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Christina - 2011-10-20
I love them! I am just dying to own one!

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Charlie Roche - 2011-10-21
Go for it....
beey - 2012-09-27
Hi! Are you still looking for one though? :) I could send you pictures! Just e-mail me. Its more than 1 feet so yeah. Please do e-mail me, thanks!

Patrick - 2006-10-09
I havent personally kept one. I really badly wanted one when I first saw it in a petstore in the philippines during 2004. I really thought it was unique!!!

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lin - 2011-09-02
Are you still looking for one. Contact me via email

Isabel S - 2012-09-26
I just got a rose hair last Sunday (3 days ago) and I thought maybe I could hold it for the first time today. It ran away and picked up its back legs when I tried to nudge it from behind. Does it still need to acclimate or is it aggressive? Oh and it just ate 2 crickets an hour or two ago. Maybe it was still digesting. This is also my first pet tarantula.

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Charlie Roche - 2012-09-27
For a few times (maybe 10) just lay your hand in the enclosure - palm up for 5 to 10 minutes so she gets used to your hand. Usually they just relax a litttle and come over to see what it is. It tickes cuz they will use their feet (don't know what you call that) and just touch your hand. be real still. Eventually it should just sorta climb up on your hand - lift real slow and then maybe pet its head and put it down. Do this several times and then you should be good to go. Go slow - my favorite thought is KING KONG coming into my room while I am sleeping and it would scare me. Your hand is King Kongs to that little gal.

Kurt van Wyk - 2008-04-02
When I was about 5 I had 13 wild frilled chameleons (a species not mentioned on this list) constantly visiting me and becoming remarkably tame. If you can get a hold of one you will have a 1 foot long, scaley friend for a long time!

Jane doe - 2008-10-28
Hey yall! I used to have a milksnake. We found it in my backyard and I picked it up because i knew it wasn't venemous. Then I went inside and put it in a glass jar (after I got through playing with it of course). I put it in my room and got it something to eat. Then my little brother was being stupid, he put alchohol in its jar and it died. It is still in my room in that exact jar. I know that is kinda creepie, but I think it is awesome.

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Anonymous - 2010-11-05
Where do you live?

Bily Wright - 2008-10-30
Yellow rat snakes tame easily and make great pets

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keyhataybass - 2010-04-27
No they do not.

jess - 2009-05-27
I've had my snow corn snake for about two months now. He's about twelve inches, and he's extremely tame. I named him Alexi (after the lead guitarist and vocalist in Children of Bodom), and I quickly fell in love with my snake. The only problem is that since I've had him, he has refused to eat and he takes no interest at all in any food we try to feed him.

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Kelly - 2010-09-21
Even though they say snakes are color blind, my snow corn refuses to eat black mice. She also will not eat rat pups. Try a white mouse, if that fails try a brown mouse, if that fails try a rat pup.
Arron - 2011-08-24
And if none of the above work then stick with pinkies and hothead them, in other words put them in a plastic container with boiling water in and leave for a couple of minutes. Throw them in and leave your snake for about an hour, if it hasn't eaten then it could be that the heat is too high or low. Or it's just a weak corn snake. A lot of young corn snakes die due to starvation. They lack the ability or knowledge to understand what food is or have trouble working out how to fit the food in its mouth. Mine did this for about 3 weeks before I nearly gave up and it finally ate. 3 times since now. Having 2 pinkies each time. Shedding time soon.
jojo - 2012-02-25
My sisters snake did that....took it to an expert and they told her to cover the snake for awhile while food is in the cage...hope this helps

Suzanne thatcher - 2012-07-10
Help! Today while canoeing on our lake in Wisconsin, a lake I have lived on for the past 43 years, I came across a horrific scene, I found approximately 8 -9 dead adult turtles in a relatively small area in it's back bay. I've never encountered anything like this there before. There were also very large algae floats that are new to the lake-most of the turtles were floating in them.

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Charlie Roche - 2012-07-11
I would call Fish and game and tell them. It doesn't hurt to report it and I'd be afraid that something toxic is in the water and what happens if a child gets into it. Might be my mind overworking but I would be concerned and i would call the experts to find out.

Jillian - 2012-04-15
Angel is my Snow Albino Corn snake which I acquired as a 10 inch baby in February of 2006. At approximately 54 inches long and a circumference of about 5 1/2 inches, after the cloaca the circumference drops to about 2 inches. This has been like this for about 4 years. Just recently I noticed brown spots on the underside for approximately 6 inches from the cloaca up towards the head. She (I don't know the actual sex) has not eaten for 6 weeks, rejecting 5 different frozen mice. She is very active and has a new 'playmate' in our cat. He loves to sit atop her aquarium and watch her and she loves to reach to the top and they sniff each other through the screen. Is it possible she wants to eat the cat? Are any of these things related??? Thanks for any help you can lend :)

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Jeremy Roche - 2012-04-15
I have had boas that have almost seemed to make friends with the feeder I have put in. Biggest issue is that the cat can easily hurt the snake. Sounds like a curiousity thing over a food thing. Still wouldn't chance hurting eother.
Anonymous - 2012-06-01
My corn snake rejected frozen pinkies for almost a month. Today I fed it a live pinkie for the first time. It pounced on it after 30 seconds of examining it.
Anonymous - 2012-06-20
Look I am a beginner and does it have teeth is it venimous?

Anonymous - 2012-01-30
Hey how come there is 34 comments on this snake?

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Charlie Roche - 2012-01-30
Guess it must be a common pet or people have many quesions on it.

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