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How does everyone else's cats behave around the snakes?

That is a born killer you have in your lap. It may not attack today or tomarrow. But when it does you can't bame them. Its what they do. Thats why I don't have CATS. Lots of luck . Claude

>>That is a born killer you have in your lap. It may not attack today or tomarrow. But when it does you can't bame them. Its what they do. Thats why I don't have CATS. Lots of luck . Claude

I dunno.. some cats are smart enough to recognize the difference between an indoor companion and a real prey item. I had a cat that outside, anything small was fair game. Indoors, a gerbil or guinea pig could beat him up and not be retaliated against for it. He even helped me find an escaped pet mouse once since he had better hearing... showed me where to set the live trap. next day mouse safely returned to cage. Really there is nothing funnier than watching a gerbil chase a cat around the room.
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PHWyvern

I have fifteen cats in my house. I have never yet had a negative snake/cat encounter.

Of course, I do not leaves snakes and cats alone to frolic together unattended. My cats are fascinated with snakes. I have never had a snake strike at a cat (a more likely scenario, I should think) or a cat attempt to harm a snake.

One of my cats is downright obsessed with snakes. His favorite play toys are rubber snakes. He will toss a rubber snake around for hours. He insists upon having a rubber snake in his water dish alawys. (I find this odd, but......whatever.) He is truly intrigued by my living snakes, but has never made a move to harm one.

It is, indeed possible to achieve balance in a multi-species household. I have cats, dogs, snakes, lizards, arachnids, ferrets and kids. I will not venture so far as to add birds, but so far we have a rather harmonious household.

His favorite play toys are rubber snakes. He will toss a rubber snake around for hours. He insists upon having a rubber snake in his water dish alawys

Ummm..........
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Nick

I agree. I have raised my cat (Sugar) with tons of other animals in the house. Just like you mentioned, he is fascinated with the other animals, but has never showed any agression. One of his favorite things to do is watch my roommate's 55 gallon fishtank. I of course wouls never leave him with a snake unattended, but then again I never leave a snake unattended, anyways.

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so I have a dog. LOL

Please don't take me wrong. A house cat can make a great pet. But they are killers. When they play they are practicing the kill. Try dangling some yarn an see what your sweet kitty does. Cats that are let outside for even a few hours can wreck havic on the wildlife. Nesting birds, baby rabbits, anything they can catch. People that let there pythons go in the everglades don't realize what there baby can do to the environment. There baby got to big an now they can't find it a home. And they would never think of putting it down. (Be responsible) If you have a house cat, keep it in the house. Sorry for the rant. Feeling frisky. Claude

sounds like a miniature version of a pit bull.

I have a doggy door, so my cats have access to the backyard anytime they want.

I have a fairly good sized back yard, and it's fenced. I built an extention on the top of my existing fence which the cats can not get over.

It works out great. The cats can frolic in safety outside. They never bother my neighbors, or the wildlife. I know where they all are. I never drive around the corner, worrying that I am going to find one of my cats dead in the road.

The cat fence was very cheap and easy to build, and is very effective. I can tell anybody who is interested how to do it. It's one of the greatest investments I've made in a while!

Forgive me but I personally feel that you are tempting fate on this one. Cats are hunters and have even been known (and it's video) to kill snakes as little prey items. I own a cat and own several pythons. My cat is NOT allowed in the reptile room. 1) She is way to curious about the snakes and even has tried to catch them through the glass & 2) I have some large python and one female ball that is almost five foot. She would have not problem killing the cat. For my cat's and python's safety she is not allowed in the room.
Just an FYI the one time my cat got into the room (my fault totally) I had to save her furry little but and take the hit from the snake which was a large female ball python. There were no rodents present I was merely changing her water bowl.

These are children that more often then not will not play nice. If you are going to allow them to interact in any form I'd make sure that you are very close by. Like in short reaching distance close.

Try and think of it this way (this is how I think of it): How are you going to feel and /or explain what happen to your cat, snake, or both if an incident occurs? If you have kids ........ how would you explain it to them?

