Even though they kinda scare me, the idea of owning a snake is so interesting, since they're legless and reptiles and I've only owned cats.
I would never want to own a snake.
Snake
Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species
cattle and a few pigs.
Wildlife Reptiles and amphibians.
In common with Ireland, no snakes inhabit Lewis, only the slowworm which is merely mistaken for a snake. Actually a legless lizard, it is the sole member of its order present. The common frog may be found in the centre of the island though it, along with any newts or toads present are introduced species.
Wildlife Insects.
The island's most famous insect resident is the Highland midge which is ever-present near water at certain times of