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Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Boas As Pets"Patriots"


Patriots
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Enjoy the pictures of my Boas!! Lar M Owner of Boas By Klevitz


Albino Male & Fem '04 Boas probably Coral

Anery Fem '04 Boa 66% Pos Het For Snow(means 66% Pos Het Alb)

"Scarlet"ScarletPastel Hypo J.Ronne Produced.One of the reddest Boas in the world!

Boas As Pets
Boas Make Wonderful Pets
Boa Constrictors make great pets for anybody.In particular though people who have allergies. Any person who is allergic to cat dander or dog dander knows how miserable it is when these animals are present. Even though cats & dogs are such wonderful companions.When a person is sneezing with a stuffed up nose. Their eyes are itchy, red and irritated.As wonderful as they are,it just isn't possible to keep cats or dogs when allergies flare up due to the presents.
These people need not live their lives without a companion pet.A wonderful alternative does exist, Boa Constrictors. Boa Constrictors can help fill the empty gap that exists in a persons life when their allergies force them to give up having cats or dogs around. There are so many different colors ,Localities ,Morphs and patterns to choose from.Large Adult Boas like Colombians or smaller forms such as Central American Boas. Nicaraguan or Honduran Boas are popular Central American (C.A.) Boas people enjoy collecting.Then there are island Boas ,such as Hogg island,corn island or crawl cay Boas.None of these C.A. or Island variety Boas tend to get very large.This makes all of the C.A. Boas popular Boas in collections as pets!!
Boa Constrictors make wonderful pets & are harmless to humans!

Boas As Pets

Boa Constrictors make great pets!! They are very easy going docile animals.They cause no harm to humans, and have no interest in doing so. Statistically no person has ever been killed by a Boa Constrictor in the United States almost certainly not world wide either.

