Going away to college...what do I do with my snake???

I'm leaving for college in like 4 days and i have been trying forever to find someone i know to take my BP while im gone but no luck...I really don't know what to do with it cuz my parents WILL NOT take care of it....im really running out of time :confused:

Put it up for adoption in our For Sale/Trade/Adoption or Wanted forum. ;)

Put it under your bed in your dorm room and hope you dont get caught. I have done it.

Trey

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Originally Posted by mxrider42

Put it under your bed in your dorm room and hope you dont get caught. I have done it.

Trey

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MXrider42 has a good idea, but I'd check out what the rules are and how strict people patrol the dorms are. There aren't really any rules regarding pets at my college, security doesn't really patrol and there aren't any RAs to snitch out students.

Where do you live? If you want, I'm in Poughkeepsie NY, and I could hold it for a while until you see what the conditions are like at your school. I'm sure that asking people to board your pythons might be a great alternative to adopting them out.

I keep my snake well hidden in my on-campus apartment. However, I have my own bedroom/bathroom...and the girl I share the apartment with (she has her own bedroom/bathroom as well) never has to know about/see Auryn unless I 100% trust her. Last year I had a suitemate who was okay with him, this year my suitemate isn't going to know about Auryn at all unless I think she's trustworthy--and even then it's iffy.

We're not supposed to have pets on my campus--and I'm sure your campus is the same. Unless you're 100% positive that your roommate isn't going to freak out/turn you in for having a snake on campus, I wouldn't risk bringing him with you. It will be MUCH harder to hide him under your bed and keep his existence a secret when you're sharing a bedroom with someone.

I would try placing him in the adoption/sale/trade forum and see if there's a BP.net member near you who could take him for you.

Good luck! :hug:

basically, will you be living on campus or in your own apartment? check and see if the apartment allows reptiles. if so, id go the honest route. however, we had no such luck. the place tony lives at allows pets, but does not mention reptiles. so basically we have the snakes set up safely in the closet. the management does not 'check' the apartment unless you have some sort of flooding plumbing or other type problem that interfers with your day to day living. we have our guys set up so that unless you're the really really nosey type you wont know they're there.

if you really don't want to keep your snake at college, i wouldn't purchase anymore animals until you were in a place where you were not likely to move again for a long time, and i mean after school is done.

I live in NJ, where in NJ do you live?

Im in a tripled dorm...its a room meant for 2 people but at this point theres 3 of us in it...i live in river edge, nj...its near paramus, hackensack, etc......i dont want to put it in the adoption section cuz i dont wanna give it away...i wanna have this snake for MANY years to come...i wanted to have someone take care of it while i was at college and i could always take it back....

This might sound like an attempt to insult you but trust me, I feel for you. This is the precise reason I am not going to get a snake until after I have finished university and have a place of my own. Hope you manage to find a temporary home for him, I'd have recommended sorting this out much sooner though.

dude, that sucks.. i can't imagine being separated from my babies.. even when i'm with friends, i either have my snakes with me, or i miss them, depending on feeding and shed schedule of course ;). I'm so happy i pay the extra gas to commute to school!

You may be able to find someone willing to do that... Which you could probably still accomplish by posting in the wanted section... But you need to figure out if you're going to be able to pay for his care while you're away. The person who would be taking your snake would be responsible for the electric bill, his food, and his care, so you I hope you'll be able to reimburse them somehow.

This is why I'm really glad my parents love my snakes (most of them were my dad's idea). I have to leave them home while I'm at college, but having a four month long summer break is a nice chunk of time to be with them...

If you can't find it a home before you get to college you could try to hide it, but if it's against the rules to have and you think there is a good likelihood of getting caught then keep trying, I'm sure you could work something out. Keeping the snake in a tub set up will make it less obvious, and something you could hide under your bed or in a closet.

My boyfriend is allowed to have snakes at his apartment, so he watches one of my bps. I get to see her via webcam :D

Good luck!

And let this be a reminder to teenagers who want snakes but don't have willing parents... when college comes... have a plan!

If you were not so far away I would offer to hold it for you, but thats a long way away.

Have you tried asking any of your friends that are either A) Not going to college B) Already done with school or C) Be able to keep it at college with them ?

i would just see if you cant get your roommates to let you keep him there. under the bed perhaps? just mention it to them if you can.

i mean. it is "just" a ball python.

i dunno. personally i'd ditch the dorm and get an apartment >D i could never let my snakes go.

Same here shhhli. I could never let my babies go. For just that reason, my fiance and I are getting an apartment together soon so we can have all our babies in the same place. We are both going to college and do not live in a dorm. (Dorms are nice but they don't allow pets.) When I was going to college in southwestern VA, our dorms only allowed small fish bowls/tanks. I had a small tank with two anoles and technically, that was against the rules, but my RA said she wouldn't say anything as long as they didn't get loose. Though a snake probably would have been different.

right now I'm in Bergen county, but I'm going back to boston at the end of the week, so even though I'm close I can't really help you.

hey man i am/was in the same position you're in...i live in jersey and go to school in boston and they're strict about pets, you can't have anything that doesn't swim and doesn't fit in a 10 gallon tank...however RA's don't usually make that many rounds and u usually know before hand so whenever that happened i just hid it under my desk...they literally just walk in and out and that's it...i had my tank out all the time it was fine just keep the door closed...RA's usually knock before hand.