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[adrian_tepes]

The one on the right is the coloring I'd like to get. I'll be looking into this more seriously in the next few days. The coloring of the Royal Python that I'd like is called the "Desert Ghost" morph. Pretty cool looking.

Although, if I don't end up getting a snake that can live upwards of 30-40 years, the pet store apparently also has Goliath

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[nightangel929]

Get the snake, get the snake...ew ew ew. *dies at the thought of a poor little mouse being eaten alive by a spider*

Here's my LAME advice...

[fallen_leapyear]

Remember, hun, it is totally up to you. GET WHAT YOU WANT! So long as I never have to witness a mouse being brutally killed, and neither of the animals will eat my face off, I am totally cool. But in the end, it's your pet. Do what makes you happiest!

[adrian_tepes]

To Simone: The fact that the spider has the ability to repel you is an added bonus. *wicked laughter* Hi-larious

To Sam: The Spider has a natural defense. When it feels threatened it makes a hissing sound by rubbing it's hind legs against it's abdomen. A side effect of this is that it rubs the hair off of it's abdomen in the process, which then get into the air. People that have witnessed this say it is highly irritable to the skin and eyes, and if inhaled it's described like having shards of fiber glass in your lungs. I'm gonna have to guess that's not pleasant.

[deli_trash]

I look forward to going to the pet store with you and watching your kid in a candy store face while we look at all sorts of unusual pets

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For Samantha, it is rare, but not unheard of for large constrictors to kill their owners or other people in the house. So don't feel to bad for the mouse. It could be you. As they get bigger they need bigger food, like rats, and I think you would really have to be careful about the family dog and cat.

There is a pet magazine devoted entirely to reptiles. I read a couple of articles about snapping turtles and their care before mine (Gul Dukat)died at the age of 23. Another very interesting low maintenance but not very affectionate pet. They can also live over 50 years. You only have to feed them dead frozen fish from the grocery store. I was really interested in getting an alligator snapper, it is a subspecies of snapping turle that grows to be even larger and is not as aggressive. I would have kept him in the pond outdoors, but I would have to heat it all winter. They are partial to the southern states.

Lisa

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P.S. ask the pet shop or a reptile hobbiest if the the unusually colored varieties live as long. They may not, because the mutation that causes the color change may also have an effect on their health

Lisa