...been sick so I haven't been on here lately. But snakes CAN BE pets, no way to argue that. The definition of a pet is simple, and easy to understand. ANY animal can be a pet (dogs, cats, snakes, venomous reptiles and arachnids, and even fish). There is no requirements that it must "love you back" in order to be a pet. There is no requirement that it "must be handled" to be a pet. You can't simply refuse to respect the proper definition of words/terms. You can't say "well I learned from so and so that this is what being a pet is, so I don't care about the actual truth to it." Can everyone see how flawed this way of thinking is??? But many insist on living with this flawed mentality. One should always look at the facts before forming an opinion; not "I have an opinion, I just need to throw stuff together to try and prove it". If a snake isn't a pet to you, just livestock, then fine, I have no problem with that at all, that's your preference. But most people with reptiles never plan on breeding them, they bought them solely as a pet.

And to talk about the "original purpose" of this thread, how in the world would calling them something other than "pet" help things???? You never made your point about that at all!
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1.0 ball python (Pandora - don't ask)

1.0 argentine boa (Prometheus)

0.0.1 colombian boa (Athena)

0.1 hogg island boa (Andromeda)

0.0.1 brazilian rainbow boa (Inara)

1.0 Dumeril's boa (Hannibal)

1.0 kenyan sand boa (Diablo)

0.0.1 normal corn snake(Cypress)

0.1 amel. corn snake (Morgan LaFay) RIP

0.0.2 baby corns (Romulus and Remus)

- 1 normal, 1 ghost

0.0.1 banded cali. kingsnake (Cain)

1.0 tangerine honduran milksnake (Narcissus)

0.0.1 snow corn snake (Valkyrie)

1.1 garden phase amazon tree boas (Pegasus, Lenore)

0.0.1 baby yellow amazon tree boa (affectionately called

Snuggles)

0.0.1 albino san diego gopher snake (maybe Octavian)

0.0.1 sandfish skink (Slick)

0.0.1 fire skink (Phoenix)

1.0 bassett hound/black and tan coonhound mix (Luke)

0.1 Boxer (Zoe)

1.0 bearded dragon (Leonidas)

1.1 ferrets (Ares, Enyo)

1.2 cats (Galahad, Ripley and Sassy)

2.0 rats (Pan, no name yet)

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