View Full Version : Good Bye Romeo!
tightsqueeze
01-15-03, 12:32 PM
I AM WRITING THIS IN MEMORY OF MY PASSED BALL PYTHON ROMEO . HE WAS A BEUTIFUL SNAKE BUT ON WEDNESDAY ,JANUARY 15,2003 AT 1:00 PM I FOUND ROMEO WRAPED AROUND HIS HEAT LIGHT ,HE OVERHEATED AND BURNED HIMSELF TO DEATH. THIS WAS MY FAULT FOR PUTING A HEAT LIGHT INSIDE HIS ENCLOSURE . IT IS BECAUSE OF MY STUPIDITY THAT HE IS GONE, IM SORRY BUDDY , I WILL MISS YOU !
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/850my_snakes0010-med.jpg
GOOD BYE MY FRIEND YOU WILL BE SORLY MISSED!
JAY
asphyxia
01-15-03, 01:33 PM
I am Sorry to hear that...What were you thinking?
Brian
tightsqueeze
01-15-03, 01:36 PM
OBVIOUSLY NOT THE RIGHT THING !
Alicewave
01-15-03, 01:37 PM
I was not going to reply but...why did you have a lamp *in* the tank? I'm really sorry about your loss but I think we'd all like to better understand what happened.
Hey people don't be too hard on him... I may have been a very stupid idea to put a lamp in the tank but I'm sure he didn't do it just to fry the bp.
Jay: I'm sorry to hear about your loss man... just be more careful next time.
Lizzy001
01-15-03, 01:46 PM
No1 knew it would happen therefor it was no ones fault....
sorry for ur loss.........gone but not forgotten!
Lizzy xxxxx
tightsqueeze
01-15-03, 01:49 PM
the lamp was screened of with steel mesh but i must have left a small gap in the mesh ...gimme a break people i didn't put this post up to be told how stupid i am ! ofcorse i didn't just put an exposed light in there i did block it off but loke i said i must have mist a spot and he got up in around the bulb that way ! i put this thread up to remember him not to be told off .....if you have nothing nice to say don't say anything ...im pretty torn up about this i don't need to come one here and read how stupid i am !
jay
tightsqueeze
01-15-03, 01:52 PM
Brian , Josefg , Lizzy
thanks for the kind words! its nice to know that people you don't even know still try to be sympathetic !
thanks again
jay
Alicewave
01-15-03, 01:58 PM
I was not trying to be hard on you at all. I was suprised because you have always seemed to know what you are doing. I totally understand that accidents happen. I just wanted to know what happened and now that you've explained it better, I really don't think it was your fault. We've all made mistakes and learned from them. Again, I'm really sorry to hear about your loss, it's tough losing an animal you love.
Clownfishie
01-15-03, 01:59 PM
I'm so sorry to hear about your loss :( May he RIP...
tightsqueeze
01-15-03, 02:00 PM
im sorry ALICEWAVE i am just really edgy right now , i shouldn't have flipped out like that i appologize!
jay
Alicewave
01-15-03, 02:01 PM
No worries! Hope things get better for you. *hugs*
tightsqueeze
01-15-03, 02:02 PM
JUST TO LET EVERYONE KNOW WHAT HE WAS
BANDED %50 HET FOR ALBINO FROM MARKUS JAYNE
I'm really sorry for your loss, I can't imagine how you must be feeling... I'd be a mess, so all my sympathies to you.
It's amazing though how stupid these animals can be! To wrap itself around a heat light to the point of burning itself to death. You'd think they'd have some kind of instinct mecanism telling them "it's too hot here, you're burning!". For animals that thermoregulate, you'd think they'd know when it's too hot. Weird.
tightsqueeze
01-15-03, 02:14 PM
i agree w/you Pixie
I am sorry about your loss..Don't worry about what the other people say about it being your fault..f.em..Sheite happens..I know how much of your time and care that you put into your snakes..you sometimes can never know what a snake can get into or out of...so chill and take it as an lesson learned....:w
sSNAKESs.com
01-15-03, 02:24 PM
Jay man, sorry to hear about your loss.... Dont be to hard on yourself man, mistakes happen and it could have happened to anyone.
Tim_Cranwill
01-15-03, 02:28 PM
Yeah, tough break man!
I'm truly sorry for your loss.:(
Sheite happens..I know how much time and care you put into your snakes..I know of many many people(including reptile stores)that put screened-off lights in enclosures. I do in some of my bigger enclosures, and never had a problem because the snakes are large, but they were not always as big as they are now...it's a dice roll sometimes..
tightsqueeze
01-15-03, 02:45 PM
thanks everyone for all your kind words!!
jay
Them and Us
01-15-03, 02:50 PM
yes I too feel for your loss. I don't know if it was stupidity was it? but maybe design flaw? It is my understanding that snakes' nerves are so deep into their skin that by the time they feel or would feel it they are already very badly burnt or dead? Am I wrong in this understanding?
Alicewave
01-15-03, 02:51 PM
I think I have heard that as well Them and US. That's why it's so important not to use Human heating pads on full blast.
