Keeping bp's warm while transport

[TimNA]

Long story short, I am taking a few of my bp's into my daughter's kindergarten class tomorrow morning. The weather has been in the low 60's at that time of day. It should take about 1 1/2 hrs there and back. I want to make sure they don't get too cold during this little event.

I was thinking of transporting them in individual sacks in a medium sized wheeled cooler. I was thinking warm water bottles at the bottom newspaper between the bottles & the snakes to just make sure they don't over heat.

Does this sound like it would work?

Also about what should the temp of the bottles be? A bit warmer than 90? or right at 90? I am assuming they will cool quite fast so not even sure if it's worth even doing the bottles.

Thanks as always

[JenH]

Yep - I do the hot water bottle trick all the time when taking snakes to shows in the cooler months. I use a small cooler and place the bagged snakes on one side and the bottle on the other. Or I put the bagged babies in small bags then put them in a 6qt shoebox. I can stack two boxes in my cooler and then put the hot water bottle on one end of the cooler. I try to give them enough room that the can move away from the heat if they want.

[LLLReptile]

You can also pick up the 40 hour heat packs commonly used for shipping (99 cents most of the time) and toss a couple in the cooler. That's what I do when bringing my animals places in cooler weather. They are also commonly available at sports places as "hand warmers" or something similar.

-Jen