shipping my snake

[burmese maniac]

Does anyone know on what I need to do to ship my snake from montreal to calgary and how much it might cost? thanxs too all

[taz19772005]

all you need is a box with some starafome to line the sides and the bottom and the top and a gel heat pack and then you need the weight of the box with the snake in it and call westjet and they will tell you how much.it should be around $70.and you need to put the snake in a countainer and fill the rest of the box with paper.

[MAN OF STEEL]

i have heard about using ice packs before. what the hell is the point of making them cold?
is there different places they are storing them on a plane or what?

[taz19772005]

you get hot/cold gel packs not ice packs

[MAN OF STEEL]

what is the difference between the two and the uses? do you ask the shipping comany what temperature they will be at? all shipping is overnight, correct?

[taz19772005]

yes all shipping is sameday.with thi hot/cold packs they keep the heat longer

[MAN OF STEEL]

are those the ones you can freeze or put in boiling water/ microwave?
what temp should the hot/cold packs be?

[taz19772005]

yes they are.i heat them two times with boiling water

[MAN OF STEEL]

can you give me the exact steps you do or what is safe to do?
i will be shipping two hypo het anery boas to oregon from socal. thanks for your help!

[taz19772005]

you get a box and line it with strafome and you put the baby snakes in cups with lids and if they are adults then you put them in pellow cases and you put them on one side and put a drvider in the middel and put the heat packs on the other side.then fill the rest of the bow with crumpled paper so the snke and the heat packs do not move and the snakes have more safety

[MAN OF STEEL]

Thanks for the help!

[wcreptiles]

Overview of shipping reptiles, including hot and cold packs:

http://www.arbreptiles.com/shipping/index.shtml

[infernalis]

I opened this one back up, it is breeding season and shipping snakes is part of life right now.

Personally I use fed ex priority overnight with early AM delivery.

Always demand a signature, last year a friend of mine shipped a snake and it got left on the wrong door step, the snake was never seen again.

[mykee]

Only way to ship reptiles across Canada is by plane.
Puro, Fed-Ex, Canpar, UPS; all illegal up here.

[infernalis]

Only way to ship reptiles across Canada is by plane.
Puro, Fed-Ex, Canpar, UPS; all illegal up here.

Thanks for that, I am still learning about Canadian laws.