i have to watch my snakes starve as punishment

[PitOnTheProwl]

I love some of the idiotic responses.......

Your parents house, your PARENTS rules.
Be glad you still have them because I would have given away all of them had you been in my house.

You broke the rules. Either rehome them or grow up and get out.
Does it hurt to hear the truth?
Bet it hurt to break the trust too.

[Rob]

I love some of the idiotic responses.......:

Kids these days man. Zero respect for parents or authority. The comments telling the op should get their parents in trouble are beyond ridiculous. Here's an idea, listen to your parents. You can do what you want when you have your own place and pay your own bills. You are lucky enough that your parents allow you to keep any snakes at all, but the OP chooses to take advantage of that and go behind their back and get another. OP you are not he victim here, my advice would be to rehome the new snake you didn't have permission to get and apologize to your parents and regain their trust. Being up front and honest with them might actually make them consider allowing you to get another snake in the future.

[bcr229]

Kids these days man. Zero respect for parents or authority. The comments telling the op should get their parents in trouble are beyond ridiculous. Here's an idea, listen to your parents. You can do what you want when you have your own place and pay your own bills. You are lucky enough that your parents allow you to keep any snakes at all, but the OP chooses to take advantage of that and go behind their back and get another. OP you are not he victim here, my advice would be to rehome the new snake you didn't have permission to get and apologize to your parents and regain their trust. Being up front and honest with them might actually make them consider allowing you to get another snake in the future.

Kids do stupid things and push boundaries, which is why they are kids. Punishing the child for the screw-up by starving his pets to death is way over the top though.

If you need to re-home these guys quickly there is a reptile rescue in your area that might be able to help, I'd suggest you contact them.
http://www.reptilerescueoc.org/

[Rob]

Kids do stupid things and push boundaries, which is why they are kids. Punishing the child for the screw-up by starving his pets to death is way over the top though.
http://www.reptilerescueoc.org/

Agreed kids do dumb things, they also have to be held accountable and learn from those mistakes. I don't believe the parents said he couldn't feed them, he would just have to take the walk to the pet store himself.
Nice long walk to get the rodents sounds like plenty of time to think about going behind his parents back again. Sounds like a good lesson learned.

Also I'll assume the parents know snakes don't need to eat everyday. Idk how much time has passed. But there's probably a chance they are making the OP sweat it out before brining him to get the rodents, knowing snakes can go without food just fine for a while.

[Gio]

I love some of the idiotic responses.......

Your parents house, your PARENTS rules.
Be glad you still have them because I would have given away all of them had you been in my house.

You broke the rules. Either rehome them or grow up and get out.
Does it hurt to hear the truth?
Bet it hurt to break the trust too.

Agreed!

Remember the "HOW OLD ARE YOU?" Thread???

Here is a perfect example of what you PitOnTheProwl were talking about when you stated the thread tells a lot about some folks.

Classic immaturity issue here. This does NOT apply to all younger folks. Many of you show responsibility and respect for rules. There are some wonderful young keepers out there and I say more power to you if you enjoy the hobby responsibly.

Somehow reptiles don't seem to fall under the same rules other pets do.

People tend to collect and over collect them. People who are not established, and in this case if it's not a troll thread, irresponsible tend to just get what THEY WANT and think very little about the long term.


IF you are a healthy person you damn well better walk that 6 miles and get the food. Or online order some.

If you are limited or have health issues that is different, but I'll bet you have a friend that could go, or take the bus.

At this point you appear to be one of the keepers that should not own a pet of any kind.

This is strike one.

I'll venture to guess this is not the end of this behavior.

[wolfy-hound]

If you could get to a place to buy a new snake, you can get to a place to buy the food.

Being overdramatic and wailing about how your parents are "starving" your pets to death when it's been a week(see first post) is just attention grabbing and all the people responding as if there's no way these poor starving pets will ever get any food unless the parents go get it, when the OP has already demonstrated the ability to get a live snake to his house without their help don't help at all.

There have been MANY helpful posts here. You can walk or take a bus to the pet store. You can ASK your parents to pick up the food for them, with you paying. You could check for sources that may deliver to your house for an extra fee. You could order frozen feeders after asking your parents if it's okay to store them in a freezer. You could ask a friend to help you get food. You could ask a friend with a secondary freezer(like some folks keep in the garage) to keep your frozen rodents. You could rehome or return the snakes so they don't actually miss many meals.

But YOUR idea is to "watch them die slowly" because you don't want to give them up or presumably arrange for other ways to get their food. I see your recent post about how you will be walking to the store(as if it's a trip to Mordor), but your first post about watching them starve versus rehomeing them tells a lot more about what you think about your pets.

[JodanOrNoDan]

Maybe I missed something vital to the conversation, however I can quickly see who the adults are here. My animals are very well cared for, however my family comes first. Anyone giving the ?troll? the advice to rat out his/her parents to any authorities over a snake is very confused themselves and should not be giving advice to anyone. Legal problems can lead to the loss of jobs, income whatever. There could be other kids involved. The parents may just be teaching the kid a lesson. You do not bite the hand that feeds you. No one here knows the whole story. The ones here saying to re-home the animals are correct. This person is not responsible enough to be taking care of anything. To post this problem on a public forum in the first place was just plain wrong and shows a very high level of immaturity and or emotional issues that should be addressed by people qualified to do so.

[Jon14]

Kids these days man. Zero respect for parents or authority.

I agree, but I do not believe kids should take all of the blame for this. Many parents let their children get away with almost anything now since it is too much work to punish them. Also, the restrictions on discipline in not helping the issue either.

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[Kokorobosoi]

Back in the day.......


mm oh all the ways I want to be end that sentence....


I can't even..... I hope you come home from school and find out your parents rehomed the animals because the lack of responsibility and common sense is astonishing.

[butterballpython]

Near as we can tell, the OP is a minor who has apparently given us his first and last name as well as his city and state. Anybody and everybody in addition to members can access this thread, and I'm guessing his parents aren't aware of this thread, either. In the interests of his security and due to the possibility that his parents might see it and all heck break loose, I'd like to suggest that a mod delete, modify, or close this thread. I'm new here and not sure of the rules, but I don't have a good feeling about keeping this open. This is just my opinion.

Thanks.