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The Bond

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MisterQ

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Well, I have had my new Corn for almost a week now. It's amazing how I feel attached to the little guy already. I smile when I see his little head poke up and out of the aspen bedding in his viv.

I can tell that this will probably one of the best pets I have ever owned.

Anyone care to share the bond they feel with their Corn/Corns.
 
Oh boy, my snakes! THINKING about them makes me smile. Each one has a different personality and I love them all.
When I hold them I want to kiss them soooo badly (but I don't!) b/c I'm so used to kissing all the things I love. (relatives, stuffed animals, puppies, kittens, etc) I take loads of pics of them and look in on them every night and hold them as often as I can.
I always tell my parents, "Oh this one is so cute b/c of this and this other one is so cute b/c of this..." and they look at me like I'm crazy. "How in the WORLD can a SNAKE be CUTE?!" they say.
My brother says, "What's the fun in a pet you have to keep in a glass box that doesn't recognize you and can't play with you?"
:rolleyes:
They just don't know what they're missing.
 
Even though Casey is really my son's snake, I love her to death. She is quite a character. When I have my hair in a pony-tail, she LOVES to wrap up around it like a scrunchy. You wouldn't believe the reaction of people when I answer the door with her like that. One of my neighbors looked at me like he saw a ghost and said, "You know you have a snake on your head, don't you?" IT WAS HILARIOUS!!

I know it varies by personality of individual snake, but Casey LOVES human contact. Given the choice of slithering freely (totally supervised) around the house or playing with one of us, she picks us 90% of the time. She also knows to whom she belongs. My son went out of town a couple of times this summer. (Yippee!! I got to play with her by myself!!!) She would dart towards stuff that smelled like him, curl up under his shirts. So cute. They are amazing together.
 
Ahhhh

Arty likes to coil up inside a cushion cover and sit on my lap. She'll have her head sticking out and be staring at me. Sometimes she will sit over my shoulders and she looks like she's watching TV with me.
 
:)

I think my bond between me and sidney is great he LOVES it when i scratch his chin for some reason...he puts his head up and everything!!!!!.......And im sure he knows when me and my mam have had a row, cause he poos on her bed...hahahaha!:rolleyes: ...i think everyone should be proud of the bond they have....its not easliy come across!;)
 
Bonded

I've had my snake for just three days, I held her today finally and she was just the perfect Angel. I've already bonded fully with Diesel, and she doesn't shy away at all. I'm already so attached to her, she makes me laugh and she has already got all my love.

All I hope is that she eats, doesn't get sick or die, because already I couldn't handle that. She's just wonderful. She likes me already which I find totally amazing. My friends all said a cold blooded reptile doesn't get attached or have a personality. I told them they were wrong and I was so right. She's feisty, active, brave and curious and I won't even get into how calm she is with me already. Not a nip or a tail rattle or hiss to be seen.

Something about her just makes me warm. People who don't like reptiles just don't get that they can be just as wonderful as any fuzzy cat or dog.
 
If you have more than one (and who can resist it ?) then you also find out that they have different personalities and foibles. I find mine each as individual as the cats and dogs that have been owned by my family through the years. They really are a never-ending source of amazement to me and I love the lot of 'em to bits.

Cheers
Kel
 
me and twig will sit for hours he is to small to sit round my neck so he curls up in the palm of my hand or on my shoulder!!
sirus is the opposite he never stops moving and tangles himself up in my hair.

mum walks around the house and declares that i am mad because i talk to snakes that cant here me and bath them but she loves them really she was scared at first but now she love to hold them both
 
I'm like little twiglet! me anc kattie spend so much time together, I talk to her and tell her how cute she is. My friends think I'm nuts! My fiancee understands though, she does it too!

Rainey
 
Hi to everybody!
I'm new to this forum and posting from Italy.

I have come close to the snake world at the start of 2002 and am finding myself loving it. I have three corns and just luv them! It is so true that they reconize me over anybody else and are much more calmer when I handle them.
They can give a lot eaven if they are just "cold reptiles" as many would call them...they just do not know!!!

;)
 
They are all such amazing critters!

That I love them for their diversity. I enjoy the "science project" element of keeping them. I love the challenge. I enjoy their uniqueness. I enjoy sharing them and my knowledge of them with the neighborhood kids, the local schools, throught the herp club... I enjoy seeing people who had a prior hatred &/or fear of snakes overcome their prior feelings and experience their first "touch and feel" with one of my gentle darlings. I respect them when they feel "pissy" or threatened and appreciate the ability to make myself calm as a necessity to working with them.

