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Posted by Dean Alessandrin on August 29, 2002 at 15:55:01:
First of all...there are no “crap snakes” in my opinion. There are “crap people” who have no real interest in herps but to see what kind of weird mutation they can create. Or to see how friggin’ many adult snakes they can rape from the wild and sell for as much as they can get for them. Crap people. Not crap snakes. Corn snakes don’t ask to be bred for albino-snow-motley-amel-scaleless…blah blah blah. People do that. Ball pythons are “boring” because PEOPLE collect and breed them in mass numbers and we see tick infested balls crawling all over one-another at swap meets. If they were rarer in the US…or if you saw one for the first time in the wilds of Africa…would it be stupid and boring then? It would be the same snake…
Most of us started in this hobby with a corn snake or a ball python or a garter snake. Come on…let’s not call these stupid “crap snakes” what the heck? They are LESS INTERESTING to us than some other snakes because they are more common. They are animals. They are not like cars or stereos or any other material object. I could get rid of all my rare and expensive snakes…and have a ball keeping and breeding garter snakes. Or ringneck snakes.
Do I like indigos better? Of course. But crap snakes? Never. Garter snakes and water snakes and ringneck snakes are all part of the herp world that we all share a common fondness of. They are the animals that we saw people intentionally killing when we were kids and we got mad and didn’t understand why.
I have fed snakes that have died in my collection (that I froze first) to my snakes.
I will also admit that I caught baby water snakes many years ago to feed to the first clutch of baby indigos I ever got. I don’t think I’d ever do that again though.
I fed wild caught toads to hognose…didn’t like doing that and will probably never do it again either. (the hoggie died in spite of the toad diet)
I would be more inclined to feed cb baby snakes than wild ones…just because I think wild snakes should stay in the wild unless there is a real need to take them.
A professor of mine once said,
“Every living creature on this planet is absolutely unique and fascinating and wonderful…treasure them.”
…except for farm raised rodents and chicks, that is. ( I threw that last part in myself)
So…say you don’t have much of an interest in ball pythons or corns…but…hate them? I don’t get it.
