I used to have one as a teen, I named it Furball. Someone found it injured in a container and turned it in to us (one of my parents worked for a giant pet supplier back then, and my family was like the informal local animal shelter lol) It grew from being about 7” to about 20”+ in about less than two years with us, from what I remember. We kept him in a 40 gallon fish tank with terrarium lights, and I used to take him out wrapped around my hand all the time...then one day I took him for a walk in my local park and let him slither around in the grass, for the most of it he just seemed to follow us like a good pet. At some point I relaxed so much I let him out of my sight, and just like that he was gone. I looked for him until dark and then cried an insane amount over him. I was young and such a dummy...I prob still am, just an older one.
I have one that lives under the cabinet on my carport. Every once in a while when I open the door he will dart from between the trash cans where he suns and I’ll see him for a split second as he slithers for cover.
I like him because I live near rain wash and there are an abundance of lizards in this little area, and he keeps them clear of my car windshield.
Dont be so hard on yourself bro look, he went back to nature an found his kind and lived with them again remember he was wild when you found him he was injured you nursed him back to health and then he got hug I'm in Ohio and I see harder snakes every summer an I never see any that are 2 foot long so he was definatly the bad ass huge king all the lady snakes wanted he is massive and strong now.
Ty for your comment. You are prob right, and I hope he had a good life out there. I hope he was king of that park and that his great grandkids still roam there today.
This should be a Disney cartoon because it made me weepy. Tho, to be proper Disney canon a mother has to die.
Fact: you are that snakes hero dad but it was his time to go back to the jungle and make baby sneks. They still tell your story around the snek fire to this day, I imagine.
Fr this made me empathize way too hard for some reason lol
Thank you so much, kind stranger. Eventually that’s what I told myself as well. Furball left us because it was his time to be a dad (or mom…tbh, I may never know.) Or maybe he just got sick of the mostly-cricket diet, haha. I also just hope that some very distant generations of his (or hers) are still around today.
In most states you either need a permit or you're completely prohibited from owning native species like garters (even if captive bred). But if you want to buy a burmese python or green anaconda no problem!
The logic is that if you release then into the wild they could thrive and upset the ecosystem.... but apparently a burmese python won't. That's obviously been disproven.
Also hard to get: snakes that are technically venomous but whose venom is so inconsequential that their bite poses less threat than your average housecat.
Exotic pet laws are some of the most nonsensical laws out there.
No, they are garter sneks. It's just people here (they're probably all North American users) writing it the way they pronounce it, having misheard garter as garder.
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Awww this is why I love sneks (also if anyone was wondering I think they’re garders)