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RE: keeping snakes in an apartment

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Posted by: Fascination at Sun Sep 9 13:43:48 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Fascination ]  
   

I laughed after reading this thread and HAD to reply to this one!

I have been keeping reptiles for around 20 years or so now. When I first developed the fascination of reptiles and keeping them, I was in my very early 20's, living in an apartment which I did for nearly 10 years. The hobby increased for me rapidly, where I found myself interested in and keeping venomous snakes. Lots of them. So here I found myself living in several different apartments over the years, usually on the upper floors, in obviously a 2 bedroom apartment(1 occupied totally by snakes), keeping 20 venomous snakes at any given time with no one having a clue!

Luckily, I never had an incident or problem. Since then, I have matured and got a little smarter and am so thankful no one including myself ever got hurt! I no longer keep venomous animals, but when your young and sort of the thrill seeker as I was, adrenalin(sorry about the spelling, has a way of replacing brains and nothing will stop you including laws or common sense!

I would in NO way recommend keeping venomous snakes, large boas and or pythons in an apartment. But, if you are like I was when I was younger and refuse to listen to wisdom from anyone, do as I did, and don't even breath the word snake to anyone in your complex, rental officer or anybody for that matter. I know how tempting it is to show off your collection and need to fascinate others, but that would be your downfall!

Snakes have been the media's favorite pastime in writing or telling snake stories of any sort! Especially when the 12 foot Burmese has escaped and all the neighborhood pets starts mysteriously disappearing. I'm not sure of what type or amount of animals you keep, but if you do decide to keep them, I wouldn't recommend any snake over 5 foot, and DEFINITELY NOT ANY VENOMOUS, regardless if your lacal laws allow them or not!

   

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