I own two snakes and they are great pets.
I like snakes. I've never had one as a pet, but am curious about that. Is their upkeep difficult?
No they are easy to care for but they are different from popular pets such as dogs who are loyal.
Yes, I can see they're not as cuddly ;-) I think the thing that would put me off is feeding -- don't they need live food?
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
Pet care Caging.
A cage with wire bars and plastic flooring is the most common type of housing. A span between cage bars of less than prevents young mice from attempting to escape by forcing themselves through the bars, where they may get stuck. This can also help prevent predatory pets such as cats, dogs, arthropods, snakes, and other carnivores from killing and eating the mice.
Mice are naturally cautious of rats, who may kill and consume them. This mice behavior is known as muricide (cf