Pet snake story.. Good story.

Didn't know where else to put this, sorry if it's in the wrong place. Haven't been on here in awhile, but seemed like a must to post it here.

"When I was twelve, my parents got me a baby green garden snake for my birthday. I named the little guy Salazar, for obvious reasons. He was awesome. All green and smooth and he had these kick-butt snake eyes. He used to slither all over, wrap around my arm, spit white stuff on our furniture. Snake stuff.
A couple weeks later, I walked over to his terrarium to give him his morning meal, to find Salazar in a twisted S shape, mouth open, stiff as a twig. He was pretty dead. Upon closer inspection (trying to see through the hot tears erupting from my eyes), I realized the little guy had fangs. Not normal snake teeth, serious business fangs.
It turns out my best bud in the world was a baby Green Mamba, who had been picked up by accident in Florida (he'd somehow been blown or shipped there in the confusion of a recent hurricane), and then sent to my home state of Cali. Green Mambas are some of the most venomous, dangerous snakes in the world. The white stuff he'd been spitting (and I never really bothered to look into it, though it had always worried me) was venom.
I regret his death, and miss him dearly to this very day, so many years later. But I'm glad he didn't kill my entire family, all of our other pets, and me.
RIP in our front garden until the end of times, Salazar Short-lived. :(
(also the reason he died is because we weren't feeding him correctly. Green mambas don't eat dead crickets or snake pellets, they eat live animals...)"


He further comments saying he thinks it may have been a black mamba since it was an olive green as a baby, not yellow.

Talk about being extremely lucky not to have gotten bitten..

Wow, lucky guy

I can not help but be skeptical, though it is a good story, I'll give it that. ;)

Check the link, King of Liars. LOL

My question is what are "snake pellets"?

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http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...amba_thumb.jpg

fun story I do think it is a story however. But then again you never know.

Pretty sure Green Mambas are not "accidentally" sold into the pet trade. Maybe it was a vine snake? I believe they have fangs and are mildly venomous.

There's just so much wrong with that story. :rolleyes: I don't buy it for a second.

My question is what in the hell is a snake pellet? lol...
Is that like an owl pellet? lol...

And a green mamba is not going to be very tolerant of being handled, lol.
Plus I didnt know green mambas spit white stuff...

LOL, that is a great story :D

poor baby "mamba" :tears:

I call shenanigans.

Neither black nor green mambas have fangs that are easily seen. Both are rear fixed fang snakes. I've worked with both, for short periods of time, and never saw nor have I heard of, them spraying venom.

The white stuff was probably urates, if there was actually any white stuff at all.

My guess is that a crapfest was held and this was a runner up.

I had a link to the source but a mod removed it, even though I put next to the link a warning that the person used some colorful language.

Retarded.

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Originally Posted by Camarokidz28

I had a link to the source but a mod removed it, even though I put next to the link a warning that the person used some colorful language.

Retarded.

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It's not "retarded" it's the rules of the site that you agreed to abide by when you registered here.

Site Rules

Specifically, this part:

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I appreciate that you edited the quote to remove the offensive language. And while I appreciate the attempt at a "warning" about the link, as I said in my earlier message to you, if you have to give such a warning, then it is not an appropriate link to begin with. You can't break the rules of the site just because you warn people you're going to.

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Originally Posted by jbean7916

My question is what are "snake pellets"?

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I believe that they're something made up, just like the rest of the story.