Craigslist rescue

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I'm apparently back in the ball game... story time.

I used to keep quite a few balls, my best was a nerd lavender albino het. It was an expensive animal at the time. And I was partnered with a ton of redtails. My partner and I also made plastic cages, rat racks etc. I bred a bunch of dart frogs, all kinds of stuff. But i have been snake less for over a decade now. Just dogs and cats. My 9yo son has been asking for a green snake for probably 2 years now but I've been dragging my feet. I just haven't been that excited about dead cricket smell.

Anyway I was perusing the free section of cl a couple weeks ago and found an ad for a free bp, along with a sales price of $100, no pics. So I emailed and spent a couple weeks going back and forth. She was originally trying to sell but gave up and just needed a home. She didn't have pics but said it was a female dreamcicle, 2.5 feet long. I found that.... intriguing.

A couple more emails and finally a pic, and an apology. Not a dreamcicle, but an orange dream. I was a little dissapointed but for what I was intending a pure normal was absolutely fine, my son was going to freak regardless.

I went to look at snake a couple days ago and get the background. The snake is "at least 4 years old" and was bought at a local reptile/exotics store called incredible pets by current Owners friend. Original owner moved and asked current to take care of her. Current owner has decided she is in over her head, snake is not feeding etc and she wants a good home. So really, I'm probably a pretty good person to talk to even though I'm going to have to remember a whole lot I haven't thought about in a long time. At least the background is there to start from.


Anyway, she's 4 to 6 years old but only 995g. She was getting fed every "3 to 4" weeks, I'm guessing for her entire life. No thermometer but obviously the cage temp is low. But despite that she looks pretty clean and surprisingly healthy just tiny for her age. And she is a "orange dream crossed with something". The owner assumed ut was a ball crossed with some other type of snake and thats why she was small. I had tomexplain thats not the way it works... So mystery snake ☺. She's obviously been handled well, very inquisitive after only a few seconds of handling. All in all, a good ball and a pretty girl. I'm warming her up now and will try feeding tomorrow. She needs to fatten up to say the least. They said they had only fed live but hopefully she's hungry enough once warmed up to take frozen.

My son is ecstatic and she'll have a good home. Good week, even if she's not a dreamcicle. I'll have to find a way to post pics here, I'm curious what others think the "something" she's crossed with is.