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Daleo8803

Daleo8803

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Anyone else have non furry friends? Snakes, lizards, scorpions, etc or am I the only strange person? Lol

My corn snake Stewie. He was a rescue from a idiot that didn't care. Was skinny and had stuck shed. But he's doing good now. Twice the size of when I got him.



My red tail boa I just got this past weekend from the Columbia reptile show. I named him Dexter. So far he is doing great. Active and eating. I hope he keeps his easy going personality.



So anyone else? ;)
 
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When my sons were younger one had a red tailed boa, one had a bird.
A boy was handling the bird, then went to handle the snake. He got the scent of a bird and struck. There was much wailing, and laughing and son they've a grip! That's the ONLY time the boa wasn't totally docile.
 
Got two turtles, easy pets to own
I'll try to get pictures sometime for this thread
 
Grew up a big snake guy. Had many as a youth. Corn snakes, king snakes, boas, pythons, etc. We used to own a pet store in CO, so we'd had about every kind of pet you can imagine. My dad loved all kinds of animals. Except snakes. He was from Alabama and hated snakes! But he let me keep them.

Haven't had one in years. Great and interesting pets though, and someday might get some more.
 
We have had snakes, lizards and turtles until about 5 yrs ago (when our cat figured out the terrariums). Mostly corn and red tail boas but I did have a Burmese python when I was in college. He got so big (14’), he had free reign of my room and it wasn’t surprising to wake up in the morning with him curled up against me.
 
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We have had snakes, lizards and turtles until about 5 yrs ago (when our cat figured out the terrariums). Mostly corn and red tail boas but I did have a Burmese python when I was in college. He got so big (14’), he had free reign of my room and it wasn’t surprising to wake up in the morning with him curled up against me.
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Brave....
 
I've mentioned this one before. My brother, the veterinarian, did a spinal repair on a 10 foot long coastal Taipan.
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Grew up with snake, turtles, lizards and am old enough, that you could still buy pet alligators when we went to Florida to bring back. My dad was never a fan of them, so they always seemed to "die" while I was at school. Live out in the country now, so plenty of critters I don't have to cage. Only a dog person now. Kept a copperhead and rattler in a terrarium in college in Boone. When I moved away I turned the copperhead loose but one of my roommates wanted the rattlesnake (it was 4+ foot) He kept it for a while and then gave the pen and snake to the Boone Airport (he was a small plane pilot) No idea what finally happened to it but believe it lived there for several years as a "curiosity"
 
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I've mentioned this one before. My brother, the veterinarian, did a spinal repair on a 10 foot long coastal Taipan.
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COOL. Those pack quite a wallop. That one is huge.

From wiki:
"Its venom contains primarily taicatoxin, a highly potent neurotoxin affecting the nervous system and the blood’s ability to clot. Bite victims may experience headache, nausea/vomiting, collapse, convulsions, paralysis, internal bleeding, myolysis (destruction of muscle tissue), and kidney damage.[13][19] In cases of severe envenomation, death can occur as early as 30 minutes after being bitten, but the average is around 2.5 hours. The time between a bite and death depends on various factors such as the nature of the bite and the constitution of the victim.[19] Untreated bites have a mortality rate of 100% as the coastal taipan always delivers a fatal dose of venom (an average bite delivers 10-12x the lethal dose of venom for a human adult male), and medical professionals recommend that victims seek immediate medical attention even for apparently minor bites. Before the introduction of specific antivenom by the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories in 1956, nearly all bites were fatal."
 
As stated previously in other threads the wife and I watch YouTube instead of cable tv and have recently ran across a guy called “viperkeeper”. He keeps nothing but venomous snakes and has a few of the taipans. He’s also got a lot of other stuff including a 12 ft+ king cobra named Elvis, that he lets roam freely around the house. It’s one of the wife’s favorite channels here lately and I thought you guys might like to check it out.

Edited to add: multiple times while we’ve been watching my wife has mentioned the main guy aka “viperkeeper” has been wearing pro 2a shirts.
 
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amazing coloring on the lemon python...I had a ball python for years. gave her away when I got into world of reefkeeping..
 
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