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Reptiles as pets
- Thread starter Olivia
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Never had one especially snakes. I'm not comfortable around them. I may keep a lizard or chameleon.
A chameleon is a lizard
A chameleon is a lizard
I'm real real glad my girlfriend got rid of her monitor lizard. That thing was f***ing mean as hell.
Without going back through 'history books', (for me)...aren't those things really toxic? I mean, I think I recall reading that they carry such a vile assortment of bacteria in their mouth that if they bite you it's very hazardous to your health. ??
Yes. Another reason why I wanted to get rid of it. It had a very disturbing hiss when you'd go up to the terrarium and it would bite at the glass.
I don't think snakes are dirty either. ??
The bigger ones like the boa constrictors are. Their turds are huge. The smaller snakes not so much.
Oops! Or maybe you were talking about Wessel's monitor lizard 'thing'
?Totally different, not a snake.
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I do think snakes really are a very clean animal; on kind of a gross note: I don't know why snakes are not a normal part of our 'food chain'. They're waaaaaaaaaaaaay cleaner than chickens.
Oops! Or maybe you were talking about Wessel's monitor lizard 'thing'
Totally different, not a snake.
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I do think snakes really are a very clean animal; on kind of a gross note: I don't know why snakes are not a normal part of our 'food chain'. They're waaaaaaaaaaaaay cleaner than chickens.
That snake enclosure smelled like a horse barn 🤢
Well, duh, everything's turds are nasty!
As I (quite vaguely) recall: the monitor lizard consumes mainly carrion which they chew, and the raw, decaying meat stays in their teeth and mouth & the bacterial growth rapidly becomes poisonous or toxic. Snakes, on the other hand consume their food live and swallow it whole; therefore much cleaner.
And, on the OTHER hand
, chickens will eat ANY sort of nasty thing they can find. Like scratching around through cow patties & horse plops; and even pecking at sores on each other. 
Maintenance, baby, Maintenance!!
California king snake
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