Are rainbow boas good pets

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no, what are you thinking of???????? snakes will not love you back, they are cold blooded and make terrible pets, try a warm fuzzy puppy or a cuddly cat!!
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Snakes may not be cuddly, but they are pretty cool animals. I mean, they don't have any legs! It's just so weird! And a dog or a cat won't love you any more than a snake will. Cats and dogs show us affection because we're the ones who feed them, but they don't really love us. They are lacking the part of the brain that is responsible for higher emotions. Only humans are capable of love. And if you've ever seen a cat kill a mouse -- they play with it and torment it and torture it for hours -- then you know they can be as vicious as any other animal.

And snakes are pretty low-maintenance pets. They only need to be fed once a month or so. My friend has two: a ball python and a King snake. The King snake is gorgeous: he's a lovely lilac color, with some blue and darker purple mixed in, and he's completely docile and tame. He'll just wrap himself around your wrist and fingers and hang out there.

I don't know all that much about snakes, myself, but it seems that the best thing to do, if you've never had a snake before, is to start with a smaller one, until you're experienced enough to handle and take care of a larger one. Rainbow boas are pretty big. My friend got her King snake (he's about a foot and a half long, and about an inch wide at his widest point) first, and she had him for about a year before she got the ball python (which is about 4 or 5 feet, and about 3 inches thick).

Actually, she got two pythons, but the second one was a rather large male (I never saw him, but she says he was about 6 or 7 feet long) and he turned out to be very aggressive. One day, he slithered under the table where her boyfriend was having breakfast, and bit down on his foot and wouldn't let go. So she had to give him away to a more experienced snake person.

So, if you want to start keeping snakes, it would really be better if you started out with a smaller one, until you learn how to handle them. And you have to be prepared to feed them live mice (or rats, with the bigger snakes). You have to smack the mouse/rat against the wall to knock it unconscious before feeding it to the snake, because otherwise the mouse could bite or stratch the snake in self-defense. So if you have any qualms about doing this, then you should find another pet.

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