Carpet handling

[Sauzo]

Realy? Really Sauzo?

I've always respected your posts and felt almost all noteworthy, except some of your Carpet posts, especially THIS one. You have 4 months experience with a Carpet and you make a blanket statement like this? Wow! That's not you brother, you know better.

I probably have as much or more experience with Retics than the the time you have had yours. I used to hang out with a Breeder and ALOT of his were terrors. Have you ever heard me say a negative thing about Retics? You have encouraged some folks to get a Retic on some threads. I think that is great. You point out a lot of positive things. Have I ever piped in with negative views? No, because I realize that my experience is very limited and a very small snapshot of those Retic's personalities.

I'm truly sorry your Jungle didn't work out for you and you didn't stick it out. I really believe Alli's personality would have mellowed. But if it wasn't a good match I understand that. I hold nothing against you for getting rid of her. Maybe you feel you've earned the right to make such statements with the blood and sweat you put into Alli, but I don't.

I'll stop here, because there is nothing personal going on here, I feel that you are a friend with a great sum of snake knowledge and experience. I just can't let this one go. I guess because I have always had a high opinion of your posts you just let me down this time and I am disappointed.

I'm not trying to be negative. I'm giving my experience from the one I had as well as what I've been told by people I talked to about carpets. I told him, if I was to get a carpet, it would be a Bredli or Inland as I was told those are going to be your best luck at getting a snake that is going to tolerate a fair amount of handling. I was told that Jungles are probably the most nippy out of all the carpets.

That's why I also told him to find out the temperament of the carpet he wants as we all know not all snakes are the same personality even if the species is said to be calm or otherwise.

And if you have a negative experience with a certain species, you should speak up when someone asks so as to give the person a full spectrum of what to possibly expect and what you have learned so you can pass it on to him.

Sorry if I let you down but I was giving him my experience with what I had and letting him know what I was told by other guys who have had carpets for long long time. Like I said, he can learn from my mistakes plus learn from people who have had good experiences with carpets. I never said anything anything negative about them except that I feel they are more of a display animal than something like a boa which you can throw over your shoulders and go outside and do yard work with and for the most part, they are going to be fine with it. And even my label of 'display animal' isn't a negative.

And finally at the end I did say I would like to get another carpet but I would probably make it a Bredli or Inland as like I said, I was told those are known more for being mellow although I'm sure the babies will be nippy but like I was told, most outgrow it within a year but again some don't. That is how I felt Allie was. Either she wouldn't outgrow it or possibly the person that had her before me might have done something to her to scar her psychologically.

Oh and also, it took 4 months to get Allie to where she would only bite me 50% of the time from about 2' away. The minute you opened the cage, she was in defensive mode in a tight 'S' ready to strike. She never really got out of that habit even after 4 months and she was well over a year old so unless she was a late bloomer, she should have been out of the hatchling/yearling nippy mode. Don't get me wrong, I really did like her, she was awesome looking but after 4 months of not knowing if you were going to get bit or not every time you opened the cage to even change water, it got old. I mean I'm assuming all your carpets including your jungle were fairly mellow when you got them or at most, they would just draw back in defense if you moved a little too fast in front of them?

Anyways, I'm not taking it personal. Everyone is entitled to post their view. That is the whole reason for these boards and discussions.