how to get over fear of letting people watch my snakes?

Glad this post came up because I'm always nervous about leaving on vacation and what to do with my animals. I have never been gone for more than a week until later
this month im gone for two and a half weeks.

I actually have someone staying at my house everynight to monitor everthing and to call me if there are problems. I lucked out on finding someone I trust that is available to do this and family isn't possible to come by to check up. Anyone ever use reptile sitters or anything like that? I don't like the idea but I might have to consider it if I am ever gone again for long periods of time in the future.

I'm the homebody type so i don't leave my pets. One dog, two cats, large oscar fish and two boas. I don't trust sitters especially since no one in my family are animal people.

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Originally Posted by Deborah

Next time you want to consider not feeding right before you leave, and give them a few days to digest before heading out.

While rare there are always possibilities of regurgitation and if it happened while gone not only would it not be a pleasant experience for you once you return but could have severe consequences depending on how bad the regurgitation was.

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Thank you. I'll keep that in mind

This is why we chose to get a pet snake and only 1 pet - we can go camping (or on vacation) for a full week as long as we're home to feed her on a Sunday. Love my low maintenance sweetie <3

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Originally Posted by L.West

I'm the homebody type so i don't leave my pets. One dog, two cats, large oscar fish and two boas. I don't trust sitters especially since no one in my family are animal people.

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I usually try to stay close to home or where my snakes are because I'm in between homes for the summer, but my mother flew me to Florida for my birthday so I went. And I don't trust anyone with my pets because I know from experience it can end up bad, and my sister is very forgetful. & my mother loves telling me everybody not a animal person