A little while back I posted about a Ball Python and a Rosy Boa that a guy wasn't taking care of. When I took them in the Ball Python had layers of stuck shed on him, was thin, dehydrated, and just down right sad looking. They had been left in an unair conditioned building in one of the worst Texas summers in a long time. It took me 2 weeks to get all the stuck shed off this guy, with soaking and running through a towel, and feeding him on a schedule. The snakes looks great now. The Rosy faired better than the Ball at the building.

So today the guy tells me he wants them back. I told him I would be interested in buying the Ball Python from him, since it took so much work to get him healthy. The guy goes on to tell me that he doesn't believe that the snake was in bad shape. And that it was because I was misting the tank that there was mold in the tank. Never mind that the cedar bedding hadn't been changed in probably close to 6 months. I was not misting the tank or doing anything to the snakes and tanks while they were there at the building, up until the office manager informed me that the tanks were nasty. Than I went out and got some snake aspen and changed the bedding. That was when I saw how bad off the Ball was. Than this guy tells me that the snake wasn't thin because they can go months with out eating. And later this guy tells my father, who owns the building, that the snake was thin because I wasn't feeding it. I was the only one who would take food down for those snakes. No one asked me to feed them. He didn't arrange for me to feed them. I am so mad that this guy is blaming me for the condition his snakes were in. I have put out a decent amount of money and time to get these snakes looking better and in good setups. This guy is a friend of my father and when my father even told him that I was upset about this, and that the snake was in bad shape when it came to my house, my father was the one to bring them to my house, this guy told him that he was mad too because I caused this. Oh, I am so angery about this. I can do nothing but give him the 2 snakes back, but I am so mad that he is accusing me of this stuff, when if I hadn't taken these snakes in I don't think they would have made it through the summer. Sorry for the long vent.