Ball Python or a Hamster?

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Hey everyone! I plan on moving out in a couple years and if I live in a small apartment where I can't keep a cat or a dog, I would like another pet since I'm going to miss our cats when I move out.

I've had two hamsters in my lifetime. When I was in eighth grade I had a hamster named Cherry (full name Cherub Vineyard) and she was awesome! The only thing about hamsters is cleanliness. Cherry escaped a few times and ended up in my bed once while I was sleeping! Another thing to worry about is if potential neighbors have cats and my hamster were to escape (like Cherry did).

My other choice would be a ball python. I've been told that they are very sweet and docile and good for snake beginners, but like a hamster escaping, I worry about the snake escaping and animal control being called and never seeing my little reptile again

How do you become a perfect snake owner?

We have had 3 snakes, 1 was/is a ball python. Originally we decided snakes were a good addition to our family due to allergies. Jesse (the ball python), has been a great addition to our family. If you decide to go with a python, make sure you find a really good house for it, they are amazing escape artists. Ours got as far as outside once, we discovered it at 2 am while trying to get the cat in (long story- given to us by a neighbour, who wasn't long for this world).

lol, she ended up in your bed? how'd she get up there? once one of my hamsters escaped from his home while i was out of town, i couldn't find him and i went into my room...and he was staring me in the face, on top of the clothes cabinet just to the left of the entrance! unless his house was being kept on there, i just can't figure it out. we still have him, he's the sole survivor of a set of three we took home summer 2013

i've been keeping hamsters on-off since i was 7, they are a wonderful starting pet, mediumish maintenance in my experience but they aren't as able to reciprocate love like some other pets can, they don't really have as much to give. but they are adorable.

'scuse me, i'm just confused, you say you're worried about neighbor's cats but in the apartment complex where you'll be living in..... cats (or dogs) won't be allowed there?

I'm worried that my particular living space will be too small to house a dog or cat. Plus I can't drive so the more low matinence the pet is the better

Cherry was a pain to clean up after. Otherwise I find hamsters to be really sweet animals. She didn't bite. As far as I can remember she only bit me once. We also had a hamster named Axel who had red eyes. The most pets I've ever lived at the same time with were Shianne who was a beautiful cat with a bit of an attitude, Axel the hamster and we also had a bird named Archie. That
bird was as loud as a misbehaving child at the grocery store. Shianne actually put all four paws on his birdcage hung from it and Archie was all "eeeeeeee!! ! Eeee!! !!" Flapping his wings screeching while Shianne who was a rather large cat wanted him to be her dinner.

I cannot handle birds. Especially after getting bit by an African grey parrot.

that explains it i thought you meant they were not allowed.

and yeah, they are really sweet, i remember carlton when we first got him, he bit most everyone else but me, so i was the only one that had even a semi-good impression of him. and then he bit me...sharper than anything i would have imagines by such a small furry guy, my reflex threw him halfway across the room with the same clothes cabinet breaking his flight. he was the most bite-y though. others bit much less.

what kind of hamster were cherry and axel? we currently have the one hamster, mochi, a 1 year old mutt julie (who last night was barking at mochi in his house!), 13 year old cat pickles who gets along with the hamsters somewhat, but not the dog, and 18 cockateils! julie sometimes does to them what shianne did to archie.

I'm not sure, but they were very tiny and had pale fur. Axel was almost all white with red eyes and Cherry was a medium brown and I'm pretty sure she had a white belly. I'm assuming maybe Russian dwarf hamsters because of the size.

I grew up with cats and hamsters. My first cat Amber, was the first pet I owned that wasn't a fish. When I was in elementary school I saw this beautiful cat near the front door of the school and my mom and I loaded her up in our car in took her home. Amber would sleep on this zebra print pillow on top of my head. She had an accident on a piece of furniture and I sprayed it with perfume so we wouldn't get in trouble. She even ate my Beta fish, Braveheart. I came home one day and there's my fish on the floor with those tacky beads you put in the fish bowls. Being a young girl, of course I was a little bit upset, but I didn't have the heart to scold Amber. Sadly, I went to spend the night and my grandparent's house, came home the next day and Amber wasn't there. I asked "Where's my kitty?" and my dad said "You don't have a kitty." I was crushed! I don't know why Amber was gone, but I know she had a problem with her back leg where the bone would pop in and out.

It's amazing how that little cat became a girl with Aspergers best friend. Sadly I don't have a digital picture of her, but I have a picture of Amber and Shianne from an early 200s camera. Sorry if I sound too depressing. Cats have been a huge part of my life.

Now I have to cats named Jude and Tucker. They are amazing cats. Jude likes hugs and Tucker follows one of my family members everywhere.