Boas As Pets

I'll never understand why so many people have such a great fear & hatred of Snakes. Of course, Venomous snakes are dangerous,deadly and certainly pose a danger to any human. Although most snake bites are accidents.The snake bites in defense after being stepped on by an unaware human.Most People are never in a position to be exposed to venemous snakes though. What doesn't make sense are people with an intense hatred or extreme fear of Boa Constrictors? These animals,for the most part are extremely gentle and timid creatures. Boa Constrictors are quiet non aggressive snakes. The only time Boas become aggressive is at feeding time for the most part. Of course there are exceptions to this .Boas can act out aggressively if they feel threatened with harm.In captivity most Boas feel quite secure ,remaining calm and quiet. Boas can eat a wide variety of animals in their natural habitat. Which is for the most part the Jungles of Central and South America.Boas diet consists of Lizards, Rodents, other snakes, birds, and small mammals to name a few. The Boa Constrictor will normally feed on an animal smaller in size then the Boas girth at the largest spot. Boas can not & will not eat or attempt to eat homo Sapiens! Homo Sapiens a far too large for the Boa Constrictor to take notice! The Boa "Constricts" its prey not crushing it to death but suffocating it to death. Every time the prey breaths out the Boa tightens its grip eventually the prey item can not inhale a breath and suffocates.In captivity Boas are fed a diet of mostly medium & Large Adult Rats.Young smaller Boas are fed mice of appropriate size. The size of the food item corresponds directly to the size of the Boa. Some Boas are fed rabbits.Most Breeders feed their Boas pre-killed rats.A Rat can badly injure or even kill a Boa.Plus, personally I just don't Like the idea of putting a poor rat in the cage to killed by the Boa. Also I think pre-killed or frozen thawed in my case helps keep the Boa even that much more docile.
The Boa Constrictor species consists of a large variety of Locality Boas and color pattern Morphs.There are two main groups or classification of Boa Constrictors. These two groups are "BCI"- "Boa Constrictor Imperator" and "BCC"- "Boa Constrictor Constrictor". "BCC" Boas are often referred to as "True Redtails" due to their bright orange/red or maroon/ burnt-Red tails.Almost all Boas have a reddish or orange colored tail,not all though. The BCC Boa mainly comes from South America near the Equator. Peru , Guyana, Surinam, Brazil the Amazon Basin.Other South American Boa species exist,Bolivian Amarali Boas,from Bolivia of course. Bolivian Boas are very beautiful silver greyish colored Boas with bright orange ,red,purple or fluorescent pink highlights on their flanks and a short amount of reddish color tail splotches. Argentina has their own variety of Boa as well.These Argentine Boas are very dark colored.This dark color probably exists so the Boa can warm up from the Sunshine quicker being the farthest South of the Boa Species. Argentina's more harsh weather climate forced the Argentine Boas to adapt. Argentine Boas are protected By "CITES" because they were hunted for their skins so much in the past.There are many other Locality Boas I have just touched the surface here with the more well known or popuplar species. Other types of Boas within these groups of "BCI" & "BCC" Boas exist.I'll refer to them as color and Pattern Morph Boas. There are many natural occurring Color and pattern Morph Boas that have been discovered. Many of the Color and Pattern Morph Boas are Man made or developed.Some of the natural occurring Morphs are T- Albino Boas-red eyes lacking red Black pigment or Tyronase.Tyronase is what the "T" stands for. There are two types or strains of T- Albino Boas. The original Strain or Kahl strain and the other is the Sharp StrainAlbi no Boa.T- Albino Boas are more common then T+ Albino Boas.There are very few people who own T+ Albino Boas.There are two types of T+ Albino "BCI" Colombian T+ Albino Boa or Caramel Albino Boas as some people call them. The other "BCI" T+ Albino is the Nicaraguan T+ Albino. Argentine T+ Albino Boas also exsist.Another natural occurring Morph Boa is the "Anery" Boa short for Anerythristic Boa.The "Anery" Boa Lacks any red pigment and should appear white or sliver and black,some are a brownish color though. Another Morph is the "Hypo" Boa short for Hypomelanistic. Then there are some natural occurring pattern Morph Boas Like the Arabesque or the Motley Boa. Pictures are a better explanation for these two Morphs.Then there are many man made Morph Boas .Breeders combine these Natural occurring Morphs to create Boas Like the Snow Boa which is a combination of the T- Albino and the Anery Boas. Sunglow combo of the T- Albino and "Hypo" Boas. Ghost Boas are a combo of "Hypo" and "Anery" Boas. Pastel Boas Stripe Boas and many other types of Morph Boa exist.T+ Albino Boas are very rare though.Only something like six people in the entire world own Colombian T+ Albino "Caramel" Boas. As for T+ Nicaraguan very few of these exist either. T+ Argentine Boas are rare but there are quite a few more of these then the other two.
So over all what's not to Like about Boa Constrictors .Boa Constrictors are mellow easy going animals. With beautiful markings and coloring. Boas not all but alot of them are very intelligent acting. Some Boas are even socialable animals and interact with people very well. Some Boas know there names but like most kitty-cats they don't come when they are called either. They do Look at you when there name is spoken the special Boas ,not all of them. There is no dander or hair shedding from Boas. So allergies are not a factor.Boas shed their skin every few few months that's usually in one piece.They kind of roll it off starting from the tip of their nose working it off towards the tail.Once the skin has been shed it's inside out and rolled up much Like a women rolls up her stockings/Panty Hose. Feed the Boa a frozen thawed rat every seven to twentyone days aproximately.Keep there water dish clean & full as well as their enclosure .There's not much else to keeping them as pets.Breeding them is another story altogether.Well I'll put a few pictures up now and again to show all the different types of Boas.

Harlequin Boa '04 boa

Coral Albino '02 Boa

Colombian T+ Albino Boa

MaleSunset Hypo"Sonney" Boa

Sunset Hypo Fem Boa "Hooters" head Shot

Hypo Stripe '04 Fem Boa Ihle"MP"Line

Hypo Male '04 Boa Ihle"MP" Line

Non Hypo Sibling'04 Male Boa "MP"Line

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