Figured I'd ask about the maintenance of other folks' snakes, what with mine apparently being the most high maintenance, spoiled snake on the face of the planet according to my housemates. My Queen Noodle (aptly named!) has the most ridiculous behavior. I got her from a rescue (according to the lady who runs the rescue her previous owner took a knife to her, she's still healing from whatever actually happened, I had thought she had been attacked by a mouse), so I blame her quirks on that and me being a pushover. She is the queen of the house, and I am simply a warm human she's trained to give her everything she wants.
-She has a 40 gallon tank because she zooms around so much and needs the room.
-Her tank is right next to my bed, raised on a coffee table, because she seems to like watching me.
-Housemates often text me and let me know that she seems to panic when she's left alone too long, so if she's not digesting she usually goes to class or work with me in her travel tank (my professors and coworkers love her by now).
-Has soft paper towels and hand-knitted blankets because she REFUSES to touch ordinary substrate.
-Won't go in her travel tank unless one of the aforementioned blankets is in the tank.
-Won't eat her mice unless I remove the blankets from her tank. She'll ignore the mice in favor of her blankets.
-She uses my face to start her shed, and she won't shed unless I help. This snake can't shed to save her life, I blame her previous owner.
-I made the mistake of holding a housemate's Kenyan Sand Boa while the housemate cleaned the Boa's tank, and I sat by Noodle's tank while holding him. Noodle thus proceeded to hit the side of the tank with her tail in what I assume was jealous rage.
-She'll have temper tantrums if she doesn't get her way. If I put her back in her tank (usually because I need to sleep) when she's made it quite clear she DOESN'T want to go in, she'll zoom around the tank in circles and slam herself against the side of the tank, then zoom into her hide and stare at me.
-She WILL NOT drink out of water dishes. I've tried everything: commercial bowls, plastic, glass, everything. She had an abusive first owner (she still has a healing wound from him on her side), so there must have been something wrong with her water bowls. She will only drink out of my cups. So everyday before I leave the house I pour myself a glass of water and have my snake drink out of it. Or she'll swim in them:
-She will sleep anywhere, including: my textbooks, my jelly toast, any blanket she can find, toy robots (we collect Transformers in my house, so there's lots for her to "kill).
I maintain that she's just as spoiled as other folks' pets, not super spoiled like my housemates say
What silly quirks do your snakes do that make you realize they own you, not the other way around?
-She has a 40 gallon tank because she zooms around so much and needs the room.
-Her tank is right next to my bed, raised on a coffee table, because she seems to like watching me.
-Housemates often text me and let me know that she seems to panic when she's left alone too long, so if she's not digesting she usually goes to class or work with me in her travel tank (my professors and coworkers love her by now).
-Has soft paper towels and hand-knitted blankets because she REFUSES to touch ordinary substrate.
-Won't go in her travel tank unless one of the aforementioned blankets is in the tank.
-Won't eat her mice unless I remove the blankets from her tank. She'll ignore the mice in favor of her blankets.
-She uses my face to start her shed, and she won't shed unless I help. This snake can't shed to save her life, I blame her previous owner.
-I made the mistake of holding a housemate's Kenyan Sand Boa while the housemate cleaned the Boa's tank, and I sat by Noodle's tank while holding him. Noodle thus proceeded to hit the side of the tank with her tail in what I assume was jealous rage.
-She'll have temper tantrums if she doesn't get her way. If I put her back in her tank (usually because I need to sleep) when she's made it quite clear she DOESN'T want to go in, she'll zoom around the tank in circles and slam herself against the side of the tank, then zoom into her hide and stare at me.
-She WILL NOT drink out of water dishes. I've tried everything: commercial bowls, plastic, glass, everything. She had an abusive first owner (she still has a healing wound from him on her side), so there must have been something wrong with her water bowls. She will only drink out of my cups. So everyday before I leave the house I pour myself a glass of water and have my snake drink out of it. Or she'll swim in them:
-She will sleep anywhere, including: my textbooks, my jelly toast, any blanket she can find, toy robots (we collect Transformers in my house, so there's lots for her to "kill).
I maintain that she's just as spoiled as other folks' pets, not super spoiled like my housemates say
What silly quirks do your snakes do that make you realize they own you, not the other way around?
