Tell me your stories!

[AlyssaLu]

I just thought I'd ask you all about any stories that stand out to you that's happened with you and your snake(s) that you'd like to share

P.s. Happy Halloween!

[SylverTears]

There's a funny one I remember when I was six years old and acquired my first snake, a corn snake named "Slinky". I had a friend over and I wanted to show off how cool he was, so I let him crawl on this finely netted hammock. He was just a little juvenile probably no bigger than 14", and I was not supervised. He actually crawled in the netting and got stuck. I freaked out and called my Nana, who came and gently cut him out of the net.

Since then, I've had many experiences. I've taken snakes incognito into walmart. There's also been several times that I've hid them in tubs in restaurants (on the way back from acquiring them, of course, I wouldn't subject an established animal in my collection to that stress). One time I took an adult normal ball python into an Italian restaurant in a tub, covered him with a coat, and no one found out until the end haha. I was younger at the time and realize that isn't a very responsible thing to do now.

Wen my boa "Four" was a baby, he escaped out of his enclosure and managed to crawl up the wall and curl around a plate hanging on the wall- I have no idea how, as it was probably 5 feet off the ground. Another time more recently I asked my younger sister to hold him while I cleaned his cage, and she started texting her friend and he ended up crawling onto a chandelier and nearly ripping it off the wall.

[redshepherd]

I think the worst thing that's happened to a few of us (me and my dumerils boa and two ball pythons) was when we were tricked into going outside to meet a guy (who I barely know from years ago) who actually just wanted to ask me out to lunch?

He messaged me first a few weeks prior on facebook, telling me how he was looking into getting a pet snake, asking me about which species would be best for him, how my species are, all kinds of info, etc etc... It was pretty convincing, so I just went with it. He asked if he could meet my ball pythons and dumeril's boa in person, so I said sure. And this was planned like two weeks in advance too.

So when the day came, I packed up Cake, Yukon, and Vigil and drove them to our old school parking lot. He meets them, holds them and looks at them for literally 2 minutes max, doesn't even ask me questions about my snakes, and goes "So have you had lunch yet?"... lol. I'm like bruh, I brought my snakes, I need to bring them home. AND I already had lunch. He didn't seem seriously interested in my snakes at all once meeting him in person, it was just a waste of time and my snakes time.

And that's on top of the fact that he randomly tells me, "You know, I killed a rattlesnake last week. So I'm pretty sure I can handle any snake now!" ... as if telling me, who has pet snakes, that you intentionally took the life of an animal is a good thing? And taking life is totally the same as caring for life, right?


ETA: Sorry, I totally thought this was in the off-topic cafe forum LOL. But there's ball pythons involved, so. =P

[Reinz]

I think the worst thing that's happened to a few of us (me and my dumerils boa and two ball pythons) was when we were tricked into going outside to meet a guy (who I barely know from years ago) who actually just wanted to ask me out to lunch?

He messaged me first a few weeks prior on facebook, telling me how he was looking into getting a pet snake, asking me about which species would be best for him, how my species are, all kinds of info, etc etc... It was pretty convincing, so I just went with it. He asked if he could meet my ball pythons and dumeril's boa in person, so I said sure. And this was planned like two weeks in advance too.

So when the day came, I packed up Cake, Yukon, and Vigil and drove them to our old school parking lot. He meets them, holds them and looks at them for literally 2 minutes max, doesn't even ask me questions about my snakes, and goes "So have you had lunch yet?"... lol. I'm like bruh, I brought my snakes, I need to bring them home. AND I already had lunch. He didn't seem seriously interested in my snakes at all once meeting him in person, it was just a waste of time and my snakes time.

And that's on top of the fact that he randomly tells me, "You know, I killed a rattlesnake last week. So I'm pretty sure I can handle any snake now!" ... as if telling me, who has pet snakes, that you intentionally took the life of an animal is a good thing? And taking life is totally the same as caring for life, right?


ETA: Sorry, I totally thought this was in the off-topic cafe forum LOL. But there's ball pythons involved, so. =P

That dude is a slime bucket.

[redshepherd]

That dude is a slime bucket.

Seriously. And apparently very stupid lol.

[Ax01]

one time i was sent a Blade Clown by mistake and i returned it!

[Ax01]

also this one time i bumped into a colleague at the petshop next to our work. i was buying live feeder rats for my picky eaters. she was aghast at my purchase. she was buying big goldfishes or something. why? b/c she uses it to feed raccoons that live around her house/neighborhood.

[voodoolamb]

I had an escapee that found her way to my utility closet and worked her way under my hot water heater. Where she stayed. I drained the hot water heater and had the central air turned off so she wouldn't get hurt. For a couple of weeks. I called a handyman out to the house to see if they could move the heater so I could grab her. No way to do it without risking her getting seriously hurt.

Eventually I lured her out by zombie dancing a rat. It took 4 attempts of that before she was hungry enough to slither out.

Lesson learned: 3000 g ball pythons can slither under door cracks smaller than my big toe lol