Horrible people! I have to vent

Sorry if this is wrong forum but I just had surgery today on my knee and I got a call from my brothers girlfriend and she said hey I need help my aunt does animal rescue and got a call and said this lady is leaving her ball python in 40g glass breeder outside the house basically to die because she couldn't sell it. Mind you i have been home from knee surgery maybe 3hrs and I, well tried to jump up and yell get him to me, luckily she had him in the car already. Horrible shed really peicey BUT overall healthy looking, her son went to college and couldn't bring it, just amazes me how people are. So I got it back here and gave it a great soak with some she ease and got rest of shed off. [emoji1]
Once again sorry if wrong area I just had to vent.

Omg!!! That's just insane, ppl like that need to be put in the same situation and see how they like it... Disregarded like yeah smh! Luckily ppl like you care enough to take it in & actually give it a home to live or it's days!

Good luck with the knee surgery btw

So what did you do to soak it? My snake has a stuck shed (Thats what another called it) I am new to snake keeping and need to know what to do.

You can literally soak it in tepid (feels slightly cool to you) water (about 1" worth), but what I do is eat paper towels and put the snake in a tub with the wet paper towels and a rock to scrape on... Leave them for a couple hours and it usually is taken care of.

To the OP: I've never understood those people... The same type releases their cat / dog outside instead of taking them to a shelter. When there are other options available, why would you almost guarantee the animal will die?

You eat paper towels?? I don't see how that would work ( :O:O:O:D:D:D ) (I know what you meant, I'm just kidding)

My favorite method of getting off a bad shed is to soak a snake bag in warm water, put the snake in the bag, tie up the bag and then put it back in the cage. Check on it every so often to make sure the bag stays damp. This usually takes care of the issue within an hour or two.

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Originally Posted by auhsojnacnud

So what did you do to soak it? My snake has a stuck shed (Thats what another called it) I am new to snake keeping and need to know what to do.

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Basically I just filled a tupperware with warm water and added some stuff ,shed ease, and literally let it sit for 20mins in there and then massaged trouble area gently and BOOM [emoji95] came right off [emoji4]

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Originally Posted by GerianAmoure

Omg!!! That's just insane, ppl like that need to be put in the same situation and see how they like it... Disregarded like yeah smh! Luckily ppl like you care enough to take it in & actually give it a home to live or it's days!

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Honestly if I was able to walk I wanted her to take me there and let her know how I feel about that.

Bags of kittens on freeways, dogs locked up in foreclosed houses, pythons left to die outside...

Maybe we should just exterminate all humans?

I'm glad he's safe with you.

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Originally Posted by Sterling30

Sorry if this is wrong forum but I just had surgery today on my knee and I got a call from my brothers girlfriend and she said hey I need help my aunt does animal rescue and got a call and said this lady is leaving her ball python in 40g glass breeder outside the house basically to die because she couldn't sell it. Mind you i have been home from knee surgery maybe 3hrs and I, well tried to jump up and yell get him to me, luckily she had him in the car already. Horrible shed really peicey BUT overall healthy looking, her son went to college and couldn't bring it, just amazes me how people are. So I got it back here and gave it a great soak with some she ease and got rest of shed off. [emoji1]
Once again sorry if wrong area I just had to vent.

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you're a hero. im so glad that you took the snake. im sure he'll have a great home. people like that sicken me>.>

Ugh. Poor thing. At least he was lucky enough to wind up with you.

We stopped in Petsmart tonight and I found a half dead milk snake baby......told one of the associates and she just took the little cage in the back....needless to say we left and didnt buy a thing....and won't anytime in the future either.

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Originally Posted by Sterling30

Sorry if this is wrong forum but I just had surgery today on my knee and I got a call from my brothers girlfriend and she said hey I need help my aunt does animal rescue and got a call and said this lady is leaving her ball python in 40g glass breeder outside the house basically to die because she couldn't sell it. Mind you i have been home from knee surgery maybe 3hrs and I, well tried to jump up and yell get him to me, luckily she had him in the car already. Horrible shed really peicey BUT overall healthy looking, her son went to college and couldn't bring it, just amazes me how people are. So I got it back here and gave it a great soak with some she ease and got rest of shed off. [emoji1]
Once again sorry if wrong area I just had to vent.

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Wow, that's awful. My husband recently picked up a bearded dragon with a really gnarly case of gout. Poor thing couldn't walk, she had to drag herself to her food. Her owners didn't know what to do with her and didn't feel like taking her to the vet, so they just left her in a small plastic transport case (this thing couldn't have been more than a foot long) in the corner of their living room, waiting for her to die. Who knows how long they had her in those conditions before they finally posted her on Craigslist because she was taking up space. She didn't have heat lights, UVB, anything. Some people just suck. If you can't keep your animal or take care of it, at the very least, surrender it to a rescue! Leaving it in a cold box (or in your case, outside!) to die is disgusting.

Anyways, thanks for taking in that ball! You're awesome. :)

Thanks everyone

I actually feel bad for the lady. I mean her son is old enough to take responsibility and rehome the snake before he went off to college.

I mean you have to look at it from the moms point of view. She probably knows absolutely nothing about the snake and has even less of an interest. Was it justified? No. But you can't expect too much from people.