Saving a bp from petsmart!!

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Okay well here it is!! We shall call him damien!!

He's had that rat pup with him for 3 hours shows more interest in striking at me then eating...

Oh and we rescued a hedgehog today!!! She is awesome is blind (no eyes) but other than that she is healthy had her vet checked she had a big turd cursted on her foot but we soaked her and it came right off so here is a pic of her!!

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Ahh man i love hedgehogs, i used to own one. The old and blind ones are the best and usually the friendliest!!

Also i have rescued a Ball Python from the PetSmart that i work at. He has been in my care for about 3 weeks and during that time he has eaten for me every 2-3 days and poops ALL the time. At work he didn't eat on his own for 4 months, he went to the vet numerous times for weeks at a time, always got assist fed. I take him home, assist feed him once, then every other time he has eaten on his own and just yesterday took a live one.

I feel as long as you put this one in a small tub with a tight fitting hide and a water dish and LEAVE him alone for about 2 weeks, he should calm down and realize he doesn't have to be so defensive.

Being hes new if you were to offer food i would of done it a day after he had some time to settle in. Def not wise to feed a new snake in a feeding box and 99% of them will not eat.

Since you offered him already wait till this time next week and feed in his cage. Do not take him out.

Ya they had him at the store for 4 months and couldn't put him on the floor cause when people walked by he would strike lol

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Ya it was worth a shot tho but I fed off the pup to my boa lol she's a garbage disposal lol just look
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Originally Posted by mattyboymr

At the petsmart in my town...I went in and asked if I could look at em...and to my suprise they had a 400ish gram in with the 70ish gram ones...and it was eating one of them...and had it all the way swallowed down to 4 inches of the of the tail....0.o

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No way!! That's awful! I did not even know they would do that, even at the terrible conditions of petsmart! I wish they would just stop selling them, very sad...

Most of the pet stores in our area have stopped selling pythons and are even slowly weeding off selling other reptiles such as Bearded Dragons. When asked the general response I get is that the buyers bring their snakes back dead less than a month after purchase and want refunds.
I'm also seeing alot more balls popping up on Craigslist too from owners who have lost interest for one reason or another. sad indeed...

I see so many BP's on Craigslist. I keep telling my girlfriend that if we had the money and the space, I'd adopt every last one of them. I've only seen normals but wow, some of them are gorgeous! We're looking into getting another, but she wants a young one. She's more comfortable with raising it herself, which I can understand. I wouldn't mind adopting a 3-4 foot long one though. Would be funny to check out my dog's reaction when I bring Gene back into the bedroom and walk back out with a four foot long monster!

I rescued a Pinstripe from Craigslist and bought a nice 1000 gram female Pied from there too.

Jim Smith

All the Balls I see on Craigslist have been normals. It just really gets me that these people don't do their research on these animals and go ahead and bring them home and then realize just how much care they take to keep them healthy.
I actually rescued one ball python from a couple who, according to their own words, "bought the snake on a whim." When they got him home they realized they didn't have the stomach to feed the snake rats, either frozen/thawed or alive. So, they kept the snake 3 months without it eating when I took it from them. That poor snake was so malnourished when I got him home. Thankfully I got him in time. He's doing wonderful now and is a very happy snake once again.