Comments on: Venomous snakes as pets

By: Pet Snakes

Pet Snakes — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:09:00 +0000

Excellent advise.

By: Lizard Lover

Lizard Lover — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:15:00 +0000

I am not too fond with people with no experience with keeping reptiles in general keeping hots. I known a guy a while back that kept a cape cobra. He had a family in the house, small children, pets, all of that. The only thing that I see he did wrong is that he had no experience with reptiles. Never kept one and just woke up one morning and decided to get a cobra. He prepared it properly, did his research, did all the things he was supposed to. But about a month later the cobra escaped his cage, killed one of their dogs when the dog got too close, and bit him when he was trying to put it back. Now he didnt know what to do if it escape, and he thought his cage was sufficent. Truth is, just because you have screening and a brick over the top of the cage doesnt mean it will hold ANY snake. Luckily, we had antivenom so he didnt die, but his arm was amputated because he thought it gave him a dry bite and waited too long to seek out emergency services. I am just saying you should have some sort of expirience before buying a hot snake. If you are truely anxious to get a hot, get one like a western hognose. Great temperment, mild venom that isnt really dangerous, easy to care for, all that great stuff beginners love. Just dont get a truely dangerous hot before you have had some expierience.

By: Dtm31583

Dtm31583 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:26:00 +0000

I think its a free country and yes I have and will keep snakes

By: Pet Snakes

Pet Snakes — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:54:00 +0000

I definitely agree. There should be some kind of certification process, BUT on the other hand I believe in the freedom of a person to be stupid. Even stupid to the point of death. Now I’m certainly not saying that owning a hot makes you stupid, but rather owning a hot with no experience or training in how to handle and care for them is pretty stupid.

By: monroe

monroe — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:46:00 +0000

If you do own a hot their is one smart thing to do and that is get the antivenom for the particualar snake you get. i have a few hots and i buy antivenom at antivenomandvaccine.com it is the only place i can find to buy it. It is not always cheap though about 100 dollers a vial and i needed six.