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Iguana eats vegetables in lovely colours

Our home pet lizard went out of the terrarium to crawl around the flat a bit. Colombian Tegu = Tupinambis Teguixin - male, 4y

Common names: Indian sand boa,red sand boa, brown sand boa.
It is a nonvenomous boa species endemic to Iran, Pakistan, and India. No subspecies are currently recognized.

I hear it all the time that snakes only tolerate people and that's not true. A snake that paces isn't always looking for food and they often pace to come out of their enclosures to explore and to get some freedom and exercise and the opportunity to be social and bond with their handler as well as with other people. A snake will pace constantly make constant eye contact and will ask you to take them out through their body language. If a snake only tolerates people then why do they choose to always spend time close to their handler of on them and they have a fit when you try to put them back into their enclosures after they have been out to be social? If a snake doesn't want to be held or handled it will usually strike at someone to defend itself and surely won't spend it's time close to a person that it so chooses to not be around !!
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Sorry I'm behind on making videos our temps dropped down to 30 below zero here and some of my water lines in my house froze and ruptured but my son replaced them all so everything is fine now. Can't wait til spring so I can take my snakes back outdoors :o) Not all snake species can be socialized but most can with patience, observation and dedication !!!

Faide (Dumeril's Ground Boa) was upset with me and VERY cranky when I took him outdoors yesterday and he let me know that he wasn't at all pleased with the fact that I hadn't had him outdoors in a few weeks but with handling he got over being upset with me. People refuse to believe that snakes display emotions of any sort but they most certainly do and EACH snake has it's own personality and temperament no different from any other animal !!

Everyone that knows my female Coastal Carpet Python now calls her Miss Prissy Pants because she has that female attitude and is VERY set in her ways and she's one that will constantly try to tail smack you when she is out of she doesn't want to do something. She is 6 years old and still offering her rats will get me nothing except her trying to strike me in my face !! Her name is Jade and I hope to breed her with my male Chewy this coming year if she will stop scarring the crap out of him when I put them together he tries everything he can to hide from her. LOL I've never raised a snake with all the different personality quirks that Jade has so she is like a different snake every day yet I have to add VERY entertaining to say the least :)

My snakes totally love to sit for hours watching my television and many of them will watch me when I'm on the computer staring at my monitor. It always made me wonder what the interest is perhaps the movement and actions on the screen or the colors and flashing of the scenes changing but I know if one of my snakes is watching TV and someone stands in front of them to block their view they will move to the side so they can see around someone that is blocking their view. The snake in this video is my girl Sunny and my oldest daughter April is also in this video.

I've made this video for the purpose of showing people how social and friendly snakes can be that live in a captive environment and actually they make great companions and pets.
The snake in this video is an 11 foot long male Coastal Carpet Python and his favorite thing to do is to spend time with me outside of his enclosure. Snakes that are socialized aren't mean aggressive animals !!
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Many people refuse to believe that snakes can be friendly social animals no different from a cat or dog but they can be and make great companions ! When a snake moves fast it doesn't mean it's being aggressive they do that when they are excited about something as well. Snakes do have individual personalities and just because they are BIG doesn't mean they are mean aggressive animals. My 34 snakes are awesome and VERY people friendly but depends on the time that you invest handling them and working with them. Chewy was all excited because I was sick for a week so didn't take him out and he's usually out of his enclosure 3 or 4 times a week. Sorry the video is so dark it was filmed at night under lower than normal lighting. The other female in this video is my oldest Daughter, April and she's been doing GREAT handling and working with my big snakes :)
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This has always been a very controversial issue that people often contemplate about snakes and what it comes down to is the people that handle their snakes and often work with them see and observe actions in their snakes more than most would that seldom take their snakes out to handle them or socialize the snakes !! People that invest tons of quality time working with their snakes can confirm that snakes do in fact display feelings and emotions on different levels. Snakes are VERY aware of everything around them in their environment !!
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Deffer my cat out with Tipr first thing in the morning bonding.
Just a video I want to share with some of my friends on Youtube that have their first snake to basically tell them what they have to look forward to in raising their first snake and some tips on how to have a friendly social snake as your pet. Big Congratulations on a great choice to each of you regardless of the species of snake that you've decided to raise because they are ALL amazing animals :) The time and dedication that you invest in their quality of care has everything to do with how the animal reacts to other living creatures around it in it's environment !! Patience and observation are the key to raising healthy content snakes :o)
NEVER force any two animals of different species together the results can be harmful for either animal !!! My cat and snakes grew up together so have become pals over 14 years of time.

I just woke up and noticed Jade made a mess in her enclosure so without my first cup of coffee I woke her up and took her out to clean up and wash down her enclosure and she wasn't exactly happy with being disturbed LOL Jade isn't normally as flighty as she was in this video it was because I surprised her when I woke her up.

I spend a lot of time socializing with my snakes outside of their enclosures and they really love all the attention. Chewy often begs me to take him out so today while my daughter April was here I took him out for an hour and he kept her real busy.
Snakes are SO curious and they love to explore and get into everything. Chewy is an 11 foot male Coastal Carpet Python and he's a VERY people friendly guy !!
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I love observing my snakes every opportunity I get and even more love when they teach me something new about them and their likes and dislikes. These snakes that I produced a few months ago were all problem eaters and by using the process of elimination I found a way to get them all to eat without assist feeding them. One more for the team :o) Another way to try and get those babies that are problem eaters to advance and now they can eat on their own without having me to assist feed them.

The snake in this video is Jade, my female Coastal Carpet Python and for many years when someone tried to take her out of her enclosure she would swing her tail and smack the person trying to handle her but snakes do have the capacity to learn routines and through bringing her out she has learned that if she doesn't use her tail against me or anyone else her reward is that she gets to come out of her enclosure more often and she gets to spend time interacting with people. End result is she has completely stopped using her tail swinging it at me when she felt the need to protest something. This has been a major accomplishment with her as she is 6 years old and has done this up until the end of summer. She has learned that with proper behavior she can be rewarded and now she loves to come out. This is also my oldest daughter in this video. Snakes ARE NOT dumb animals and are capable of learning
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Snakes can still live like snakes even when they live in a captive environment. It's a great opportunity for them to explore and enhance their senses and learn to trust and bond with their handler :) Snakes in this video are my big girl, Ginger and my male Tipr also 5 feet long.
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Faide my 8 foot male Dumeril's Ground Boa loves to come out of his enclosure to spend time close to me as well as with other people. Snakes actually make great pets if they are raised with human interaction and they make great companions.
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Sorry I'm behind on posting videos I was sick in bed all this past week with the flu but still cared for all my scaled kids :)
I made this video for educational purposes to show people how snakes use their body mechanics to consume their food and to explain why they do what they do during their feeding process. No strong graphic content and in spite of many people's opinions snakes are VERY well aware of their environment and do have a thinking and reasoning process.

My snakes are frequently handled and spend a lot of time out of their enclosures and I made this video to show people that my snakes react to a total stranger just as they act with me and around me. They are VERY social animals and make awesome companions. The snakes in this video are my female, Jade and my male Chewy and the man in the video that had never met my snakes before is my Daughter's new boyfriend and his name is Jason and he was totally comfortable with my snakes and they were at ease with him.
This is a longer video than I usually make but I wanted to show people that snakes don't react to strangers with aggression nor defensive behavior once they have learned to trust people.
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