Choosing a Snake! The Process, Considerations, and Reasonable Decisions.
Вставка
- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Welcome to Serpentes Sunday for October 16, 2022. Let's talk about the best way to go about choosing your first snake, or the next snake to add to your family. I share the process I go through with you, the way I would objectively suggest that clients work out which species might suit their situation, and how you can go through the process on your own or with help.
Lori Torrini, CPDT-KA, AAB-UW, FFCP-Trainer, A.A.S. Zoo Keeping
www.Patreon.com/BehaviorEducation
www.BehaviorEducation.org
BehaviorEducationLLC@gmail.com
Well done Lori ,,,,, I do appreciate ,,, U is a great one n deed '
Lori literally helped me just last weekend. Apparently my dream snake is one I never seriously considered. My initial ideas were quickly redirected with her questionnaire. She really had me thinking. It works! Now I'm so excited to have this snake in my life. Thank you so much, Lori, for all of your help.
I am so glad I could help you!
What did you decide on?😁
Super Great! Love all your vids!
Lori helped me so much when picking out my pet snake. Three years later i don't regret my choice and enjoying having a snake very much
most important question to me is: Can I provide the right environment for a lifetime of this creature for it's optimal life, not minimal requirements.
if the power / heat goes out, how am I going to keep the environment within acceptable range?
-that really put me at the place of either a power backup, or : (which I chose) to aim for snakes that live within the temperature tolerance of my latitude (but anywhere around the world in a temperate zone). then: temperament, interactivity, feed requirements, etc.
also, as a renter: having 'clearance' to keep one and knowing limits of where I can rent as well as have space for.
I settled on the range of rat snakes; plenty of choices.
-only thing I'm still looking into is : for those that go off feed in winter season, how do I drop the enclosure temperature under the ambient temp of an apartment.. -my take: micro-fridge with water chamber inside, run tubing in part of enclosure, tubing circulating chilled water in a complete circuit, with a temperature/thermostat controller; just to get to the 60 degree or necessary zone.
actual chillers are into the hundreds; this iis a much cheaper option.
-haven't heard of too many others trying this (except for aquarium keepers of northern fish or axolotls) but for a dry application, seems doable.
*still looking for feeback on the 'brumating control' idea, so replies welcome.
_I'd already had my first snake for a year; really liked him but knew it required more than I could provide at this time. For their sake, I'll wait.
Have you watched he’d this in-depth brumation episode?
ua-cam.com/video/95EGPNGuZ4Q/v-deo.html
Wow! Excellent process horse buyers should really be doing something similar. There are so many horses that end up in mismatched situations and then discarded when they “don’t work out”.
I think handle-ability is very important, but I think something like 'ability to take cooperative direction' is more valuable than tolerance/desire to be held. I actually think that the way you interact with Snakes is a metric of handle-ability, because it's important with any pet, to be able effectively interact with them during routine maintenance, and to comfortably interact with them socially... Maybe what people mean by handle-ability is more akin to cooperation and non-bitey-ness, or even docility.
P.s. Can you do a video on realistic enclosure dimensions for large Snakes as full grown adults like Super Dwarfs. I don't find very reliable information on what that looks like in an enriching environment that favors the Snakes tendencies to move about?
I did a video about how much retics move in the wild and the size of their home ranges and we would have to house them on acres to provide that under captive management. The biggest space you can provide is the best we can do in captivity.
Great video, as ever. I'm going to share this to my facebook page. Do you happen to have the bullet points for this on a blog somewhere? Love to have that to help new snake parents at expos looking to get their first.
I don’t but that would be easy to do. I’ll let you know.
With biting, do you consider a difference between defensive biting and food motivated biting?
It is absolutely different. Biting food is due to a motivation to eat, driven by hunger with the goal being to obtain nutrients and be satiated. Biting in defense is motivated by fear, anxiety, and distress and the goal is to protect oneself, create distance from a perceived threat and be safe. Biting may also become habit or a reflexive action after a behavior that was once goal-directed has been related so many times under the same context that now the animal does it without thinking. Many things motivate biting and the motivation is dependent on emotional state, context, and the goal driving it.