DreamQuestin
10-10-14, 08:54 AM
Greetings and good morrow folks,
I am new to the forum and confess I am here looking to garner advice and probably on a long term basis for my new family member. I work in a pet store and adopted a baby kingsnake that we have been having agression trouble with. He has bit two staff members (one took ten minutes to extract her finger from him) and attempted to strike several more.
I have only ever had garter snakes and corn snakes and never experienced this sort of aggression, but I am content to have him as a "watch me" kind of pet if he cannot be rehabilitated.
At any rate, I am setting him up in a 20 gallon tank (under tank heat on one end). I am keeping it bare to start with (paper towel for floor, water bowl, hides on both sides of the tank) for a bit so I can watch him and see if there is anything amiss that wasn't noticed at work.
For myself, I live in the heart of the Canadian prairies, absolutely LOVE winter and snow (no sarcasm there - I really do love it :) ). One of the reasons I have pets (besides loving animals, of course) is the winter months afford a LOT of time to spend with them and winters here run 7-8 months :). I also HATE the heat (anything over 25C or ~80F is too hot) so summer also affords me time to spend with my pets lol.
Look forward to chatting with you folks and gaining the sage advice I will need for looking after this little guy.
I am new to the forum and confess I am here looking to garner advice and probably on a long term basis for my new family member. I work in a pet store and adopted a baby kingsnake that we have been having agression trouble with. He has bit two staff members (one took ten minutes to extract her finger from him) and attempted to strike several more.
I have only ever had garter snakes and corn snakes and never experienced this sort of aggression, but I am content to have him as a "watch me" kind of pet if he cannot be rehabilitated.
At any rate, I am setting him up in a 20 gallon tank (under tank heat on one end). I am keeping it bare to start with (paper towel for floor, water bowl, hides on both sides of the tank) for a bit so I can watch him and see if there is anything amiss that wasn't noticed at work.
For myself, I live in the heart of the Canadian prairies, absolutely LOVE winter and snow (no sarcasm there - I really do love it :) ). One of the reasons I have pets (besides loving animals, of course) is the winter months afford a LOT of time to spend with them and winters here run 7-8 months :). I also HATE the heat (anything over 25C or ~80F is too hot) so summer also affords me time to spend with my pets lol.
Look forward to chatting with you folks and gaining the sage advice I will need for looking after this little guy.