Bill Corwin reptilegems@aol.com sold me sick snakes

My name is Chuck Poland and I bought a pair of jungle carpet pythons from Bill Corwin. They were sold to me as late 07's from the soul glow highlighter pairing produced by Andrew Hare. When I received them on April 24 2008 they were very small to be even a late 07 animals so I e-mailed Andrew about Bill buying these animals from him. Andrew checked His Paypal records and said he had No Paypal record for Bill Corwin, but if he payed another way it is possible that he did buy the jungles form Andrew. Andrew went on to say that a vast majority of his transaction are done through Paypal. So I am not saying these animals are not what they were sold as but there size on arrival sure puts a huge question mark on there bloodlines. Putting that aside I noticed after the first feeding that one of the animals had loose runny stool. Then when the other went it had a bit of a loose stool also. I took them both into the vet this week and had a fecal run on them. The Vet did a direct smear Fecal and found Trichamonas a protozoan parasite. I explained to the vet that the snakes stool was loose since the snakes came into my possession. He said based on that they were loaded with them way before they ever got to me. So I want to warn everyone that Bill Husbandry hygiene is not good, and he sold me sick animals. Oh and to boot the vet popped them for me, uh ya both of them are males so needless to say I am bummed and upset I had to take these guys to the vet to get them treated for parasites which there is really no excuse for, but lets say there is an excuse for it he still sold them to me either knowing they were sick or not knowing they were sick. Either way I wouldn't want to buy from him again if he didn't know thats really pretty bad if he did that is inexcusable. I e-mailed him to let him know about all this but he has not e-mail me back. Maybe I will get a reply from this, I hope so as I really want to hear what he has to say about this.


Chuck

Take this to Fauna and put it on the BOI.

You'll get a much better response there.

Good luck.

Already did but I just wanted to post it here also.