Breeding And Keeping Snakes

A fully revised edition of the classic book on snake care! Featuring the most up-to-date equipment, expanded facts on feeding, and newly written species accounts, along with 70 full-color photographs and updated diagrams, this guide provides all the essentials that every snake-keeper should know. * Set the correct degree of temperature, humidity, and light for your snake to thrive--it not only wants to be warm, it needs to be. * Fix up a cage in ways that make snakes feel comfortable and secure. * Keep your snake healthy with valuable advice on disease prevention, covering overhandling; the introduction of wild species into a cage; bacterial, viral, and parasite infections; and other miscellaneous problems. * Mate and breed snakes--even incubate eggs. Plus--special information on selective breeding. * Full species accounts include boas, pythons, colubrid, venomous, and small snakes. You'll turn to this handbook again and again! 224 pages, 95 color illus., 6 x 9.

Guide to selection and housing, feeding, care and social factors

Do you want a pet that wont wake you up with its barking, doesnt need daily walks, and can go for a week or more without being fed? If so, a snake might be for you.But owning a snake is not easy. You need a container and other specialized equipment to make sure that your pet lives a long and comfortable life. Like any other pet, snakes can become ill. Most snakes eat only small animals such as mice. You may not be comfortable with feeding them. This book will help you decide if you really want a snakeand if you do, to convince your parents that you can be a responsible caretaker for this terrific pet.

For the first time a book covering all Australian python species written by leading Australian breeders. Covers housing, sexing, breeding, egg incubation and raising young snakes. Contains graphs, charts and many coloured photographs. Sections on diseases and disorders and colour and pattern mutations of Australian pythons. Also includes information on natural habitats and behaviours.

These attractive, considerably small and generally docile snakes are easy to be around and make for hours and hours of viewing them a pleasure. They are not aggressive and are usually accepting of frequent handling by their owners. Whereas many other snake species are most active at night, garter snakes are often up and about whilst the sun is up. You will get to know the different kinds of garter snake and which ones can be kept as pets and ones that you will need special permits for and why. You will find out about what they eat, how to house them as well as their requirements. Breeding, taming and keeping them will also be covered in this book. Garter Snakes General Info, Purchasing, Care, Cost, Keeping, Health, Supplies, Food, Breeding and More Included!

Discusses the physical characteristics, health, and behavior of snakes and provides information on keeping these animals as pets.