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Kids and Snakes

galaxip

galaxip

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Ever keep them in the same cage?.. :eek: (no, I'm only joking)

I have a 4 yr old daughter and a 2 yr old son.
I recently acquired two young cornsnakes. My kids love 'em.

When I came home from work Yesterday, my 2 year old son greeted me at the door with: "I wanna play baby 'Nake" and I said "Don't you even say 'Hi Dad' first?" and the boy replied "Hi Dad, I wanna play baby 'Nake!"
:rofl:
The 4 yr old is in the background going: "Yeah dad, we wanna play with the baby snake!"

Anyone else see interesting interaction between kids and snakes?
 
I can't remember what we were doing at the time but my three year old son said that we can hold our snakes but we can't hold the snakes outside because they are venomoos. LOL that tells me he is watching to much animal planet. I figure better that then cartoons.

And he must cheak the viv's every morning because he tells me when ever they poop.

He also says that his poops eggs and that my snake doesn't

Oh the list could go on and on of cute things a 3 year old says!

Jaimee
 
I have three children. All girls. 10 yr, 5 yr, and 3 yr. They all love Ruby our snake. The 10 year old handles her a lot. The 5 yr old likes to watch her run across the bed, climb, stuff like that. And my youngest daughter is so funny. She wears our nakie as she calls it as a necklace or bracelet. :laugh: She really loves her. But I never leave them alone together. I know that my children would never intentionally hurt our snake. But while they watch her crawl on the floor their footing can get clumbsy with all the excitement. And they might step on her.
 
I have found that young children have no preconceeved fears of snakes. Some may be a bit standoffish at first but most just jump right in and "LET ME SEE!"
You can see the difference in the ones that have been trained by some snake fearing adults (usually at least over 5 yrs old). It's really amusing and kind of sad to see adults in that "I hate snakes" mode. There are quite a few grown men where I work that have an unnatural fear of snakes. I now have them to the point where they don't kill every little garter snake they see. The jumpiest has even gotten to the point of touching one of my new arrivals (they're sent to me at work).
I guess everyone needs something to hate (a shame isn't it!) and snakes are an easy target since they are so different from us.
 
Growing up, my brother, sister and me LOVED snakes. My brother was very obsessed with them as a little boy, he had tons of books and shared all the cool info with us.

We would go snake hunting in our neighborhood, on neighbor had tons of bushes that many garter snakes hung out it. We had only seen garter snakes. We had 2 as a pet, one from a pet store, one from the wild. They were kept together, which now I realize isn't such a good thing, but they were okay. When I was about 12 we gave those snakes away, and hadn't handled a snake since then until I bought my baby corn this summer. I was nervous at first (as was the snake) but we became very comfortable with eachother.

Corn snakes are much better pets than garter snakes! My 3rd grade teacher had an adult corn in the classroom, we could feed it during snack time, and a lucky student would hold him while someone else cleans the tank.


That is great that your kids like the little snake, I would definetly supervise them though. Quick movements or grabbing for the snake could upset or harm if the kids aren't careful. You know, with kids jumping around "my turn, give it to me!" But if I had kids, I will do my best to teach them to love all living things (even though spiders and scorpions creep me out, eweee.......I still don't want to kill them).


My dad on the other hand, he had a snake as a kid, and he never wants to play with mine. My mom has held him though and even calls him cute!
 
Clint Boyer said:
I have found that young children have no preconceeved fears of snakes.
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I want to agree... But there's this:
My 2 yr old son BEGS to hold the snake.
Soon as he gets it, he kind of shivers a little, and he IMMEDIATELY puts it on the ground.
I am convinced it gives him the creeps.
But as soon as I pick up the snake, he starts BEGGING to hold it again.

If we play for 10 minutes or so, he loosens up a little... Just a little.
He's hit me up about 6 times today, too... But the snakes are digesting a meal.

Oh yeah... I absolutely can't leave the snake with the kids unsupervised. The "my turn" thing gets to be dangerous around here, for sure.
 
WATCH WHAT U DO
make sure your 'kids' wash their hands after holding 'nake ;)
otherwise the may become ill from saminella (probably spelt wrong) as children tend to put their hands in their mouth alot
 
My little brothers and sisters love my snake, but my nanny definately does NOT :D she cant even stand to be in the same room as her!
 
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