Some of my collection...

[Red tail catking]

If properly housed you wont have a problem with any snake escaping from their enclosure, I use the 1960/10 and 1756/10 breeding racks from Animal Plastics for all of my snakes. As for $$$, I worked my ass off at a crappy job for a couple years to save up money to get something im passionate about and start making new morphs which I dont have....(I dropped 4k for my first morph) same thing for fish, Im sure we all spent a pretty penny on our aquarium systems.

So how do you get past the fact that my mom is also afraid of anything that grows over a foot . She heres all these stories of people getting attacked by these 15' pythons, I even told her that this is a ball python they don't grow near as big as a Indian python, or some other large python species.

 

[Yoji_嬰孩]

So how do you get past the fact that my mom is also afraid of anything that grows over a foot .

Do you have RTC?! They grow over a foot is your mom deathly afraid of them eating her?! LoL, snakes only strike at prey items they actually want to eat or they are simply defending themselves if provoked. Also the best thing is to be knowledgeable about the subject show her books and articles on ball pythons let her talk to other royal keepers. They are the best pets in my opinion easy maintenance, feed once a week, and grows to a very manageable size. If you need help convincing her just shoot me a PM, I've dealt with this situation many times when selling my snakes.

 

[coura]

Do you have RTC?! They grow over a foot is your mom deathly afraid of them eating her?! LoL, snakes only strike at prey items they actually want to eat or they are simply defending themselves if provoked. Also the best thing is to be knowledgeable about the subject show her books and articles on ball pythons let her talk to other royal keepers. They are the best pets in my opinion easy maintenance, feed once a week, and grows to a very manageable size. If you need help convincing her just shoot me a PM, I've dealt with this situation many times when selling my snakes.

Ditto In fact if having big snakes was all that dangerous and having in acount the number of people that have them we will be hearing about that thousands of times a year in the news wich obviosly doesant happen In fact I dont think that is a single fatal incident in wich a ball python is involved Most are caused by burms and retics. But when I read the new itself in most cases there is such a big time ignorance and neglect by the keeper that you wander how that has not happend sooner Most are stupid teenagers that think is all cool and stuff and then get their *** k

 

[USMCtanker]

very nice

 

[Red tail catking]

Do you have RTC?! They grow over a foot is your mom deathly afraid of them eating her?! LoL, snakes only strike at prey items they actually want to eat or they are simply defending themselves if provoked. Also the best thing is to be knowledgeable about the subject show her books and articles on ball pythons let her talk to other royal keepers. They are the best pets in my opinion easy maintenance, feed once a week, and grows to a very manageable size. If you need help convincing her just shoot me a PM, I've dealt with this situation many times when selling my snakes.

Actully I sold my red tail, thats why I'm looking for a new pet. Also she's not afraid of being eaten, she's afraid it will try to kill our dog (its a yorkie) or the ferret, and I even told her that if housed properly it won't harm anything! There's no way of getting to her ... unless, do one of you want to help prove to her that they aren't deadly? Also she doesn't like the fact that you need to feed live mice.

 

[Yoji_嬰孩]

I feed my largest females XXL rats which are nowhere near the size of a ferret or yorkie for that matter, besides you should be housing the snake at a good height up off the floor away from the dogs and ferrets so I really dont see where the fear is coming from. As stated before let her read up on some articles on royals and hear what other keepers have to say about them.... I personally have only seen one of my largest females take down a guinea pig (her previous owner fed g-pigs before I adopted her) she is 3700 grams but as vicious as a guppy, LoL.

I honestly would be more worried about your yorkie and ferret abusing the royal and harming him, instead of the other way around.

 

[Red tail catking]

I feed my largest females XXL rats which are nowhere near the size of a ferret or yorkie for that matter, besides you should be housing the snake at a good height up off the floor away from the dogs and ferrets so I really dont see where the fear is coming from. As stated before let her read up on some articles on royals and hear what other keepers have to say about them.... I personally have only seen one of my largest females take down a guinea pig (her previous owner fed g-pigs before I adopted her) she is 3700 grams but as vicious as a guppy, LoL.

I honestly would be more worried about your yorkie and ferret abusing the royal and harming him, instead of the other way around.

She still hates the fact that you need to feed it live rats and/or mice, and Yoji don't forget to post your bee pics.

 

[Yoji_嬰孩]

She still hates the fact that you need to feed it live rats and/or mice, and Yoji don't forget to post your bee pics.

Took some pics of my 2 female bees for you today while cleaning.

 

[Red tail catking]

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! So bright and shiny!

 

[alcohologist]

sweet bees, yoji. put one with an orange ghost. mmmm - honeybumblebee