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Welcome to the Ratsnake Forum

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Ratsnake Resources:

Discussion Forum
The Ratsnake forum is a gathering place for enthusiasts to hold open discussions pertaining to aspects and issues regarding the keeping, breeding, health, and conservation of these snakes. In addition to the general Ratsnake forum, there are a few subforums you may wish to visit:

- Ratsnakes: Genetics & Morphs
- Ratsnakes: Health & Diet Issues
- Ratsnakes: Breeding Issues
- Ratsnakes: Housing & Enclosures
- Ratsnakes: Asian & European

Articles
Our site hosts or provides links to various online articles covering a wide range of reptile and amphibian topics where additional information may be found: Feature Pages, Articles, & Care Sheets. If you have a content based page/care sheet you would like hosted or added to that page, contact our Features Editor.

- Rat Snakes of North America
- Rat Snakes of Europe & Asia

Chat rooms
Reptile and amphibian enthusiasts can chat live in the kingsnake.com Chat Room. The chat room is open 24/7. Browse the schedule for upcoming hosted chats.

Photo Sharing
Registered members of this site have access to 10mb of FREE photo gallery space to store your photos online. Use the same username/login that you use for the discussion forums to log into the Photo Gallery and upload your photos.

- Ratsnake Photo Gallery

Pet Loss
It's hard losing a pet. Our online pet community provides Pet Loss & Grief Support for those who need it (both discussion forums and scheduled chats).

Other Stuff

* Please remember, that advertising is not permitted on our discussion forums. All forms of advertising properly belong in our Classified Forums.

* Announcements for upcoming events may be posted in our Events & Show Announcements Forum. You can also find information about upcoming shows on our Events page.

* If you are looking for or inquiring about breeders of animals or companies that sell supplies, please check out the SPONSOR LINKS at the top of the Ratsnake forum as well as browse through our extensive list of Commercial pages.

* If you are a pet owner with an unwanted pet or rescue, please check out our adoption pages for possible rescue organizations listed that can assist in placing the animal (or use the rescue/shelter locator below):

- Adoption at: kingsnake.com
- Adoption at: kingsnake Canada
- Adoption at: kingsnake Europe
- RescueNetwork.org
- Rescue Group / Shelter Locator

* Can't find what you are looking for? Forgot your password or need help of a technical sort? Perhaps you can find what you need here: Feedback & Help Page.

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This sticky-note message is intended to be a helper's guide for Ratsnake owners or those new to the forum. The contents of this message will be updated periodically as needed. Please do not reply to this post (replies will be removed). If you have questions or comments, please start a new thread. Thank you.

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This message was last updated: July 25, 2005