Corn89
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I think my sister does it to make me wig-out, she uses heat lamps instead of UTH too. she knows I have a mother hen button and loves to push it.
Sounds like she should pay a visit to this forum and do some research!
I think my sister does it to make me wig-out, she uses heat lamps instead of UTH too. she knows I have a mother hen button and loves to push it.
*She will make it on here eventually*
sorry for the typo
I must spread more reputation around, etc., but this sentence sums up the consensus of all ten pages of dialog that usually come from this discussion.Snakes get exactly zero benefit from cohabbing, so why would any caring keeper do it?
True! The key is to keep the snakes healthy.The bottom line is we as keepers should strive to provide the best care possible for our pets.
Snakes get exactly zero benefit from cohabbing, so why would any caring keeper do it? It makes no sense.
move on. Having a few kilometers of land to run around on
True! The key is to keep the snakes healthy.
Snakes get no benefit from being kept in captive enclosures but we still hold them as captive pets. Being held in a captive enclosure is probably stressful for an animal that ...
It is also common to stress captive cornsnakes by handling them. Humans are a different species and snakes natural response is to avoid humans. They habituate to being handled, but it is probably stressful and unnatural.
Cohabing is probably also stressful.
If we take care and keep our snakes healthy, then they can handle some of the stressful events that we humans expose the captive snakes for.
But we have to keep the snakes healthy, sick snakes do not handle stress well, and we have to try to keep the level of stress low.