Snakes and Birds...Bad Combo?

[JerseyWendy]

This topic gives me the chills....I try not to look in here as I'm supposed to go through threads...I think I'll leave it for someone else to go through....snakes really creeps me out....lol

I'll check for you, Michael...I love snakes...but can never have one because someone in the family is PETRIFIED of them.

 

[Wings]

Thanks guys! I will defiantly be careful!

 

[NigelT]

I have a large constrictor, about 6 foot, and a conure. Am I worried... no. Why? Because my snake can not escape her cage. I have invested in an appropriate cage that is 100% escape proof. The problem with all the stories you see on the news is that these keepers arent housing their reptiles correctly or safely. With common sense it will not be a problem. The picture is of my snakes cage. As you can see it is made from pvc and plexi glass with knobs that open the cage from the front. No possible way for her to escape.

 

[goalerjones]

I have a large constrictor, about 6 foot, and a conure. Am I worried... no. Why? Because my snake can not escape her cage. I have invested in an appropriate cage that is 100% escape proof. The problem with all the stories you see on the news is that these keepers arent housing their reptiles correctly or safely. With common sense it will not be a problem. The picture is of my snakes cage. As you can see it is made from pvc and plexi glass with knobs that open the cage from the front. No possible way for her to escape.

Never rule out human error.

 

[chalky76]

Thanks guys! I will defiantly be careful!

So have you decided on a species of snake yet then? If so which one?

 

[goalerjones]

Thanks guys! I will defiantly be careful!

So, you'll throw caution to the wind?

 

[Wings]

Ha ha no...We are actually getting a boaphile cage, (something like 4'x2'), and that will be the home to our hog island boa (soon to be bought)

 

[chalky76]

Ha ha no...We are actually getting a boaphile cage, (something like 4'x2'), and that will be the home to our hog island boa (soon to be bought)

Hog island Boas are lovely and wont get too big, they are fantastic snakes.

 

[Wings]

We have inquired about some Amazon Tree Boas, and put a deposit in for a beautiful Halloween Phase. It is too cold here to have the snake shipped so it's going to have to wait until spring -.-

 

[SpotsandSally]

Ooh, I feel like I found a gold mine! I'm kind looking into getting a sand boa so will read this entire thread. However, if I may ask, what diseases do snakes present to birds? Salmonella? Could a sand boa - small little thing, the biggest one gets to 2ft I believe - be housed in the same room with no fear of diseases (given both animals have a clean bill of health). I just would assume salmonella would be a big deal. or is it fine if you wash your hands? Or do you need to change clothes? Should I choose to get a sand boa, ill add plenty of what will happen to me on here, lol. Personally I'd like to get a ball python, but don't have the space. I have a spare cage that could be filled, so looked into sand boas.

 

[Wings]

I wouldn't put a sand boa in the same room. The snake will always be in a feeding response smelling the bird. (not that it's it's natural prey, or it is large enough to eat a ringneck). If you wash your hands in-between handlings, and not let either animal have any contact, you'l be fine.

 

[SpotsandSally]

That would be one of the worries, of course, but I was just seeing if they could simply transmit diseases via air or need it be via touch. If I get one it'll be in a different room. thanks though.

 

[Wings]

well i'd assume by touch, breathing near a snake doesn't give you disease

 

[SpotsandSally]

Lol. I was talking about the bird xD I'm just being paranoid. After the first 6 weeks we got Kiwi he was on meds because either I was stupid and cross contaminated with the chickens, or Petco had a disease. Either way, I'm just clinging to him like a Baby and ask the most ridiculous stuff, lol! You make a good point though ^^

 

[waternurse]

I've had reptiles and birds at the same time and they have done okay. But the key points for mine were that neither bird nor reptile ate meat. The reptile was an insectivore. With reptiles research about adult size is important so you know what you're getting into.

 

[Wings]

Couldn't have said it better myself. Walking through the pet store and seeing mom's buy their kid's Nile Monitors and Burmese Pythons saddens me. And it isn't the mother's fault or the child's fault, or even the pet store employee's fault. It is the pet industry. They sell these animals for around $20, telling the employees incorrect information to give out to customers. "it will only grow as big as the cage" "you need no lights" "feed it worms from the backyard, it will be fine" are things i hear all too often. A Nile Monitor is an extremely aggressive species of monitor from Africa, that can grow up to 7-8 feet in length. Some villages use these animals are "watch lizards"! The Burmese python is a large snake that is already an invasive species in the everglades due to misinformation. The whole point of this rant was to explain, RESEARCH NEEDS TO BE DONE. Whether you think you've done enough or not, learning is key to being successful

 

[Mike17]

While I don't dislike snakes, it would seem to be a bad combination. If in different rooms and the snake is secure, I guess it'd be OK. Not something I'd do but my wife hates snakes or anything shaped like a snake She even objects to my Aboriginal carvings of snakes!

 

[Wings]

Haha, i bet they look awesome! Aboriginal carvings and artwork in general has always been one of my favorite styles. it looks very other-worldly, if that makes any sense xD

 

[Mike17]

Haha, i bet they look awesome! Aboriginal carvings and artwork in general has always been one of my favorite styles. it looks very other-worldly, if that makes any sense xD

I have many carvings, plus weapons ( 3 spears, a shield, a nulla nulla (club) and a woomera (spear-thrower)) which are hard to get as they can only be made by men, and it's the women who sit around fires carving. Alas, I gave only one dot-painting, which is on bark so subject to warping, but it's an older one in "traditional" colours not modern acrylics like purple I should have bought dot-paintings when I lived in Aboriginal lands as they have gotten to be very expensive, now, sometimes in the thousands of $. Especially when they go through several hands instead of from the painter him/herself.

The snakes are interesting- they choose a sinously shaped tree branch so the resultant snake is very lifelike (much to my wife's consternation ).

 

[Wings]

If you could, I'd love to see some pictures of the artwork if you'd like to private message me them, or post them on a thread....