What to do when things go wrong? Discussion.

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Originally Posted by Skyrivers

Lighten up! JK

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Don't worry, I was laughing when I typed that.

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Think about how strong and healthy those babies would be from her. :D:O JK

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She made gorgeous babies with a fair amount of striping and jungle type patterns. I had gotten her from a friend when she got out of snake keeping/breeding. All the babies were excellent feeders...never hesitating to strike. :D

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Haha i hear ya. I'm 48 as well and assuming my snakes and especially my little gila live to their golden years, I'll be around 78 by then......I'll be that weird old man with snakes and lizards lol.

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LOL.... so will I! I assume by then I will have a zoo to will to someone.

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Sounds like we’ll have quite the club. We’ll be the life of the party in the senior community. :D

I will be quite old if mine live to their lifelong expectancy

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I already have mine, that I don’t own yet, willed to my kids.


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...Sounds like we’ll have quite the club. We’ll be the life of the party in the senior community. :D

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This just reminded me of a discussion on a now-gone snake forum, that we ought to get a group-living arrangement/community going so we can all be there to
help each other handle their big boas [as we get older], "snake-sit", & all that. I can see the regulations now: MUST HAVE SNAKES. :cool: We were only half-joking.

That's one of the big problems of large constrictors: it's not always convenient to have a group of snake-savvy friends on hand for safety, so most of us take
chances doing things alone or with fewer standing by than we should have.

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This just reminded me of a discussion on a now-gone snake forum, that we ought to get a group-living arrangement/community going so we can all be there to
help each other handle their big boas [as we get older], "snake-sit", & all that. I can see the regulations now: MUST HAVE SNAKES. :cool: We were only half-joking.

That's one of the big problems of large constrictors: it's not always convenient to have a group of snake-savvy friends on hand for safety, so most of us take
chances doing things alone or with fewer standing by than we should have.

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Safety is one of the biggest reasons I’m not looking at adding any more of the larger boas, even though I love them. I really don’t have many friends that will help with my snakes, so they have to be safe solo handling. I’m also trying to plan for as many contingencies as I can, as I plan to keep everything for its lifetime or mine, whichever comes first. I really love the ball pythons, and added 8 different morphs last year that I really liked or had wanted for years. I’ve looked at a couple of different smaller pythons as well as considering a gtp for my Mom, but believe I’m set for now. Maybe. Probably. I think. :oops:

I can see us now, in our seniors with their reptiles community.

Hey Bogert, hold my walker while i pick up Athenas tail off of the ground.

Don't brake your hip, Zina! Oh, I won't if Dianne will shuffle over here a little faster and help me get her back in her cage..

Oh, I'm coming I'm coming. Now, where did I put my glasses! Bogert, are you wearing my glasses again?

What? Where? Who?


meanwhile...Athena slithers away silently..

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I can see us now, in our seniors with their reptiles community.

Hey Bogert, hold my walker while i pick up Athenas tail off of the ground.

Don't brake your hip, Zina! Oh, I won't if Dianne will shuffle over here a little faster and help me get her back in her cage..

Oh, I'm coming I'm coming. Now, where did I put my glasses! Bogert, are you wearing my glasses again?

What? Where? Who?


meanwhile...Athena slithers away silently..

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Lol such a great commentary.

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I can see us now, in our seniors with their reptiles community.

Hey Bogert, hold my walker while i pick up Athenas tail off of the ground.

Don't brake your hip, Zina! Oh, I won't if Dianne will shuffle over here a little faster and help me get her back in her cage..

Oh, I'm coming I'm coming. Now, where did I put my glasses! Bogert, are you wearing my glasses again?

What? Where? Who?


meanwhile...Athena slithers away silently..

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:rofl: Yeah, now I'm picturing some heavy-duty walkers with pouches to carry our snakes? "What could go wrong?" :rofl:

Hey I'm all for the snake pouches!!!

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We can totally trick out our walkers !!!

Hooks to hang snake hooks, paper towels and a spray bottle and other snake paraphernalia. We will have Pit make the walkers all fashionable with his cool art hobby. And we will have Calm have a motorized cart that pulls a little trailer, so he can still have a Burm or too and tote it along with him.

