Other pets (pics and discussions)

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

They are on sale on kingsnake.com. 25%-50% off and they are still $500-$1100!

Aaaaand that's why I will simply wait a few years until they are common... For that money I can have my eastern indigo snake! And I will!

[snakehill]

I've been thinking about Carpets and Dumerils alot lately!!! Need to get bigger enclosures first!!

[Stefan-A]

hey now, "just a corn snake to us"

"It's just a corn snake" as in "being a tesserra corn (or any other morph) doesn't give it the power to puke rainbows, cure cancer or fly buggalos. It is not a frakkin' unicorn and it's no different from a normal corn snake, apart from the coloration."

Still anyone here who insists on understanding the sentence "It's still just a corn snake.", as meaning "Boo, corn snakes are crappy snakes"?

[snakehill]

Can you honestly say that corns are not beautiful snakes Stefan?

[Stefan-A]

Can you honestly say that corns are not beautiful snakes Stefan?

Depends on the corn snake. What does that have to do with anything we've discussed so far?

[snakehill]

I was just saying that it sounds like you don't like corn snakes! Sorry!

[Bart]

hey now, "just a corn snake to us" is the same as "just a garter snake" to many other people! We dont appreciate it when people look down upon our snakes... So why sink to their level? Corns are beautiful snakes. Boring? too easy? absolutely... but they make great pets especially for younger kids who are just learning the ropes. I'd be afraid to allow a small child to touch a garter snake seeing as they are so fragile and a bit on the small side... Nothing like a big tough old cornsnake to tolerate a kids first time handling a snake! Not only will they tolerate it but their body is forgiving of small doses of rougher handling. and how many of us here have worked with eastern milks and love them? Their care and behavior is practically identical... An equally boring species!

Wait, what? Corns aren't boring! As far as I can see, they are just as curious and (almost) smart snakes as garters! My african house snake, Amon, just wants to have a roof and full belly (and sometimes: just a roof), but Nefri acts much like bigger version of Izy, just not so jumpy. So I can't agree that they are boring.

And maybe they are easy to keep, but it doesn't make them boring or stupid snakes! I've had observing and keeping ants for 20 years for now - and after those years I can say without any doubts that the commonest species of ants have more strategies of survive and tolerance of different conditions - and that's why they are so common. That means that they are smarter than specialised species because they inhabit so much different habitats and thus had to develop many behaviors, that specialised and rare species lack. This applies to snakes too. The more common the snake is, the more he is intelligent and tolerant to different conditions. You know which species of vertebrates is the most abudant on Earth? Humans. Following this logic, we should consider humans as most boring and not interesting species in the world. Imagine aliens that visit Earth - they would investigate on gorillas for sure, ignoring the presence of boring humans. I hope I made my point of view clear.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Hahaha, I am sorry but I DO find corns to be quite boring, not as much as ball pythons, but I prefer other species!!! But I like corns, they're cute and all.... And since I am a huge fan of orange and black a nice okeetee is hard to beat. Stefan, if tesserras can't puke rainbows I will eat my shirt. That's the whole reason I wanted one in the first place!

[Bart]

Well, it's because you saw too many of them. But objectively speaking, common species are way more interesting. Again: let's say, you're an alien. You don't know anything about how common the species is. You only can observe the species' behaviour under different conditions. Common species most likely will adapt, while specialised one will probably die. Which one you'll call boring then? The dead one - or the one that survived the test? I'm pretty sure there's nothing interesting in a dead corpse, at least not for a person that isn't a coroner or paleontologist.

[kibakiba]

I'd happily eat my shirt if someone paid me to do so... Enough to get another shirt and maybe a pair of jeans...
Also, I loke the different morphs, but I wouldn't actually want to own one.