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  • 12-21-2008, 04:15 PM
    Crazy4Herps
    Re: What is the longest amount of time you have left your BP and enclosure unattended
    I put 1-2 days, when I spend the night at a friends house or something, but I always call home to have somebody check on her.

    But that doesn't count this summer when I went on vacation for 5 weeks... but she wasn't "unattended", of course. I let a friend take care of her, and I got almost daily email and voicemail updates.
  • 12-22-2008, 05:31 AM
    nicktreb
    Re: What is the longest amount of time you have left your BP and enclosure unattended
    im going for 7 days, im sure my bp's will be fine
  • 12-22-2008, 07:37 PM
    BLOCK 213
    Re: What is the longest amount of time you have left your BP and enclosure unattended
    I have left mine for upto 14 days (summer holidays) but always arrange for someone, usually my son, to check them out every other day, and feed my tropical fish.
  • 01-02-2009, 10:33 PM
    Lucas339
    Re: What is the longest amount of time you have left your BP and enclosure unattended
    just returned from a 5 day trip to NC and everyone was fine but hungry!! im super glad!
  • 01-02-2009, 10:44 PM
    JamieLynn
    Re: What is the longest amount of time you have left your BP and enclosure unattended
    I can't be gone for more than one day, I have rodents to care for, and the pups at home too. If not for the pups and rodents I may be able to go as much as 3-4 days without getting too worried.
  • 01-03-2009, 10:42 AM
    ReptileJay
    Re: What is the longest amount of time you have left your BP and enclosure unattended
    I generally check everyone once a day, just to make sure they have clean water and nothing disgusting in their enclosures.
    2 days is about my limit for how long I think I'd be able to leave them unattended without starting to stress... I know they'd be fine for a week or so, but I really wouldn't be able to leave them that long... especially this time of year.
  • 01-05-2009, 05:22 PM
    anatess
    Re: What is the longest amount of time you have left your BP and enclosure unattended
    Just got back from a 9-day vacation. None of my family and friends will come to the house with the snakes there. So, the dog went to the nephew, the bird to the mother-in-law, the hamsters and fish are fine for 9 days - we've left them alone before. The fish has the automagic feeder. The ASF rats were about to have babies again, so I moved them to a super giant long tub, made the hopper twice as big, and put a huge water bottle. Fed all the snakes and left them all alone for 9 days. Got home and one of the ASF breeder was dead and buried in the corner. The snakes were good except the water dish was almost dry and one of the snakes pooped. Not sure what I could do with the rats. The dead one had no bite marks or anything - so must have had a heart attack or something. She was buried in almost 5 inches of bedding! I had a little over 2 inches of bedding all around and it seems like they dug up all the bedding in one corner, pushed the dead rat in it and then piled a lot of bedding on top. It was sad because she was a pet.
  • 01-07-2009, 04:11 PM
    SnM_Man
    Re: What is the longest amount of time you have left your BP and enclosure unattended
    well at least she had a fitting burial !
  • 01-08-2009, 10:25 AM
    mooingtricycle
    Re: What is the longest amount of time you have left your BP and enclosure unattended
    I check my animals almost daily, sometimes i skip a day or two here and there, but mostly, im always just checking for poop and urates, or anything that might need cleaning. I dont like my enclosures to get dirty for even a little while, the snakes dont have anywhere to go so id prefer that they dont crawl around in it, if i can help it ASAP. :gj:
  • 01-08-2009, 07:33 PM
    wmanning
    Re: What is the longest amount of time you have left your BP and enclosure unattended
    well ill be gone on foreign exchange this summer... 9 weeks... to Costa Rica.
    but my best friend will be keeping my 2 so theyll be in good hands :D
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