Sauzo's walker will have perches all over it, to hang his GTP's from !! So they can hang out while he cleans cages. His Gila will have its own little shopping cart child (lizard) seat in the walker.

Oh yeah, we'll make it work :)

And how could I forget !!!

Zincubus will have this whole hair dryer station installed on his walker. He will be our frozen/thawed/hairdry guy :)

The OP will not be happy where this thread is headed!

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Originally Posted by MR Snakes

The OP will not be happy where this thread is headed!

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(shrugs) life happens.

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I think as long as its all in GOOD fun, no negativity, no disrespect, no snipping at each other, its all cool. Sometimes it goes off topic, then it comes back. The info is in here, the help is in here. The rest makes it a bit more fun, rather then dry, which will keep people reading and that is a good thing.

Even when you hold presentation (show and tells) with these animals for education, you have to mix in a bit of fun, or you will end up standing in front of 2 people while the rest slowly slink away, LOL



Speaking of cohabitation, it definitely is a very bad idea. For many reasons.
Cannibalism, injuries, feeding problems have all been discussed.

Another one is the inability to really monitor a snakes output. Sometimes there are issues with waste. They either do not have the output they should have, or it doesn't look right and there is a issue. Which you will not know WHICH snake to attribute this to. Which snake to keep an eye on, which on to intervene with.

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(shrugs) life happens.

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My view also.

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Originally Posted by zina10

I think as long as its all in GOOD fun, no negativity, no disrespect, no snipping at each other, its all cool. Sometimes it goes off topic, then it comes back. The info is in here, the help is in here. The rest makes it a bit more fun, rather then dry, which will keep people reading and that is a good thing.

Even when you hold presentation (show and tells) with these animals for education, you have to mix in a bit of fun, or you will end up standing in front of 2 people while the rest slowly slink away, LOL



Speaking of cohabitation, it definitely is a very bad idea. For many reasons.
Cannibalism, injuries, feeding problems have all been discussed.

Another one is the inability to really monitor a snakes output. Sometimes there are issues with waste. They either do not have the output they should have, or it doesn't look right and there is a issue. Which you will not know WHICH snake to attribute this to. Which snake to keep an eye on, which on to intervene with.

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Just teasing. You should know that by now..........

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My view also.



Just teasing. You should know that by now..........

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Oh, I do, I do :P

So confused, just like every other day. 😂

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Oh, I do, I do :P

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Like this?

https://youtu.be/tW3HN_pvbE4

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Originally Posted by zina10

I think as long as its all in GOOD fun, no negativity, no disrespect, no snipping at each other, its all cool. Sometimes it goes off topic, then it comes back. The info is in here, the help is in here. The rest makes it a bit more fun, rather then dry, which will keep people reading and that is a good thing.

Even when you hold presentation (show and tells) with these animals for education, you have to mix in a bit of fun, or you will end up standing in front of 2 people while the rest slowly slink away, LOL



Speaking of cohabitation, it definitely is a very bad idea. For many reasons.
Cannibalism, injuries, feeding problems have all been discussed.

Another one is the inability to really monitor a snakes output. Sometimes there are issues with waste. They either do not have the output they should have, or it doesn't look right and there is a issue. Which you will not know WHICH snake to attribute this to. Which snake to keep an eye on, which on to intervene with.

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I know. I might come across as a tyrant sometimes but I am a squishy Crestie in the end.

Not to derail the derailed thread, but along the lines of what can go wrong that is preventable:

Travel

Your snake should be double-enclosed when in transit. Snake in a bag, bag in a box or tub with locking lid. Snakes are escape artists and you don't want it to end up under a seat where it can get injured on exposed metal or wires, or disappearing into your car's dashboard. I cringe every time I see a picture of someone holding a snake while driving.

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Not to derail the derailed thread, but along the lines of what can go wrong that is preventable:

Travel

Your snake should be double-enclosed when in transit. Snake in a bag, bag in a box or tub with locking lid. Snakes are escape artists and you don't want it to end up under a seat where it can get injured on exposed metal or wires, or disappearing into your car's dashboard. I cringe every time I see a picture of someone holding a snake while driving.

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Excellent point about travel. Along the same lines, any temporary tub used while cleaning cages needs to be secure.

Locking lids that are secure are the way to go. I can't Imajin trying to put rainbow in a bag at her size.