Cat vs Snake

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Pazzoman

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Hey Everybody,

I officialy hate my kitten-cat who is about 4 months....she has wrecked my corn snakes cage. My corn snake is 2-3 months old. I open the door she has chewed through the heat cable I had and knocked down my heat lamp. Both has broken so thier is no heat in the cage! I wanted to know if I can wait one day to go and get my heat supplies at my lrs.....I have the heat in the house at 80 degrees currently....but may be turned to 75 when my father comes home.

Any alternatives, can I construct something now or will he be fine for a day or possibly 2 if something happens. Also the cat stays in the same room with the snake, the cage is on a tv stand so is about 5 feet high.
 
get rid of cat or get rid of snake if they have to stay in the same room
 
Exactly what I was thinking, I'm gonna try few more things before enforcing the idea of the removal of one. I'm gonna try making a canopy for the cage or surround the top with plexi glass.
 
Spray the cat with some water whenever they touch anything near or connected to the tank. You can also get some Fooey or Bitter Apple Spray to deter interest in chewing on the cords. My cats know better than to go near the other animals' cages.
 
let cat and snake duel. Seems like most reasonable answer.
 
Lo as fun as that would be...the corn is tiny at 18inch and thin as a pencil lol. Also after reading the daily mail site....all animals can be dangerous, people just forget about that some if not most individual animals in a species are mellow...if cared properly.
 
It will be fine at that temp, you could probably keep it at 80 indefinitely, hell even 75. As for solving your problem, I'd get a heat pad instead of a lamp, cat can't knock it off.
 
Pazzoman;4855395; said:
Lo as fun as that would be...the corn is tiny at 18inch and thin as a pencil lol. Also after reading the daily mail site....all animals can be dangerous, people just forget about that some if not most individual animals in a species are mellow...if cared properly.
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oh no, it wasnt that bad at all lol no one chose to look and see what the snake owner said. he even showed u his back garden, completely enclosed. he always let her out in the garden and he would tell his neighbours, he would stand at the top of the garden and watch her.
and it was actually him that went round to the neighbours 2 days later and asked if their cat was missing because his snake had come in with a lump that wasnt there before.
when they said yes he explained and they got the rspca round to scan the snake and the cats microchip showed up.
then the cats people started this huge petition for putting all boids on the DWA list etc.

in my eyes the cat was in the snakes garden and oh well.
if it had been my burm and a cat jumped in my garden and he went for it, i wouldnt be arguing with him. id let him get on with it. me or the cat.
the fact they wanted us to all never let the snakes out was stupid. i pay for my garden and thats the end of it, il put what the hell i like in it.
 
Corn snakes are common to areas that get very cold... if it's warm enough in the house for you, it's warm enough for the corn snake...

As suggested above, I agree you and your snake will be better off with a heatpad beneath the tank as opposed to a heat lamp above the cage.


PS - as for the side topic... I feel that there should be a leash law for cats and any cat found free roaming outside it's owners property should be treated as nothing more than a local nuisance. If your cat has the "right" to free roam so does my reptile... and if your cat free roams onto my property I (should) have the right to shoot it like the tresspasser it is...
 
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