This sucks guys

[Bogertophis]

...But I have a feeling the spunkiness was a big stress signal. I know BPs can be shy. But he was very snappy at first and hissed alot. Which is fine. But I noticed over time he stopped all that cuz it didn't work and he would try and hide as good as he can...
My thoughts are that he may have had congenital issues (maybe) and the move ended up being way too stressful for him and something ended up giving away in this poor little dude....

That "spunkiness" may have been internal pain instead, or, the stress of everything may have predisposed him to pick up something contagious at the show, & because he wasn't eating & was the smallest (perhaps weaker?), may not have been able to fight it off. You'll never know, but just that it "happens" sometimes.

Many more snakes survive in captivity than they do in the wild- nature makes shorter work of those with inherent weaknesses, whereas in captivity, the optimal conditions we provide them helps some survive that otherwise would not have. I don't think this breeder was to blame either- not every thing is in the control of the breeder. I'm really glad you're moving forward with another one. Things in life do go wrong sometimes- all we can do is the best we can- it doesn't seem there were any "mistakes" here to learn from- just bad luck. Wishing you MUCH better luck going forward.

[JJpeep]

That "spunkiness" may have been internal pain instead, or, the stress of everything may have predisposed him to pick up something contagious at the show, & because he wasn't eating & was the smallest (perhaps weaker?), may not have been able to fight it off. You'll never know, but just that it "happens" sometimes.

Many more snakes survive in captivity than they do in the wild- nature makes shorter work of those with inherent weaknesses, whereas in captivity, the optimal conditions we provide them helps some survive that otherwise would not have. I don't think this breeder was to blame either- not every thing is in the control of the breeder. I'm really glad you're moving forward with another one. Things in life do go wrong sometimes- all we can do is the best we can- it doesn't seem there were any "mistakes" here to learn from- just bad luck. Wishing you MUCH better luck going forward.

Thanks again for helping me along in another unfortunate event. I actually tend to agree with you. The more I think about it. The more I believe him being so defensive had some sort of a sign something was wrong attached to it. I don't believe the breeder knew at all something was wrong. I don't blame him one bit. I actually find him very gracious. I talked to him yesterday and he felt that sending another snake was warranted, because he early gets people having one of his snakes die on him. So he believes there was something congenital too that just got passed everyone.

[JJpeep]

The new male pin pied het albino arrived at 10:20 on the dot. He is very pretty and looks good. Nice and chubby and healthy looking. I plan on taking pictures of him. But I want to have him settle in his new surroundings and have him eat a meal before any pictures are taken this time. Maybe I will snap a candid one when I am giving him fresh water. But no fancy photoshoot just yet😉

[JJpeep]

I just remembered that I never shared a photo of the replacement pied that the breeder graciously offered me. Here he is.