Corn Snakes & Other Rat Snakes (Complete Pet Owner’s Manuals)
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Dedicated pet owners will rejoice at this comprehensive reptile guidebook! Corn Snakes & Other Rat Snakes provides advice on purchasing, housing, and caring for your rat snake.
Rat snakes (of which corn snakes are the most popular) come in a variety of colors and patterns and are known for their even temperament. Rat snakes are easy to care for, making them ideal for beginner snake owners!
Corn Snakes & Other Rat Snakes is part of the B.E.S. Complete Pet Owner’s Manuals series and provides advice on feeding, health care, housing, and all other important aspects of responsible pet ownership.
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All of the books in the B.E.S. Complete Pet Owner’s Manuals series are written by a pet trainer, veterinarian, or other pet-care specialist and contain high quality, full-color photos and instructive line drawings.
Publisher : Sourcebooks
Publication date : May 26, 2006
Edition : 2nd
Language : English
Print length : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 0764134078
ISBN-13 : 978-0764134074
Item Weight : 9.1 ounces
Dimensions : 6.5 x 0.32 x 7.88 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,696,551 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #358 in Reptile & Amphibian Care #1,139 in Pet Food & Nutrition
Customer Reviews: 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 38 ratings var dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction; P.when(‘A’, ‘ready’).execute(function(A) { if (dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction !== true) { dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction = true; A.declarative( ‘acrLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault”: true }, function (event) { if (window.ue) { ue.count(“acrLinkClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrLinkClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } } ); } }); P.when(‘A’, ‘cf’).execute(function(A) { A.declarative(‘acrStarsLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault” : true }, function(event){ if(window.ue) { ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } }); });
Kida Whelan –
Great Rat Snake Resource
Great resource. Lots of generalized info as well as each individual species. I’ve been having a hard time finding info on my specific species of rat snake(Everglades) and the book was incredibly informative about them and several others as well.
Amazon Customer –
Best snake book
Very informative book. Answered many questions we had!
Lesley Haynie –
Great photos of most rat snakes.
This book dealt with the many changing issues on the taxonomy of rat snakes which really helped me since I was very familiar with the old taxonomy. Plus I learned about the rat snakes outside N.A..
BCNoord –
Five Stars
As advertised and timely delivery
Dodo Bassoon –
Lots of colour photos. Great info. Great for a new snake owner.
S. Bright –
Bought this due to a previous viewer saying its mainly about “rat Snakes” than corns (corn snakes are a type of rat snake even says it in the book). Anyways exactly what i wanted I’m looking into a Rat Snake – particularly “Red Tailed Racer” very detailed on all species – Looking after, Temperament, temps etc. Would recommend the book hands down 🙂
Nick –
I grew up on the older version of this book when I got my first corn snake. I bought this one recently, curious how they had updated their information. Itâs from 2006. Iâm sure in 2006 the information was great, but facts are out of date. For example shedding, there are many ways to help a snake shed where your pet wonât have to spend the night in a damp pillowcase. Heat mats are also a bit dated. They are still used but I find the best heat that also provides ambient heat are heat bulbs or ceramic heat emitters. First time owners should look up facts from many different sources and sources that are from 1-2 years ago. This book being more than a decade old just wonât suffice as the only source for beginner snake owners. There are still some great facts and beautiful pictures!!
K W Moore –
Seems to be a good grounding in the subject. Quite USA focused in its language and perspective and it can be a bit dense for younger readers.
melc07 –
This is a good book and very informative with plenty of good quality pictures however the titl gives the impression that it is mainly about corn snakes ‘and other rat snakes’ but the book seems to centre more on the rat snake.I was dissapointed to be honest that there were’nt more pictures and information on corn snakes.