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My younger son is moving into his own room, primarily to give him and his brother some personal space and stop my house sounding like a never ending wrestling match. Previously I asked you all about Ball Pythons, with the result that eldest now has his beloved snake and all is good there. On the weekend we went to a small zoo and sat down for the reptile show, where my youngest, at the grand old age of five named every single animal, country of origin, food stuff and happily, carefully held everything from snakes to cockroaches. So the question there is then, what pet to get him? It's a small room, so height of enclosure counts more than width. It needs to be something he can handle, not to jumpy or skittish. Primary care will of course reside with myself and my wife with him learning and assisting. He is equally fascinated by Snakes and Lizards and we have all enjoyed having the python around. I took a quick trip into my local specialist today for advice and came back with Crested Gecko being the primary choice at this time, probably in an exo-terra crested setup with additional UV lighting. Anything else I should consider or are we on the right track with this? Jekub fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Feb 3, 2015 |
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Rethinking, thanks for the advice and the (mostly) polite way it has been delivered. We will revisit this in a few years, the house has more than enough animals as it is anyway (cats, dogs, fish , snake, garden full of wildlife), he gets to spend time on my sisters farm and we have membership at the local zoo so he's not exactly deprived of animal contact. But fair points all round, the reason I asked before commiting was to confirm if this was going to be a workable plan from people who have personal knowledge and if the answer is no, then it's no. Jekub fucked around with this message at 11:24 on Feb 4, 2015 |
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Feb 4, 2015 10:14
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:
I shall be sure to check that all the hedgehogs, squirrels and house spiders running around England are not murderous before letting him down the garden in future. It a dangerous world out there after all, just last week a small field mouse killed a child at his school. And yeah, he knows 'look but don't touch'.
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Feb 4, 2015 16:08
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Somebody was mean to me because I asked a dumbass question. Let me be a passive aggressive little shitstain.
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Eifert Posting posted:I was serous about that Whites Tree Frog, Jekub. 5 is probably too young but they're super low maintenance Thanks, I was looking at some of the frogs in the shop I'll ask about them next time I'm over that way, but I won't be moving ahead with any plans around moving anything into his room now anyway. We will reconsider once he is a bit older, the local reptile specialist runs a five week childrens training course on care and handling which our older son attended last year (he is still not allowed the keys to Bullseye the Ball Pythons viv even if he got a certificate, handling and access is on a strictly parental supervision requirement). Once the youngest is old enough to attend the course and we see how he manages that we will revisit this idea.
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Feb 4, 2015 17:20
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pants cat posted:Jekub, have you considered giant land snails? Your 5 year old can feed them lettuce and they likely won't jump out of his hands. I had not, but I'll look into it, thanks. My wife used to have them in her classroom so I'll ask her later. That and frogs sound like eminently more sensible ideas for when the time is right. As the keeper of two planted aquariums I spend most of my life trying to reduce my snail population, doing the opposite would be weird.
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Feb 4, 2015 19:33
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