or I should say New BAD Shipment.

The past two weeks we were buying what was left of a breeder who is getting out of ball python breeding.

We had a good deal for the remaining 9 ball pythons he had left.

This is what we were getting.
3.1 late 2005 50% possible het for VPI axanthic
0.2 normals, one of which is a proven breeder and dam to the others listed, this one weighing in at 2447 grams. The other at 900 grams.
1.1 High Yellow
0.1 aberrant patterned

When the package came in it was labeled only "Fragile", which usually means to package handlers that its ok to use this package for dunk shots.

The package was sent overnight. When we received the very smelly package we noticed there were no heat packs or packing material to hold the snakes into place. The big girls were in a snake bag in the middle of the package. On each side was a plastic shoe box with tiny holes only put on the lid. One shoe box had 4 axanthics, of which 2 were dead. The other shoe box had the remainder ball pythons.

These poor pythons were really blue and dazed and one was gasping for breath.





The two dead ones most likely froze to death and also by lack of oxygen.

We are warming up the survivors slowly and they seem to be settling in some. All I can think of was how careless this shipment was.