Beware of the snake man

[bcr229]

Well before I ever had a snake I'd get bored at work and hop on Craigslist. I'd post a picture of a Burmese and tell everyone that "Shadow" was once fed kittens by the previous owner and will not take anything else. I'd ask in the pet section for anyone with a steady supply of baby white kittens (Shadow prefers white).

It was a fun experiment. I got a lot of emails from people telling me how much they laughed at the obvious tongue-in-cheek post and a few telling me they were reporting me to the cops and all of that. I kept it up for about a month, I laughed at the responses.

One lady wrote me a nasty gram saying she cried for a day after reading my post and that she had reported me to the FBI or something.

I found it hysterical.

Gee thanks. I'm currently dealing with a very ignorant/uninformed witch-with-a-B spouting off on all my ball python sale threads on the local FB classified pet forums about evil snake owners taking the FTGH kittens as food for their snakes. Of course she can't point to a single instance that she knows of or name anyone doing it, but since she read it on the Internet it must be true.

[jclaiborne]

Well before I ever had a snake I'd get bored at work and hop on Craigslist. I'd post a picture of a Burmese and tell everyone that "Shadow" was once fed kittens by the previous owner and will not take anything else. I'd ask in the pet section for anyone with a steady supply of baby white kittens (Shadow prefers white).

It was a fun experiment. I got a lot of emails from people telling me how much they laughed at the obvious tongue-in-cheek post and a few telling me they were reporting me to the cops and all of that. I kept it up for about a month, I laughed at the responses.

One lady wrote me a nasty gram saying she cried for a day after reading my post and that she had reported me to the FBI or something.

I found it hysterical.

There really is no other way to put this than it just seems ignorant and unnecessary.

[anicatgirl]

Well before I ever had a snake I'd get bored at work and hop on Craigslist. I'd post a picture of a Burmese and tell everyone that "Shadow" was once fed kittens by the previous owner and will not take anything else. I'd ask in the pet section for anyone with a steady supply of baby white kittens (Shadow prefers white).

It was a fun experiment. I got a lot of emails from people telling me how much they laughed at the obvious tongue-in-cheek post and a few telling me they were reporting me to the cops and all of that. I kept it up for about a month, I laughed at the responses.

One lady wrote me a nasty gram saying she cried for a day after reading my post and that she had reported me to the FBI or something.

I found it hysterical.

Excuse me...? We have a hard enough time with people thinking our snakes are a danger to society without help! I would have reported you too, if only to make a point that you shouldn't be going around saying stuff like that. If there is a shadow of a doubt that it will come across as satire, nix it...

[tbowman]

Well before I ever had a snake I'd get bored at work and hop on Craigslist. I'd post a picture of a Burmese and tell everyone that "Shadow" was once fed kittens by the previous owner and will not take anything else. I'd ask in the pet section for anyone with a steady supply of baby white kittens (Shadow prefers white).

It was a fun experiment. I got a lot of emails from people telling me how much they laughed at the obvious tongue-in-cheek post and a few telling me they were reporting me to the cops and all of that. I kept it up for about a month, I laughed at the responses.

One lady wrote me a nasty gram saying she cried for a day after reading my post and that she had reported me to the FBI or something.

I found it hysterical.

You must be very good at perpetuating stereotypes.

[Boomerang]

For fun, i went on Craigslist and posted something just for laughs in the pet section and got everything from "snakes are vile...blah blah blah" to "I hope you die a painful death soon..".


For the record I don't even have a Burmese

NEEDED ASAP: Bushel or so of young white kittens.








OK I got a couple nasty-grams from posting this previously. Someone wants me dead and someone for some reason thinks some kind of "karma" will come from this.

Lame and un-professional. I'm just a woman with a large snake that needs to eat!

And for the lady telling me how she "feels" snakes to be vile, disgusting and so on - we maybe you should look at your own diet before judging. Hypocrite!


Hello friends!
I have a very healthy Burmese Python "Shadow" who had escaped from his previous owners tank and ate his cat's entire litter of kittens.
Well the unfortunate part is that Shadow will now only feed on white kittens. She refuses to take anything else.

My current kitten supplier has run out and I am now in search of a more stable supply or short term supply of about a bushel of them. She is a voracious kitten eater so she will take many in one feeding, then be good for about 3 weeks.

Please shoot me an email with details. Shadow is hungry and she get's a little agitated when she is.

Attached are pictures of Shadow and the perfect size kittens

Thanks and God Bless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Boomerang]

You must be very good at perpetuating stereotypes.

More like I love to make crazy people crazier. If I have to put up with their garbage they can put up with some of my fun,.
Any sane person could tell this is a BS post and I did get a few emails back saying they had a good laugh at it.

One lady said she reported me to the cops and animal control lol

Another said she cried for a day after reading my post.

[Boomerang]

There really is no other way to put this than it just seems ignorant and unnecessary.

Right on!

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I don't find that funny at all. And is no way going to help the reptile community. That dose noting but hurt our case as reptile keepers

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it really doesn't matter at all, people will hold onto their beliefs often times no matter how well you educate them.

[tbowman]

it really doesn't matter at all, people will hold onto their beliefs often times no matter how well you educate them.

False.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

More like I love to make crazy people crazier. If I have to put up with their garbage they can put up with some of my fun,.
Any sane person could tell this is a BS post and I did get a few emails back saying they had a good laugh at it.

One lady said she reported me to the cops and animal control lol

Another said she cried for a day after reading my post.

Must be nice to live in your own little world and not care about how YOUR actions reflect on other snake keepers.

This hobby does not need people like you...............GROW UP, stop acting like you are 12, your stupid immature little posts on CL and here are NOT FUNNY and do not help snake keepers, they just give more ammunition to those trying to take our rights away.

[Boomerang]

LOL ok thanks for the advise. Kind of immature of you, but hey. I'm the one having fun.