OK FR Lets see your set up and see what you keep your snakes in?

Do you provide a natural enviroment? Do you give choices? do you feed natural prey? Do you follow these snakes around in the wild on your hands and knees going through their poop to see what they are eating?



You let your pits free range of your snake room??? That was natural behavior?? to poop 3 meters away??? They bask in a window like a puppy sitting waiting for their owner to come home???Yep, natural behavior.



We all know that every animals natural behavior is different when not locked up in 4 walls. Heck if Humans could go and do what ever when ever things would be different.



Like X individual left point A and moved to point B. The snake must travel more then its own lenght.

So your telling me a snake has to move more than it's own length to call it Point A and Point B. That's just absurb! For you to go from point A to point B you have to travel further than the length of your body. Your telling me if you sit on one end of the couch and it's uncomfortable and you move one seat over, you didn't move from point A to point B??



Think about this.Let me ask you this FR. Before we had toilets where did people poop? Out houses,right? and then before out houses and lime, where did the poop?? how about before that, and that, and that???? Can you tell me??? Was it always the same favorite place? or were they marking territory like animals do??? Wasn't all that long ago, was it???



Think about this. When the human race was made and they reproduced, and a baby was breached what happened? What causes it? Was it at the hands of the owner?? Take that scenerio and apply it to snakes? You can state that things are always at the hands of the owner??? It never happens to a wild snake??? A wild snake never has something go wrong???



Inquiring minds wants to know? I have read many of your posts and you do make very valid points, and I have learned from them. But I think your last post was a shot at Bob and what he knows and sees. And in all actuality he was just making a statement on what he sees and the way his snakes act in a BOX! Your box is no better than his! It's still a box! whether its 600 square feet or 30 square feet. The natural behavior is gone but at least Bob is noticing his animals and their behaviors and enjoying the ability to watch his animals. Unlike some that throw them in a box, feed handfuls of food, make a snake puke up eggs, all for what?



Bob has done nothing wrong in his posts, just not up to your expectations of a snake keeper? I want to see your set up! C'mon I am calling you out, prove to everyone here that what you post is what you follow. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.



I admit mine live in a box, mine get fed when I feed them, mine breed when I say they do, mine get fresh water when I change it, mine live in a clean cage when I clean it,Mine lives in a climate that I make, and each one of my snakes exhibit different behaviors, and things go wrong.I admit maybe at the hands of my husbandry or choices I make for them.



I love the fact that I can sit and watch them from the comfort of my home natural or un-natural behaviors. Study their behaviors while in a box, breeding in a box, egg laying in a box, mating in a box, etc. Seeing snakes breeding,egg laying,hatching in the wild is hard to come by, unless I am out there everyday all day and night. I also like watching them in the wild displaying their natural behaviors. When I get the chance to see them.
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