snakes in an apartment - justinmatthew, Tue Sep 4 12:00:19 2007
- RE: keeping snakes in an apartment - mistysprouse, Tue Sep 4 12:30:23 2007
- Just ask... - blowitch, Tue Sep 4 14:27:20 2007
- RE: keeping snakes in an apartment - zefdin, Tue Sep 4 15:16:54 2007
- RE: keeping snakes in an apartment - PHLdyPayne, Tue Sep 4 15:42:32 2007
- RE: keeping snakes in an apartment - JDalbo, Tue Sep 4 16:30:44 2007
- RE: keeping snakes in an apartment - Kingofspades, Tue Sep 4 17:31:56 2007
- RE: keeping snakes in an apartment - wh00h0069, Tue Sep 4 20:17:47 2007
- RE: keeping snakes in an apartment - Jcs0899, Wed Sep 5 01:28:15 2007
- RE: keeping snakes in an apartment - kylescott, Wed Sep 5 03:50:35 2007
- RE: keeping snakes in an apartment - Herp1337, Wed Sep 5 08:09:39 2007
- Would apartment owners have rights to - _Melisa_, Thu Sep 6 10:52:48 2007
 RE: keeping snakes in an apartment - eponymous, Thu Sep 6 16:16:45 2007- RE: keeping snakes in an apartment - ssnake23, Fri Sep 7 11:05:40 2007
- RE: keeping snakes in an apartment - geislandi, Fri Sep 7 14:17:59 2007
- RE: keeping snakes in an apartment - JackAsp, Sun Sep 9 01:41:22 2007
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