After 6 years, I discover "Petunia" is a male..:(

After seeing the albino nelsons milksnake featured in the Lemony Snickett movie, I just had to have a "Petunia" of my own. I bought a tiny baby at the Hamburg show from Outback Reptiles, insisting I get a female. Fast forward six years plus to today, when I try to put "her" in with another male. I never intended on breeding her, but a customer had a really nice male, so I thought why not? Petunia began acting very strange, and started freaking out when she came in contact with the male. I began thinking, but refused to accept what I was seeing. No. No way. Cant be. So, I probed her. Male.:O I still love him anyways as one of my pets and wonderful "education" animals. Ive been calling him "Petunia" for the last six years tho! I even have a little pink transport container for him with his name on it! And little flowers and cupcakes! Well, I guess HE is going to have to stay "Petunia" cuz I cant bring myself to call him anything else. Oy.:rolleyes:

I had a bearded dragon I bought as a female that I named Elizabeth... well "she" turned out to be a "he"... I had him housed with another male, and they'd have a little fight every morning for a few minutes, and then be fine the rest of the day. At first I had them separated, but they became friendly enough with each other to live in the same tank, and both passed away around 8 years old within a few months of each other. Anyways, he also kept his name :P

I had what I thought was a male snow motley corn snake. I named "him" Severus. Turns out, with a little probing, "he" is actually a "she". I never changed the name. xD

We had a pastel boa thought to be a male and named "him" Bernard. Turns out it was female but we kept the name

LOL a friend named his male normal BP Colt. After he had to move back in with his parents and his dad didn't want it in the house we took in Colt. Colt seemed danged big for a male so we checked, and she's now "Collette".

Magnus hasn't been probed, so I run under the assumption that he's male. It'll stay that way until I get "him" probed. He's a pet, not a breeder, so I'm not worried about it. Heh. I could imagine him as anything but my Magnus.

Sometimes I wonder if Satin is a "he", since she was a rescue. Both the rescue woman and a vet said she was a girl, but when the vet probed her she said she wasn't "100% certain". (Then again this was the place that misdiagnosed Loki twice)

I don't have the extra money to get her checked again, and I don't really mind either way. Maybe if I ever decide to breed her I'll find out, but for now she's a pet and we love her no matter if she's a boy or girl.



And I don't think she cares what we think she is either. xD

i got a "female" and named her Wenifred but 3 years later we found out he was Fred. which messed up my breeding plans but i love him just the same.:D