Keeping rodents and snakes together

[marisa]

HAHAHA Are you serious? You are telling me that I am somehow harming or teasing my snakes?

Have you asked how large my reptile room is? Do you have ANY idea on my ventilation? Did you ask about my rodent cages, or maybe how the snake cages are or which type of fans I have or anything like that.....Nope. You jump to conclusions.

I am DEFINITLY not seeing ANY "teasing" My snakes eat, breed and hatch normally. I have been bitten ONCE by an adult, and none are overly aggresive. How are they being teased and if they are, how do YOU know this? You can talk to animals? You can see signs no one else can see since my snakes show none? Wow.

So again, what exactly am I doing wrong? YOUR snakes always seemed hungry. Thats YOU. Mine are actually just fine.

Marisa

[elevation24]

Originally posted by BoAddict
just because you have been doing it for years with out any consequences does not make it right.

So then it makes it wrong???

[YummyCdnMale]

hey do you know if next door is BBQ'n?...uhmmmmm ya and does that tease you abit?...uhmmmmmya they don't just smell the mice they feel them there with vibrations etc it's a good way to keep your snake active don't you think?.... after all it won't make them strike you more would you club the guy next door on the head to take that burger on his Q"?

[daver676]

Originally posted by YummyCdnMale
more would you club the guy next door on the head to take that burger on his Q"?

I would. I'd do ANYTHING for a good burger.

[annieb_mice]

While MOST of my rodents are in a completely seperate "room" well away from my snakes, I do have several in the same room, and one "pet" rat that is only a few feet away from my snake bins.
My snakes do NOT constantly appear hungry, and I have not noticed any significant changes in their behaviour since I placed the rat and other rodents in the same room.
The way you care for your animals is most likely completely different than the way I care for mine... or the way anyone else does. You don't have my snakes or keep the same feeding schedule that I do. In short, we most likely have completely different lifestyles and our animals probably reflect this as well.
My living room, where the snakes and a few rodents are kept, is very well ventilated and has a cement floor. The snakes are kept on one "table" and the rodents are kept on another a few feet away.
Whether others think this is "right" or "wrong," it is how *I* keep my animals and have had no problems with this arrangement. Just because you have had problems doing it, does not mean that others will.
Take care
Annie B. <:3 )~~

[tai_pan1]

I keep my snake, mice and rats all in the same room. Never had a problem. In the wild, these snakes would go into a rodents burrow, eat what it could find, then curl up inside the burrow til the meal was digested. They would smell whatever rodent it was as long as they were in there. You'd be crazy to think you were driving your snakes nuts by "teasing" them. Quit giving human emotions and feelings to snakes, they're not human!

[JonD]

It could possibly be that if the scent of the rodents is always present, then it wouldn't trigger a feeding response. Where as with my snakes, they all become quite aware as soon as I come in the room with the rats/mice because that scent is only present at feeding time..