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277 Secrets Your Snake and Lizard Wants you to Know Unusual and useful Information for Snake Owners & Snake Lovers

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This book was unbelievably interesting. I only expected to just look at it quickly but found myself looking at every page, and finding something that was like "wow' on every one of them.

There were a lot of short articles on many subjects and they were written in a fun and light manner and were really easy to read. Some of it made me laugh, and I learned a lot about snakes in general, for example, their mating habits, and about dangerous snakes, (lots of great stuff on that) and rattlesnake facts and all kinds of things I've never seen in other books.

The author seems to have gotten lots of tips for owners from snake owner newsgroups or mailing lists of people who owned snakes because I found a lot of very practical stuff on how to keep snakes, and what to do about mites, and how to handle neighbors who hate snakes, and feeding snakes and terrariums and traveling outside with a snake all from people who had snakes.

If the author wrote another book on this subject I'd buy it in a second but for the time being, this is the best book I've ever seen on snakes. I will keep it always because I like snakes.

Ths is a fun book to read if you have any interest in snakes, and a vital part of your library if you keep snakes, or contemplate keeping them. There are lots of "how I do it" tips from experienced snake owners that aren't found in most other snake care books, such as how to safely transport your snake with you in a car, or how to keep your snake cage cool during a heat wave. These helpful hints and fascinating facts are written in a lively manner, with a lot of humor. While the sections are short so you can consider it "bite-sized" reading, I found it hard to put the book down before the last page.

277 Secrets Your Snake Wants You To Know is an easy-to-red, informative, comprehensive and reliable compendium of information about snakes covers both the common and the uncommon when it comes to snakes. Author Paulette Cooper provides an invaluable overview of the snake, fascinating facts, intriguing tid-bits, and "slithery stories" the covers everything from getting snakes in the mood for love, what to do if you are bitten by a snake, the health problems of snakes, and what to know about dangerous snakes before it's too late! 277 Secrets Your Snake Wants You To Know is fun, informative, and highly recommended reading for anyone considering their own vivarium, researching the serpent, traveling the rainforests, or just visiting the zoo.

A preview of the fascinating secrets for snake owners and snake lovers (and there's lots of great facts inside for lizard lovers too!)

Ten ways to get snakes to "like" you more * Dirty tricks of snake sellers * Do snakes like music? * What snakes really think-and think of you * Do snakes have feelings? * Ways to save money on supplies * How to tame and train a snake * Do snakes like cats and dogs? * What snakes can see, hear, smell, and "say" * How snakes make love * 10 mistakes owners make * Can a snake watch TV? * 4 tips for making snakes eat * Tricks for opening your snake's mouth * Can you catch mites from your snakes? * How to sex your snake * A simple way to get most snakes to release you * How to tell your neighbors that you have a snake * Getting your landlord to let you have a snake * Find a lost snake * Are sliding doors safe? * The best substrate * Do snakes like each other? * How smart are snakes? * How long can snakes remember? * Shipping a snake * Turning a wild snake into a captive one * The answer to legal questions for snake owners * 5 tricks to avoiding being bitten * Helping fat, constipated or shedding snakes * Amazing records, unusual snakes * What to expect when your snake is expecting * Fascinating facts about venomous snakes * Do snakes really go for babies? * The worst place to get bitten by a snake * Should you name your snake * How to give a snake away * The long and short of measuring snakes * How to travel with a dangerous snake * Euthanizing a snake humanely * Are devenomized snakes safe? * Snake "chastity belts" * Is sphagnum moss dangerous? * Could your snake start a fire? * Protecting your pet from earthquakes * How to tell one snake from another * What's wrong with the movie Anaconda * 2-headed snakes * How to tell if your snake likes to be petted * The world's rarest snake * Snake yawning * How snakes eat prey-including people* And much more!

I didn't realize how fascinating snakes can be until I picked up this book. It's full of interesting information about snakes and lizards. I wish other books about animals were written this way because this one is so educational, but it's also entertaining.

I found this book entertaining, and somewhat useful. It's full of fun little facts, but a lot of common sense information. As far as being helpful, it would be so only for a novice. This is obviously not a how to book on keeping snakes, but provides some tips and tricks on their care. For detailed care of snakes, I fully recommend anything published by Advanced Vivarium Systems.

I couldn't put it down -- it was the most interesting book I've ever read on snakes (and I've read over 20) and maybe the most interesting book I've read on any pets -- there's no indication that the author has any first-hand knowledge of snakes but it makes it so much more interesting since she seemed to have talked to a lot of people and read a lot of books and gives people the best of it and it's all written in a light fun style that makes it hard to put down if you are interested in snakes.

This book was very easy to read with lots of good, fun and interesting facts/tidbits etc. Very laid back style.

I did totally love this book, and had trouble putting it down. That being said - this is not a care guide, and is basically just a book of "fun facts". A lot if the information is common knowlege to anyone who has kept snakes for any length of time, and I didn't learn anything of real particular use in it, but it was fun to read. But then again, I wasn't really looking to find "that great lost secret that nobody else has ever known". If you are very new to snakes, or are interested in learning about snakes, or interested in someday purchasing your first snake it would probably be more informative - but is still basically just a fun read, and just has fun facts and tidbits.

This was an informative book on raising boas. Maybe the author tried too hard to make it enjoyable by using silly jokes after almost every paragraph. I thought it to be somewhat amusing at first, but after several pages when I saw a pun or joke coming I tried my best to skip it. Still yet, I am happy to have read this book and would recommend it for novice herpoculturists.