Not sure which forum to put this in...
For those who may not know, my partner and I may have to make an emergency move to Seattle (Bonney Lake) at the end of September due to having no jobs and no money past that month. My father and step-mother have graciously offered to take us in and help us find jobs and an apartment.
The problem: We learned that the drive up in a Penske truck will take 3-4 days! My BTS can handle that...but I don't think the snakes could! We have only a little over $1200 for the move costs AND a few months in WA, so we can't afford to have a truck co. move our things or anything like that.
I am sending out an SOS - I need help figuring this out! Is there a way to take the snakes on a 3-4 day trip in a moving truck? If not, I will need someone to take the snakes for me for a while. Either someone here in Denver who could keep them in tubs then ship them up to us once we're settled (we would pay of course), or someone up in the Seattle area who could receive them and their cages and foster them for a while until we get a place. Even then, we may not be able to handle all the costs.
It is not fully known that we will have to be moving yet. The deadline for that is Sept. 12th. I have to give the 30 day notice for our apartment on Sept 1st, but we could still keep our apartment if we heard something before the 12th. However, I have to start making plans and figuring things out now just in case we DO have to leave.
This is a huge mess that has me on the verge of breaking down. I don't know how to do any of this, and I don't know if we can afford any of it either. I'm scared and really need some help.
Any advice or help in this matter would be eternally appreciated! We're running out of time and money...and sanity.
Oh, and just for the record - the snakes are 4 young Ball Pythons and 4 corns. The corns cage system would have to come up to WA with us and couldn't be shipped, but the BPs are in a rack w/ 2 tubs and tanks while their cages are being built. The rack and extra tubs could be handed over for the BPs to stay in, and I may have tubs for the corns but I'm not sure. They would come with their thermostats and UTHs and hides and such, of course.