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Are millions of years of evolution keeping you from taking your pet snake for a walk?
Keeping snakes in rack drawers is very common in the US, as it is the most efficient way to house them, both as far as cost for the setup and ease of maintainance goes. It's very easy to keep that type of enclosure clean and at the proper temperature gradient and humidity. People who do this also argue that their snakes are cryptic animals that do not move around much and like to hide in confined, dark quarters anyway and that we shouldn't project human perceptions of what's an appropriate enclosure on an animal with entirely different needs, which ... isn't exactly wrong, but completely disregards that there's highly active and curious snake species, that there's arboreal snakes, that even terrestrial species will eagerly climb from time to time and that mostly living in underground burrows doesn't mean the snake never goes outside to explore. Yes, many snakes will be stressed out if you keep them in open spaces, they'll only be inside their hidebox and never out in the open when you put them in a giant, empty terrarium. But that's an entirely different issue when you put them in a giant terrarium full of plants, hollow tree stumps, leaf litter piles and climbing branches. Some of the more inquisitive species like boas will even push against the terrarium doors when they want to be left out and crawl around in your living room. They do not want to spend their entire life in a drawer even if they're generally chill mfers who only eat once a month and move accordingly little.
It's a contentious topic, and i'm personally against keeping snakes in this way. I couldn't bring myself to house an animal like this and i absolutely think that when you have so many snakes that you need to keep them like this to keep them all clean, you have way too many snakes. Bigger is always better when it comes to aquariums and terrariums. When you keep pets that need a special environment in a box to live inside your house, you should make sure it's the largest box you can afford and that the animal is able to show its full range of natural behaviors in there and doesn't become bored. That's actually much less effort for most snakes than for other animals their size, it's for example possible to keep a 2 meter long snake in a terrarium that fits in a one bedroom appartment, while the same is rather difficult with a 2 meter long lizard, at least if you also want to live in that appartment. But even for such sedentary animals that like to just chill as much as snakes, there's limits to how you can house them.
Keeping snakes in rack drawers is very common in the US, as it is the most efficient way to house them, both as far as cost for the setup and ease of maintainance goes. It's very easy to keep that type of enclosure clean and at the proper temperature gradient and humidity. People who do this also argue that their snakes are cryptic animals that do not move around much and like to hide in confined, dark quarters anyway and that we shouldn't project human perceptions of what's an appropriate enclosure on an animal with entirely different needs, which ... isn't exactly wrong, but completely disregards that there's highly active and curious snake species, that there's arboreal snakes, that even terrestrial species will eagerly climb from time to time and that mostly living in underground burrows doesn't mean the snake never goes outside to explore. Yes, many snakes will be stressed out if you keep them in open spaces, they'll only be inside their hidebox and never out in the open when you put them in a giant, empty terrarium. But that's an entirely different issue when you put them in a giant terrarium full of plants, hollow tree stumps, leaf litter piles and climbing branches. Some of the more inquisitive species like boas will even push against the terrarium doors when they want to be left out and crawl around in your living room. They do not want to spend their entire life in a drawer even if they're generally chill mfers who only eat once a month and move accordingly little.
It's a contentious topic, and i'm personally against keeping snakes in this way. I couldn't bring myself to house an animal like this and i absolutely think that when you have so many snakes that you need to keep them like this to keep them all clean, you have way too many snakes. Bigger is always better when it comes to aquariums and terrariums. When you keep pets that need a special environment in a box to live inside your house, you should make sure it's the largest box you can afford and that the animal is able to show its full range of natural behaviors in there and doesn't become bored. That's actually much less effort for most snakes than for other animals their size, it's for example possible to keep a 2 meter long snake in a terrarium that fits in a one bedroom appartment, while the same is rather difficult with a 2 meter long lizard, at least if you also want to live in that appartment. But even for such sedentary animals that like to just chill as much as snakes, there's limits to how you can house them.