#snakeblogging

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

happy year of the snake!!! here are some of my favorite pics of Kazul to celebrate 🐍🎉❤️

[songofsaraneth]

when Kazul wants me to open her door she contorts herself in front of the glass until i notice

[lill-klippen]

[bigbadfrostwolf]

Got to spend a little time bonding with the new baby

[watchfulgoth]

pls enjoy these pics of dante and celestine bonding!!

[dailydragons]

Since people were already interested, this is her!! These are the photos from the breeder, not ones I’ve taken--I’m on a 12 day work trip so am waiting to have her shipped until after I return. She is a Guyanese BCC born August 2nd of this year :) She’s already starting to show a lot of pink color on her sides & face, she’s gonna be beautiful!! 

I’ll post again once I have received her :) Until then, I now return to your regularly scheduled dragon art.

[foulserpent]

i wash my hands after handling the mouse and come back to see her like this

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

You have a snake named Kazul??? I have a cat named Cimorene and I just had to explain her name on a work call today 😂😂

AHHHHH perfect cat name!!!!!!! from a perfect book!!! i think most people in my life think the name "Kazul" is just a fun sound but the ones that get it always go "OMG ENCHANTED FOREST!" and make it worth it hehehehe. Someday I will sew myself a version of the dress Cimorene is wearing on the cover of my very battered beat up copy of Dealing With Dragons so I can take pics with Kazul in it ❤️

[songofsaraneth]

Kazul would Not leave her hide today so i gave up on getting a nice pic of her and took this instead at 11pm. Happy year of the snake!

[nagayna-snake]

23.02.2015 год.

8 месяцев.

Нагайна только-только приехала из зоомагазина в своё новый дом и немного шокирована вниманием к её персоне <3

[menderash]

@lemonheadandlollipup idk why you just liked a handful of my snakeblogging posts but i love and appreciate u for it

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

Snake blog says that some Youtubers are sometimes good sources for specific advice, but to take what they say with a grain of salt because of things like how they keep their animals. They have a whole post about not liking Snake Discovery's enclosures, especially for their legless lizards. Not exactly a glowing endorsement. For the NERD thing, Snakeblog said they practice good snake hook technique, but had no idea about any surgery. (1/2)

(2/2) Snake blog said they don't know what the surgery was because they haven't kept up, but explained that venom labs do minor stuff on their own like eyecap removal because many vets can't deal with venomous animals. They then specified that if a venomous snake does need something more invasive, though, then you should try to find a vet anyways, and doing an actual surgery is TERRIBLE at home.

Right, so here’s the thing about that:

It doesn’t matter if it isn’t a “glowing endorsement” if a blog considered to be knowledgeable about reptiles is sending people to animal abusers as a guideline for care, that is still a serious problem.

I have no doubt I could find some decent advice on owl diets or something from one of the many owl pet keepers on YouTube. I would still never send laymen to those channels as a “good reference” just because a broken clock is right twice a day.

If someone is searching the blog for good channels to watch for notes on care, do you think they’re going to take time to read through and find the disclaimers that the channel is also bad, or do you think they are going to just skim the post and click over to Snake Discovery and use them as a guideline for care?

If your only disclaimer is “their enclosures could be better” and not “hey these people are animal hoarders and abusers who neglected an alligator for seven years while using it as a prop for profit putting the well-being of both the animal and people at risk by dragging it around to public places on a leash with its snout not banded” it isn’t exactly a very good disclaimer either.

It’s exposing people to the content in a neutral light at worst which allows them to normalize what they are told by that content. The layman isn’t going to keep the enclosure issue in mind that long because they’re going to shift to seeing cool reptiles and charismatic people speaking to the camera in a confident tone that implies they actually know what they’re talking about.

That is how you get Snake Discovery and NERD more subscribers and fans in general. Not at all good for the future of reptile pet ownership.

Even if we take at face value that they didn’t know what the surgery entailed, wasn’t NERD the ableist and at least somewhat racist one? Or was that one of the other horrible snaketubers.

[lill-klippen]

bro if snake told me to be a good girl id just go insane

[snekerdoodles]

The amount of snakes on this blog is perfect. Thank you for your hard work snakeblogging

I’m crying thank you I needed this

[watchfulgoth]

Because I haven't shown her off yet, meet my baby girl Hella(named for Hella Varal from f@tt)!! She's a Spider ball python, total babby. I love her v v much 😢💕💕💕

[dailydragons]

Hi guys! DailyDragons admin Jade here. I have a quick off-topic post and then it'll be back to dragon art! Are any of my followers reptile keepers? Specifically, I'm looking for people with experience keeping red-tailed boas (Boa constrictor constrictor). I have been preparing for the last two months and sometime after the next two weeks (depending on weather) my baby guyanese boa constrictor will be arriving!!! I've read every article on keeping them I can find/Vin Russo's book/dozens of forum posts, but I'd love to get in touch with anyone who has more experience with boas and is willing to answer questions from me should they come up. I don't have anything specific I Need To Know at the moment but I'm sure there's things I'll encounter on the way, and it'd be nice to have a few people to refer to instead of spending 3 hours on google comparing results (as I did while setting up the thermostat probe in my tank last night). And for everyone: how do you guys feel about me posting occasional photos of my snake here once she's arrived? She may not have wings, but I will be naming her after one of my favorite dragons :)