Pet Store Sexing Unbelievable!

Seems cruel to subject your snakes to this to prove something you already know.

Can we get the 2 threads merged please

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...g-Unbelievable!

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Originally Posted by Deborah

So let me see YOU are willing to put your animal through unnecessary stress and are willing to jeopardize your animal's health so you can prove a point? :confusd:

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They have been popped twice out of their entire lifetime so far let's calm down just a bit, like I said I took two. If you don't have anything nice to say don't comment at all.

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Originally Posted by Mrl249

They have been popped twice out of their entire lifetime so far let's calm down just a bit, like I said I took two. If you don't have anything nice to say don't comment at all.

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Taking a snake places is stressful enough and then there is the possibility of transferring illness/mites from poorly kept pet store animals. When you add into the equation that it is very easy to injure a snake when sexing if you don't know what you are doing you get a bad situation that I personally feel is irresponsible.

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Originally Posted by Mrl249

They have been popped twice out of their entire lifetime so far let's calm down just a bit, like I said I took two. If you don't have anything nice to say don't comment at all.

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When you decide to start a thread, you invite comment. If you weren't prepared for the inevitable critiques, then you shouldn't have posted. I happen to agree with Deborah's sentiments myself.

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Originally Posted by ExotixTowing

Can we get the 2 threads merged please

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...g-Unbelievable!

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Yes we can! :gj:

Why would you put your snakes through all of that???? Just to find out the sex seems a little absurd to me. Deborah is right whether you like it or not. Oh, by the way, telling one of the mods to calm down seems a bit ballsy to me!

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Originally Posted by Mrl249

They have been popped twice out of their entire lifetime so far let's calm down just a bit, like I said I took two. If you don't have anything nice to say don't comment at all.

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And I assume those two are now quarentined away from your other snakes? :rolleyes:

Oh I am sorry, let me try again... thank you SO much for enlighting us on Petstores unriability when it comes to sexing snakes....now is that better?

Wouldn't want your feelings hurt by telling the truth now would we? :rolleyes:

Now to everyone else that may read this thread, exposing your animals to stress,possible injuries,illness,parasites beacause you are bored and want to make a point is NOT a good idea!

I wouldn't send my kids for a weekend with a suspected pedophile just to prove my suspicions so I could boast about it on a message board.
Maybe instead of just complaining about these stores, you could offer to help them properly sex their snakes or better yet, train their employees to do it. Most of the workers at these stores are well intentioned. Many even have reptiles of their own, they just don't have proper training.

I think that the subject is all wrong. It's not really all that unbelievable.

My local pet store when I first started in ball pythons didn't know how to sex, and didn't like probes, because they said it would sterilize the snake.

After building a relationship with them, they began to let me sex their snakes for them and even show them how to. I didn't mock them or make fun of them, and I purchased most of the adult females that were dropped off there by people who no longer wanted their snakes (this was in 2005/2006 when breedable normal females were still selling for over $1000 online).

I didn't however, ever take one of my own collection into their store. Anything I purchased from them went straight to QT into a PAM treated tub.

I would never do anything as risky as exposing any of my collection to a variety of pet stores just to prove a point, but that's just me.

Welcome to the friendliest online community for All your herping needs. :rolleyes: