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The common garden snake also called garter snake or gardner snake. They are not venomous. They have longitudinal stripes, usually red, yellow or white, resembling a garter as from a garter belt. They eat anything living, but rodents are considered the favorite gardener’s snake food. Although these snakes help us with rodent control, we don’t want them to get out of hand, and also with common garden snakes we may also be attracting venomous snakes. What to do?
Snakes senses vary from snake to snake, but all snakes have advantages over other animals. This makes them one of the most interesting, yet dangerous reptiles on the planet.
It is not difficult to care for snakes but then as we all would vouch, snakes are different. They are regal, dynamic, majestic, but dangerous. While caring for the snake pet, it becomes largely important to understand the various dimensions of keeping the pets handy. For instance, Snakes are cold-blooded. Now this means, they have to be bestowed with more care so that they can survive.
Caring for snake is easy and it can be effectively done. We just need to be careful about getting the basics right. First, we need enclosures; the size of the enclosures would depend upon the activity and the size of the snake. Active snakes like the Black Racer need a spacious cage to move around. Lazy bums like Boa and reticulated python can do with very small spaces. For inactive snakes, a cage equal in length to the snake and nearly as wide as three-fourth the length of the snake is good enough. For the restless species, the dimensions must be doubled.
The cobra swayed ever so slightly as he twisted his head from side to side eyeing us cautiously. Camera glued to my eye, I edged a bit closer, snapping off frames, playing with the composition. The snake struck the side of my face before I even knew what was happening. I fell backward, away from the blow, my heart pounding. Even though I knew that the de-fanged snake was harmless, adrenaline was coursing through my veins!
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