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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I have two; a male common corn snake and a male hognose. They are definitely not cuddly animals, as you stated. However, they absolutely can and do get to know their handlers, and learn how to be relaxed when handled - and they obviously enjoy it, since they often seek out being handled of their own free will (I usually open the enclosure when they’re “surfing” up against the glass and let them decide whether they want to slide into my hands). I’ve had them for a few years now and I have been bitten, but never out of “malice”. All biting incidents were my own fault due to inexperience, and the snakes mistaking my hands for their meal. A snakebite from a non-venomous or very mildly venomous snake is no worse than a bee sting. If you have cats, you’ve probably been through worse than whatever a snake can do to you.

    All in all, could recommend!

    Snake tax:



  • Oh, I’m very aware. My own (EU!) company has ISO certifications that “guarantee” our customers that all their data is perfectly protected.

    It is not. We, among other things, have plaintext user/password combos in scripting. Certain logs are certainly not being processed lawfully.

    It’s also not so bad as to be terrible but it still irks me a lot that we’re essentially lying to our users.