Snake Keeping – A friend just asked me why do people keep snakes when they ought to be in their natural environment. Of course it would be easy if life were that simple.
Why keep any animal I suspect it because people love to have animals around them and gain much from their company.
Many snakes are endangered because of humans taking over every tiny corner of the earth and many humans hate snakes and will kill them immediately whether they are a danger to them or not.
Personally I believe that people should be educated about the types of animals that live in their local habitat; I’m sure this would have been the case years ago before people became uneducated about their locale.
I find it amazing how this lack of education has come about, but back to the subject some people keep snakes because they are beautiful to look at, some because they want to make lots of money from breeding special “morphs,” myself I felt and feel that they have a special something to teach us and those in captivity are teachers as are many animals living with humans.
They have taught me tolerance and calmness, they are extremely therapeutic to hold and have contact with. Children often know this from the word go and fall in naturally with getting to know them, adults are set in their ways but when they realise what a wonderfully receptive creature they are to know and spend time with – they are literally bowled over and fall in love with them.
Relaxing with snakes
