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varanid
at Sat Sep 26 08:28:03 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by varanid ]
I keep snakes because they fascinate me. They're incredibly different, possessing senses we don't have (vermonasal organ anyone?), and as a group they display an astonishing diversity for an animal with a shape that's so similar across species.
I'm not going to say all of my snakes are a joy to hold--one of my retics is a biter and probably always will be--but they're not killing machines either. I haven't been keeping as long as many on this board, just 15 years or so, and I've never been seriously into breeding at all--only stuff I reliably bred were actually a few lizard species. But snakes have certainly been a big part of my life for most of my life at this stage, and I literally cannot imagine not having them.
I can't really explain it well. They simply speak to my soul in a deep, fundamental way. "The way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden." Proverbs 30:19. I've been deeply blessed to get to experience all of those in my life. At the best, it's a transcendent joy for me to be able to work with these animals.
Read a book or two on snakes to see what I mean--Snakes: The Evolution of mystery in nature is a good place to start.
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RE: Why Do People Make Snakes Pets? - varanid, Sat Sep 26 08:28:03 2009