Most of all, I enjoy my relationship with each and every one of them. Thistle, my snow, who is jittery with strangers and easily frightened but is Oh so lovely in the sunshine and so gentle and trusting of me; Rusty, my Miami male, who is so laid back with everyone; Candy, my candy cane, who always has to take a double take and pull his head back and get a good look at you ("sure there's no mouse in there???") before you pick him up; Cornelia, my Okeetee, who has been calm, friendly and gregarious from hatching and who just loves to come out for hours on end; Sunny, my amel spaz! who just can't lay still; Cherry, my hypo, who still isn't sure what's going on but is learning the routine; Inky, my darling Anery, who is brave and courageous and learning to enjoy humans; Ruthie, my female Miami, who is new but already getting into the routine... and my hognosed snakes who are completely different from my corns and so wonderful in their own right... and my son's ball pythons who are soooooooooo friendly and sweet...

So, I justify my keeping my menagerie to friends and co-workers through my scientific interest but in truth, I keep them 'cause I love each and every one of them and get such a big kick out of everything I have to do for them. Feeding day is the highlight of my week cause I just love to hand out the goodies and see how heartily the all attack their food, but I also hate feeding day 'cause it means I can't hold anyone for a few days...

I admit it, I am addicted...
 
I have a normal 1y/old who has a very laidback personality. I got her out of pitty from a guy who clearly knew little about reptiles (she seemed very emaciated and stressed) but although people always say not to buy such snakes i couldnt help it and didnt really expect her to survive very long. Wormey (due to her prvious size lol) is now a fat and healthy snake who loves to be handled and does not show a single sign of stress. Due to this we have a real close bond and can always seem to tell when im in the room as she sticks her head out of her hide as if to say ''Hi, wanna play?''. Very cute:D
 
Mare, feeding day suggestion...

you can do what I do. I stagger my feeding days, so I feed all my baby corns on Sundays, the milksnakes on Wednesdays, the adult snakes every ten days, and the childrens pythons on Saturdays. That way I don't have to have any days that I can't hold a snake.
sue
 
Well I think Suzy is ace - I knew I'd like a snake as a pet, but never thought I'd like him this much !

I find myself reading up on snakes or updating my web site whenever I get 5 minutes and have taken lots of offense (and had long arguements) to people, including relatives, who say that the snakes in the UK (Grass, Adder & Smooth) are vermin, dangerous and go out "looking for trouble".

As for the actual bond, it's ace!

How can people truly be happy without a pet snake ??
 
i've only had Silent Bob for a day and a half, but already she/he is just the cutest!!! lounging on her bark or tangling herself up, she's just lovely, i wanna hold her so bad but she ate yesterday so, i goto wait for tomorrow, and our first "bathtime" yay, hope she poops there and not on me.
hope she loves me like i luv her :):)
 
I was sittin here reading this stuff and I turned around to look at my snake and she was watching me. she slithered back into the shirt ( i put and old shirt in her cage for her to hide in and she loves it) but Ive only had her for a week so I cant really feel a bond yet, but I love her. I think shes watching me when I dont know it then when I look at her she just goes and hides. Shes been keeping to herself so far but i hope she wont feel as scared in the future. Just thought I'd share. :D
 
Glad I'm not the only one...

We have three corns, and they are all completely different -

Spike is a normal male, and is such a softy, very lazy, and very friendly. He generally curls up, stuffs himself into any crevice which is too small for him, and watches the world go by. :cool: He's my buddy.

Willow is an amel female (and the object of Spike's attention whenever they are out together!). She is more feisty, especially at feeding, where she behaves more like an anaconda! Having said that she isnt' too bright and doesn't always constrict only the mouse, but my hand, and anything else around. And then it takes her ages to work out what happened to the mouse. :rolleyes:

These two were my babies, but are all grown-up now... :)

So we now have another baby!!! :D He's a motley ghost called Angel. He looks so tiny next to the other two, and he is sooooo cute. I absolutely adore him. We've been through the flighty scared stage with him, and he finally seems to quite like us, but seems to be really cheeky! He is my "naughty little boy"!

Thinking about what other people have said comparing fluffy pets with reptiles, I think it's far more precious to have a bond wih a snake. I'm not describing this well, but you have to work so much harder for a 'relationship' with a snake, than with a cat or dog, so it seems so much more worth while when you get there. Does that make sense?

Best wishes to all snakeys everywhere,
Brig.
 
I don't know how people can say that snakes don't have personalities....My one baby, Diablo, has the cutest habit of rubbing his head against me, even though he's not in shed or anything. He'll hiss and act all tough for about a 1/2 second, and then he'll just give up and crawl right onto my hand. Angel (seems to be a popular name, eh?) has a quirck or two of her own, too - she'll wrap her tail firmly around my hand and then climb down, decide that she's happy where she is, and just hang there by her tail. If I pick her up and set her back on my arm or something else so that she has support, she'll act stubborn and hike herself down again so that she's hanging once more. They also eat differently. For instance, there was one time where I thawed two mice for Angel (she had gone on a hunger strike for shedding time and was quite thin) and she ate the black one first. From then on, if ever I put in a black mouse and a white mouse, or a black one and a spotted one together, she'd always eat the dark one first. Always. In fact, she still does. And she always constricts her meals first - Diablo is too lazy and just grabs his mice in his jaws:)
 
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