Reasons you love your snakes!

[boosh96]

This thread is for posting why you love your snakes-not the species as a whole, but your snakes as individuals! I'lll kick it off by saying why I love Zoey, my baby BCI.

I love Zoey because she's a great eater, has great colors, and has an incredibly docile temperament. She also has gorgeous eyes! Zoey is just chillaxed. She's honestly the kind of snake that you can just veg on the couch and watch Beavis and Butt-head, listen to AC/DC, or read Reptiles Magazine with. She's ridiculously tame, as I said before, and even puts up with my dog investigating her. Since I got her as a little baby 3 months ago, she has not lashed out at anything or anyone.

Now it's your turn-why do you love YOUR snakes?

[CDN_Blood]

I love them 'cause they don't give me any guff and they complain a lot less than any of the people I know

[alessia55]

What a great thread topic! I love it

Kaybe, my cinnamon ball python: I love Kaybe because he's gentle, patient, incredibly tolerant of handling, and never in a bad mood. He sits on my lap while I do college work keeping me company. He has helped a few of my friends overcome their fear of snakes.

Pika, my albino ball python: I love Pika because he's tiny (at least for now!), absolutely stunning, and friendly. He eats like a champ!! He has a wonderful temperament and I'm sure he will grow to be a lifelong friend to me

I love positive stuff like this

[bigsnakegirl785]

I love my normal BP because he's so friendly. He's pretty active, and even though he's a stubborn little bugger and get's into trouble whenever I bring him out, he's great to be around and very tolerant if a little jumpy around other people. Although he's frustrating to feed, he takes so looooong.
I love my red-tail because it's so pretty and also very tolerant and loves to just hang out and just gobbles down everything in sight. lol

[Kiljosh]

Originally Posted by bigsnakegirl785

I love my normal BP because he's so friendly. He's pretty active, and even though he's a stubborn little bugger and get's into trouble whenever I bring him out, he's great to be around and very tolerant if a little jumpy around other people. Although he's frustrating to feed, he takes so looooong.

Haha sounds like mine!

I love him because he makes me smile when I walk in my room and see him, in his tank, doing wierd stuff. I love him because he's fond of tickling my ears with his tongue and he likes to climb up on my head, wrap around it like he was a headband and view the world through my eyes. He is also super gentle, I have also used him to get a few people over the fears and assumptions they have of snakes. Proving they aren't slimy!

[exwizard]

I love all my snakes because its so soothing to handle them and have them slither around my hands wrists and shoulders. The feeling is the same as watching a fish tank. This is one reason I dont ever want a snake that I cannot pull out and handle. (This rules out GTPs and ETBs for me I guess, but oh well) I also love the different color patterns of the different species.

[KORBIN5895]

I love Kota because he is a eating machine. He will take mice, rats, Guinea pigs, gerbils and hamsters.

[EasternGirl]

I love Cee Cee...my female eastern garter, because she was wild caught so she is skiddish and feisty. She hides from me but then plays these little peek-a-boo games from her rock hide...poking her head out to look at me. When she doesn't want to be messed with...she lets me know it!

I love Seeley, my male eastern garter, because he is so little and cute and curious...he looks for me and comes right up to me and just stares at me from inside his viv with the cutest little face in the world.

I love Hermes, my baby albino checkered garter, because he is so tiny and funny after he eats....his little tummy swells up bigger than his little head!

[Lankyrob]

I love kevin and perry our two baby corns (who are nearly two but will always be babies to us) cos they were our first snakes.

I love Sunny cos we "rescued" him and i got him from musking every time he was touched to now him being one of my frontline snakes in our educational shows.

I love Monty cos he is a "normal" bp and i prefer them to morphs

I love Doc (SD) cos he is our biggest snake and looks intimidating but is puppy dog tame - and then turns evil when food is around

I love Jim (JCP) cos he is primeval - all teeth and attitude

I love Hogan (GTP) cos he is our "trophy show snake"

[infernalis]

Lets see...

I love "Tread" because she is just so sweet and mellow.

I Love "Spot" because he's a mental case and no one else will.

my Infernalis' because they remind me of my old lady, pretty & evil mean all at once.

Toby - My black racer - he's off the charts, he will slam into the glass just to taste you



But most of all I love Chomper, because he has a superior brain, ears, eyelids, will "hold hands" knows his name, and can actually feel something in return. ( I know he's not a snake )

[youngster]

I'm gonna do my lizard. Might as well expand the thread to all reptiles since many of us have turtles, lizards and crocodilians too.

I love Drake (beardie) because:
1. he's curious and very aware, always watching you and seeing what your doing.
2. he's CUTE!
3. he's finally learning to trust me enough to fall asleep on me

[Rogue628]

My normal BP because he's a typical goofy BP. He's always being silly :P

One of my dumerils and burm are like babies. Literally. They both love when I cradle them. I think it's because they feel safer feeling something all around them.

The burm is more of a baby though. She can literally be handfed (sometimes the only way she'll take her food...she's been a bit of a problem feeder) and actually nuzzles me sometimes. The burm is about 6 months old now and is finally starting to put on some good weight. The only time she's grumpy is during shed when her eyes are milky. Other than that, she's very laid back.

Both Dumerils are shy. One more than the other. I think it's adorable I haven't had as much interaction with the other because my boyfriend is her main handler. She's alot more curious, which always makes me smile when I see her head follow my movements when I'm near her cage.

Lastly, BabyGirl, our other albino burm, is pretty much your typical burm. Hearty eater that will eat anything, anytime, anywhere. When she's awake, she's cruising her cage and demands to be let out, only to go to sleep once you have her in your lap. She's really laid back, seems to crave human attention (or prefers us to her cage....lesser of two evils? ) She's also the only one I've never had a problem with so at least she makes me feel as if I'm doing something right lol

I love them all for their completely different personalities. A couple are really rewarding to have, others just great pets all around.

[It'sKourtneyYo]

I absolutely positively love and adore Vlad because he is he!
I love that he doesn't and won't take crap from anyone and he demands respect and how beautiful but deadly he is! and because everyone else hates him. snakes need love too!

[snakehill]

They're QUIET! Unlike my dogs and birds!

[Shmoges]

There unique, misunderstood, irrationally feared, and don't slobber all over you or shed all over the house.