Snakes are fossorial. They are what they are and we cannot change them with methods like we use for more domesticated animals. What the mistake us humans do is put them on the same level as pets of a different nature. That is the mistake that needs to be corrected.



Feral horses,dogs an cats return to their natural ways very quickly. They are largely the same animal and you always need to keep that in mind because they are ANIMALS that sometime react to things from instinct. They are not little people.



Habituating a snake to captivity in many, not ALL ways, is VERY similar on certain levels.



The definition of Fossorial too has the meaning of one that burrows, lives life underground, is equipped to burrow. Like water for fish you can see them and observe behaviours through glass but just by definition, unless you had a house size ant farm type of cage for fossorial snakes how can a person really "observe" all these "natural" behaviours? It is not necessarily practical or neccessary. I'm all for large clean cages but throwing in a few plants,some rocks and bark just does not cut it for people to say they have a "natural" set up.



I figure you have to challenge yourself when we mull over these things. It's just the questions that come to mind for me when we discuss these things.

[ Show Entire Thread ]