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in said scenario, you're choosing one of the three. cost varies by color morph it ranges from about 50 for a normal snake to 15,000 or more for the rarest morphs since they require a lot of morph cross breeding across generations to generate. upkeep is about average cost for a cat or dog, though different care requirements.
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Boop Snoot-thons don't eat cats or dogs, they eat either varying sizes of rats, or mice, depending on size and weight of the animal in question and how picky they're being(they can be very picky, and spend a lot of time fasting for various reasons such as mating season, competition, not enough hidey holes, they got scared, they aren't moisturized properly, they don't want to eat that prey item). live feeding is generally very frowned upon, except as a last resort, as it has a chance for the snake to get severely or fatally injured if it doesn't want to eat at the moment. people buy pre-killed frozen mice or rats(or other specialty prey items) from special feed farms and thaw them to about room temperature so the snake sees the heat and thinks "that looks like food"(they smell with their tongues, and see heat with [url=https://i.imgur.com/GqJlDMx.jpg]the pits on their face[/url]). fun fact: they curl up into a "ball" like that because they get scared af of everything. they also make adorable :3 faces. large adult reticulated pythons(which is an entirely different kind of snake from the ball python) can eat a medium sized rabbit or chicken or two. retics are in a whole different care ballpark from a BP and are for advanced collectors only. they get much bigger, they're much stronger, they need more space, they're much more nippy, and they can take two people to wrangle because they can grow to 2-300+ pounds and live for 30 years or more with the proper care.