What snakes are good for pets, and meerkats are not suitable for pets?

The so-called pet snakes are generally artificially cultivated non-venomous snakes, with a mild temperament and little aggression towards people, and most of them should be raised from a young age, and it is easier to cultivate feelings with their owners. Of course, in addition to being expensive, you also need to order from abroad. Since pet snakes are divided into domestic and imported, the requirements for breeding are also different.

Domestic pet snakes are not as free as imported pet snakes, generally only kept in bottles, rarely released to walk, and the requirements of living and eating are much simpler. Why keep snakes? Snakes can be said to be one of the cleanest pets, neither shedding nor noisy, easy to control urine and urine, and like to bathe, as long as they are fed regularly and do a good job of keeping warm, the longest life can live for more than ten years.

If you want to have a pet snake, you may also have to love the house and Wudi to accept some of its cruel characteristics, snakes are carnivores, and the food is mostly live small animals, such as frogs, chickens, mice or small fish, which are expensive and the eating process is quite shocking. Moreover, regardless of whether the pet snake is venomous or not, the owner will still be bitten.

Nowadays, people who take snakes as pets are also divided into two categories: one is to have a fun-loving mentality, buy palm-sized small snakes in the Zhuangyuanfang, Qingping Market and other markets, which are said to be called "beautiful snakes", with varieties such as water snakes, Douglas snakes, rich snakes, etc., which are not easy to raise, only need to be raised in open-hole plastic bottles or glass bottles, eat tadpole-sized small fish and absorb glucose powder for a living; The other type is to raise pet snakes imported from abroad, including ** python, Burmese python, corn snake, ball python, etc., although it is still a small snake, but when these snakes are one or two years old, they are two or three meters long, and they are quite scary for people who are not familiar with it. Among pet snakes, the mild corn snake is very popular, it belongs to the snake family, originally distributed in the southern United States, Mexico and other places, life span up to 12 to 15 years, like to feed on small mammals, small birds, small lizards, frogs, salamanders, fish, eggs.

This snake has a very gentle character, and the breeding equipment can use a tall and wide, ventilated but sturdy breeding box, and some dead branches and water basins should be prepared in the box, and some reptile lights and electrical consumption equipment are used to facilitate viewing and winter insulation.

Corn snakes in North America are recommended, all kinds of king snakes (such as California king snakes) and various milk snakes (such as Nelson milk snakes) These snakes have been used as pets for a long time and have been domesticated for a long time.

Corn snakes, milk snakes, hognose snakes are all suitable. **Moderate, beautiful body color, juvenile food is suckling rats, adults are Xiaobai, simple to raise, clean.

Suitable for pets.

The snake meerkat belongs to the national second-class protected animals. Therefore, if you breed, you need to apply for a special breeding license. There are 2 species of meerkats in China, namely the crab-eating meerkat and the Javan meerkat of which the crab-eating mongoose is relatively common.

Wild meerkats are protected by the state and cannot be hunted, but they can be bred artificially, but they need to be approved by the Forestry Administration.