Just my .2

P.S. My kitty is strictly an indoor cat!
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Christine
Tails With Scales Reptiles
Looks, brains, and venom . . . . how do I stay single?

Ok, everyone. Relax. When this photo was taken, I was holding the snake and the cat just happened to hop up on the chair with me, not because he was going after the snake, so I grabbed him for a quick photo. I do not let the cat have free roam of my snake cages or anything like that.

You have a beautiful cat. Looks like a Snowball to me. Suger, very clever.
I'm sorry for jumping on your thread. I have a thing about people letting there cats outside. Thats not what your thread was about. Again, SORRY and I do like your cat. Claude

Thanks. We make very sure to never let him outside.
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My cats personally are terrified of the snakes, but then, my rat chases them around too.

Cute picture I agree with Stryer, it is completely possible to have a harmonious household with numerous animal species. Look at my signature - every single one of those animals is fat and happy (except the mountain horned dragon, but he's new and still getting settled)! For some time we even had birds, but no one really enjoyed the screaming once the birds hit sexual maturity so we gave them to breeders.

I have a 5 foot female ball python and there is no way she'd be able to take out a cat, lol.

~jenny
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1.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, and Periscope)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)
0.0.1 Mountain Horned Lizard
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 mice (Cute Girl Mousy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
3.0 horses (Buddy, Sam, and Scout)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
0.0.1 chupacabra (it ate our chickens)

jenny.thegreenes.org

in 5' ball vs cat, whoever gets the first good shot in is the winner. 15' Indians have been known to eat leopards. That isn't that different of a size difference unless you have one of those monster 20 lb kitties. I'm not joking, my wife adopted a cat four years ago that was 26 FAT lbs. He was 20 healthy pounds before he got liver cancer and dropped to 15.
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"yeah, eagles have feathers hanging off of them too and I don't smoke --- out of them!" PS it was a dream catcher!

Yeah most of the cats I see/interact with are seriously large cats. The smaller of our two cats is about 15 pounds - more than twice as heavy as my ball!
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1.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, and Periscope)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)
0.0.1 Mountain Horned Lizard
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 mice (Cute Girl Mousy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
3.0 horses (Buddy, Sam, and Scout)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
0.0.1 chupacabra (it ate our chickens)

jenny.thegreenes.org

np
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"yeah, eagles have feathers hanging off of them too and I don't smoke --- out of them!" PS it was a dream catcher!

Mutts. tonkinese mix is one and mine is just a domestic shorthair mix.

I haven't seen an adult cat under 10 pounds in years, lol. Must be something in the water out here!
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1.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, and Periscope)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)
0.0.1 Mountain Horned Lizard
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 mice (Cute Girl Mousy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
3.0 horses (Buddy, Sam, and Scout)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
0.0.1 chupacabra (it ate our chickens)

jenny.thegreenes.org

>>Mutts. tonkinese mix is one and mine is just a domestic shorthair mix.
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>>I haven't seen an adult cat under 10 pounds in years, lol. Must be something in the water out here!

I had a cat that had Siamese in his mutt bloodline. In the summer he was literally rail thin. Summer months his Siamese blood took over,... he could sleep on a 2x2 porch horizontal railing. In the winter his mutt part took over.. would be really fat and have trouble squeezing in between the vertical porch rails LOL.
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PHWyvern

Wow, except for Rag Dolls, Maine Coons and Ragamuffins (yes this is a real breed) I almost never come across cats that big.
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"yeah, eagles have feathers hanging off of them too and I don't smoke --- out of them!" PS it was a dream catcher!

Draw Your own conclusion ? They were best friends . Thanks David

These are the awesomest cat-snake pictures ever. Proof that you can't fit all animals into the same stereotype!

~jenny
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1.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, and Periscope)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)
0.0.1 Mountain Horned Lizard
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 mice (Cute Girl Mousy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
3.0 horses (Buddy, Sam, and Scout)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
0.0.1 chupacabra (it ate our chickens)

jenny.thegreenes.org