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| kalz2011 |
Posted - 21/04/2011 : 02:31:35
Hiya :) Ive not got my snake as of yet but planning getting one in august  , Only thing im scared of is.. I have 2 cats .. if they ever came into a runin with the snake what would the snakes reaction be? Would it constrict on the cat? Sorry if this is a stupid question but it seems to be the only one that keeps coming up in my mind. |
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| ravensgirl |
Posted - 25/04/2011 : 23:04:19
hi :) |
| Mort13 |
Posted - 21/04/2011 : 23:08:40
Hi and welcome. Congrats on deciding to get a corn in the future. |
| gingerpony |
Posted - 21/04/2011 : 21:55:14
heya and welcome
unsupervised and loose there'd prolly be a bit of a tit for tat fight, the corn might strike in defense as the cat played with it's new 'piece of wiggly string' but the snake wouldn't constrict like it would with a mouse/food.
when i'm handling my snakes i just make sure the cats aren't in the room.......mainly cos some of the big boas would eat a cat!! |
| gmac |
Posted - 21/04/2011 : 19:27:26
hi and woo another Scotsperson, even though from Edinburgh welcome |
| a33272 |
Posted - 21/04/2011 : 11:25:09
hello :D |
| Invalid User |
Posted - 21/04/2011 : 11:23:38
Hi and welcome to the forum. |
| Mamma |
Posted - 21/04/2011 : 10:46:44
quote:
Originally posted by kdlang
Mamma makes a valid point about the plastic fauns being quite light and the possibility of the cats knocking them off the shelf/table whatever. The advise I was given when my first was in a faun was to put a bowl of orange peel near the faun. Aparently it is supposed to discourage cats.
believe it or not my cats are not phased by orange peel! But every cat is different so it's def worth a try. xxx |
| lee2308 |
Posted - 21/04/2011 : 10:41:02
hi and welcome to the forum |
| kdlang |
Posted - 21/04/2011 : 10:26:43
I have a cat and the usual reation from the snakes is to back away from her if she comes too close. To be honest tho I think she is more scared of them. As long as you are fully aware of where the cats are when you have the snake out then I can't see it being a problem. I would be more worried about the cats hurting the snake than the other way round.
Mamma makes a valid point about the plastic fauns being quite light and the possibility of the cats knocking them off the shelf/table whatever. The advise I was given when my first was in a faun was to put a bowl of orange peel near the faun. Aparently it is supposed to discourage cats. Now I tend to have things around the fauns which makes it difficult for my cat to get near them anyway. |
| Mamma |
Posted - 21/04/2011 : 08:31:42
Hiya I have 2 cats and they are often up at the snake's viv. One of them isnt too bothered about them but the other is insistant. We used to have Romeo in a starter faun but that was plastic so not very sturdy for him when she was trying to get into him. So we changed him to a glass viv. As for constricting, I dont know as Romeo and Mim are only very young and so very small. I handle the snakes in a diff room from the cats too. |
