Warning to new owners.

[snakesRkewl]

Second, and I hate to say it but its true, if you used proper punctuation and grammer then you would come across as being more educated and maybe people would take you more seriously. That is not me criticizing, it is me trying to offer some help to you on your future posts.

You just have to love it when the grammar police can't even write a proper sentence when they are criticizing the OP's grammar and punctuation, makes for a good laugh

gsarchie
In an industry like there where bad advice runs rampant (i.e. ignorant pet store employees, someone saying "hey my friend had snakes. they need blah blah blah, etc.)

I'd like to see the necropsy also. I've always been against aerosols being used around the snakes, and find the claim slightly plausible, but some evidence of the claim would be nice.

[gsarchie]

Hehe. I was just trying to be funny. I am guilty of letting calgon take me away and glitter body spray on occassion myself. My faves all come in glass bottles tho :p jp

I have been accused of taking people too seriously in the past. Anyway, don't young women these days like a guy that smells nice? At least it's not Old Spice! My closest neighbor in our tent always puts that crap on. He's only 31 so I give him a pretty hard time about it. LOL

You just have to love it when the grammar police can't even write a proper sentence when they are criticizing the OP's grammar and punctuation, makes for a good laugh

I wasn't policing, I was sincerely trying to be helpful. In no way have I implied in any posts that I am free from making grammatical errors.

[Vasiliki]

When I used to breed Lovebirds, aerosols became a 'banned' thing in our house. Given that their respiratory systems were so delicate, certain off-gasing was actually instantly toxic to them. Such as leaving a hot pot on the stove that had a Teflon coating. If the Teflon coating reached a certain heat point with no food or water contact (just a hot pot left unattended), the teflon would off-gas and any birds that inhaled that gas would drop dead within just a few moments. This never happened to us, but it happened numerous times across the country, enough to cause it to be widely known amongst bird owners.

Same went for certain chemicals and sprays.

Why do I bring up birds? Well, snakes also have delicate respiratory systems as well. I'm not sure if spraying an obscene amount of deoderant would cause instant death, but I can imagine that it would be something that you wouldn't want to use directly around your snake. I can't say one way or another that this is definitely true or definitely false. However, having seen how sick animals with delicate systems can get from seemingly 'common' household items, I'll say it's Plausible. But, it is also Plausible that the snake was exposed to chemcials prior to pick-up, or indirectly exposed to another sickness, or had a RI at the time of being exposed to a chemical and was unable to remain stable.

There are a massive amount of variables here.

I appreciate you coming around and mentioning something on the topic. It's not 100% one way or another, but some people might not know better. Myself, I don't use any chemicals around my animals and never have. If I need to clean their room with something more than safe cleaning ingredients, they get temporarily moved to another room.

Also: If your friend is spraying himself with 20+ seconds with deoderant, just how smelly is he? Maybe the snake died of a different kind of 'smell'

[Otolith]

I have been accused of taking people too seriously in the past. Anyway, don't young women these days like a guy that smells nice? At least it's not Old Spice! My closest neighbor in our tent always puts that crap on. He's only 31 so I give him a pretty hard time about it. LOL

It's ok my sense of humor is dry and deadpan when speaking so via text it easily gets lost and comes off more snarkville. I like a guy in Armani code or Kenneth cole rxn or just scent of working on something around the house. Wd40 and dirt smells of a sexy honey do list haha.
Old spice is alright in an antiquated sort if way if only bc I like to imagine Bruce Campbell actually wears it. Sharing it with everyone in the a tent is a bit sadistic. Lol.


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[mackynz]

I have never had an issue...

I suppose with small room with no ventilation and a lot of spray could do it. But if your friend is using this much deodorant he will probably be dying an early death as well....

But a necropsy report would be what I need to see to be swayed.

[John1982]

Thanks for the warning OP, I'd love to see the necropsy as well to further my understanding.

[twoninerfan]

I would like to see the necropsy report too. It could be a number of things but if there really is a danger to using spray on deodorants around our snakes then that is something we should all know about. Books and guides could be written on that subject. Hopefully that is not the reason for the snake's death because I know I personally would feel terrible if I put Axe on one night and found out that was the reason my snake died. Hope it was not his fault and that it was something the snake had picked up before he got him. Thank you for the warning I believe you were trying to doing the right thing. Sorry about the loss.

[liv]

OP, I'm wondering if you could ask your friend to make an account on here and post his story and the report. I would definitely like to confirm your hypothesis via necropsy, as I use body spray, albeit small amounts, daily.

[Snakeman]

idk about the rest of you but im curious as to where/how he got a necropsy for his snake. a vet?