Can you keep an anaconda as a pet?

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Yes you can. I've had a few, and never liked them. If you want a large snake, there are others with better temperaments. Anacondas have nasty tempers, and quickly grown to a dangerous size.

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Until it eats you.

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Yes never had one but they can get expensive with all of the feeding

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My son had a friend that got an Anaconda when it was very young. He kept it till it was about 8 Ft long and then when he was feeding it he ended up getting bitten. Needless to say he got rid of the snake. Anacondas are notorious for having bad temperments. I love snakes but would not keep that particular snake. I don't know that you could ever really call it a Pet. I enjoy snakes that I can handle without worrying that it is looking at me like I was it's next meal.

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Yes you can but it is a very complicated husbandtry you have to have a bucket full of water for a water dish and a "swimming pool" big enough for it to relax in and you have to have a cage big enough as well... I'd stick with something less temperamental than an anaconda if you have never had a snake maybe a ball python(small python) or a burmese python or maybe a red tail boa just to get started into anacondas and if you are gonna get an anaconda get a Yellow Anaconda they are smaller 12-14 ft insted of a green anaconda which can reach the length of almost 30ft the anacondas are not the longest snake but they are the heaviest so you're gonna have to have other people help you carry it. anyways good luck...

PS Bob Clark of Oklahoma sells Green Anacondas

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Get a grizzly to go along with it. That's one way to keep the in-laws away.

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Yes and no. Yes because when they are still young (probably 1%261/2 ft. long or less) they appear cuddly and tame and easy to control and carry. However, once they grow to several feet (5ft. or more) that's the time when things may turn unpredictable, nasty and out of control.
We had had a python before (a cross between Indian and Burmese) which we bought at a very young age (less than 1ft. long) and appeared lovely and tame (the breeder told us that it was hatched in his farm and not in the wild). My family and I have learned to love him, not only because he was easy and inexpensive to maintain (he eats only once a month on a cheap throw-away chicken heads) but also for the fact that he appeared to respond to our affections.
Not until I've seen a number of incidents shown on TV (such as 'Believe It Or Not' and 'Pets Gone Wild') where snake pets had turned against its owners (a good one was the one caught on TV at a restaurant where the python bit the owner near his right eye). I had one similar incident too with our pet python (anacondas and pythons are cousins, aren't they?) when he was already three feet long but it was not as serious as the one caught on that TV programs. It was not his fault though (our pet python) because I knew that he was caught unguarded and unaware of what he did. I felt that it was just his 'wild' side manifesting itself.
Eventually, when he has grown to more than 9 feet, we've concluded that his size could post a danger to us and decided to donate him to a zoo in our area where he can be better taken cared of. We visit him occassionally because we are entitled to a lifetime free entrances to the zoo park for our donation.

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Technically, yes. In some states you need a license to own large snakes.
I highly suggest you NOT get an anaconda as a pet. They're the second longest snake in the world--rectic python has set new record at 38 ft!--and are the most muscular snake in the world. They are also aggressive by nature.
DON'T DO IT.

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