XxRachxX
01-15-03, 04:30 PM
*******It's amazing though how stupid these animals can be! To wrap itself around a heat light to the point of burning itself to death.
*******
it might just be me but i find that comment offensive and disrespectful to the animal. it certanly didnt know what the heck a light bulb was and that it would kill it. probably got trapped ::shrugs:: but hey accidents happen! i have my lamp guards bolted to the top of the viv with 4 inch bolts :-) i know theyre not gonna get into there! sorry to hear about it though. i hate it when pets die even more so when its the pretty ones ::sigh:: better luck in the future! 4 inch bolts are the way to go mate!
*Spike*
01-15-03, 09:41 PM
hey babe
it true you shouldn't be so hard on your self . and it wasn't your fault i was there when you put the light on and there weas no possible way romeo could have gotten in there i still haven't figure out how he did yet like you said you had told me earier you couldn't tell where he had got in..
Yes Romeo was beautiful and he was also a great snake, pet , friend, whatever anyone wants to call it ,to me it was a greatr friend , snake pet . he was a great everything and he is still loved even thought he may not be w/ us any \more jay and still a\will always love him.
Jay please dont be so hard on yourself it wasn't your fault or mine .Things happen good or bad...
"Romeo you'll be loved and not fogetten, Someday you, jay and i will all meet in another life som how take care my friend "
i'll miss you
Kelly
tightsqueeze
01-15-03, 09:46 PM
thanks babe i love you !
ttyl babe
bye
jay
Originally posted by Pixie
It's amazing though how stupid these animals can be! To wrap itself around a heat light to the point of burning itself to death. You'd think they'd have some kind of instinct mecanism telling them "it's too hot here, you're burning!". For animals that thermoregulate, you'd think they'd know when it's too hot. Weird.
There is nothing stupid about them. Their nerve sensors are buried much deeper than ours are, and by the time they feel themselves getting burned, its too late :(
XxRachxX: I'm sorry to have offended you with my comment, but it was definetely not my intention just a statement. How you associate it with disrespect, I don't know. The one thing I have the most respect for are animals especially snakes, I wouldn't own some if I didn't.
I said what I said because I really can't understand how an animal that thermoregulates can burn itself to death. To survive they have to constantly move to different areas to achieve to correct temperature needed at the time. This doesn't happen haphazardly when it's cold or need warmth for whatever reason it seeks it just like when it's too warm and needs to cool down it seeks a cooler area. Snakes are extremely effective at detecting temperature gradients and fluctuations, they almost see in "heat vision". So that's where I wonder. How or more WHY would a snake wrap itself a heat bulb and remain there till it died. It's not like it can't tell that the bulb is emitting heat and at some point the snake has to start feeling too warm and needs to get to a cool area. If the snake was found in the lamp's screened box and not around the bulb I could see it being trapped and not being able to get out. So, why does something like this happen? In MY opinion snakes are just not too bright. They sure don't have big brains and they live almost solely on instinct.
So I think snakes are stupid, I still love em and respect them and always will. And I still can't live without the dumb buggers.
Pixie
im sorry for your loss. we have all done things that we look back on and go "i was so stupid" but there was no fault in it. sometimes things happen that we dont understand when we look back. take it as a lesson learned the hard way. and thanks for sharing so no one else makes the same slip.
*hugs*
*Spike*
01-16-03, 01:22 AM
well pixie yeah i agree w/ you on the hot and cold thing but the thing was with the heat light it was on a temperture gage it would go to the temp it needed then it would turn off once it was at the temp needed and then it would come back on when is cooled down just to keep the temp the same all the time .....
well romeo rest in peice and you'll never be forgotten ..
he was a beautiful and well loved snake....
loven you always romeo
Kelly
(P.S. if you are wondering who i am i am jays girlfriend(soon to be wife) ;) so know you know ....)
nouserpif
01-16-03, 02:05 AM
I had a kitty named romeo who got hit by a car last september... he was one year old on that day, too. Don't ask me how he managed to get outside, he was an inside cat... anyway, sorry about your bp!
Dan conner
tightsqueeze
01-16-03, 06:59 AM
well i said this a couple times already but i have to keep saying it "thank you everyone for all your kind words and careing enough to post your feelings on this situation , it does mean alot to me to know i am not alone one this .
alot of people ask me how i can love snakes as much as i do , and i always say to them "how can you love dogs ? i love my snakes and all snakes like 99% of this world love dogs and cats"
but i thank you for all your comments poeple .. it is clear to me now why i have this site as my home page and come on it about 15 times a day !
thanks everyone again
yours truley
jay
Pythonian
01-16-03, 07:28 AM
I pm'ed to you what i wanted to say Jay: and also a little off the subject but ssnakess.com is my home page as well haha. i'm glad to see i'm not the only one ;)
Mike
Jay, I'm deeply sorry for your loss.
*Spike*
01-16-03, 08:10 PM
Yeah thanx everyone for the surport it's easy to not think bout romeo , but he's probably in a happier place (just like when people die there in a happier place)
thank you for your respect and caring kind words .....
thank you once angain .....
Thanx
Sincerely
Kelly
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