A Horrible Story, but all too common!

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About a month ago, I was at my favorite local watering hole when I spotted a guy with a bp around his neck. Drinkin and smokin with absolutely no thought to how the ball was liking all this. Initially, I was quite disturbed by this, but I figured I would go talk to him anyway. When I got closer I saw that this was a beautiful snake and it was in shed! (what a moron)

But anyway. After talking to him for a bit I found out that it was his birthday and he had just recieved this snake as a gift. I also found out that what he had was a 10gal aquarium and a heat rock for him. So I did my best to educate him and let him know that having a bp in a bar was sort of a bad idea and he should think twice about bringing him in again. He agreed and seemed really interested in all the things I had to say.


I directed him here and to other sites I know have good care sheets so that he could hopefully start giving this ball the care it needs. Unfortunately, this story doesn't have the happy ending I had hoped for though. I found out the other night through the grape vine that the guy and his girlfriend got in a drunkin brawl and he ended up throwing the bp against the wall and killing it.

I am so angry, I just don't know what to say!! So I figured I would come in here and vent a bit. It's so disgusting. These creatures don't ask anything of us. We bring them into our homes be cause we have a love for them, an understanding of how incredible they are. We love them with every part of us and then someone like this goes to a pet store and gets himself a python to be cool. It's just so frustrating! It just doesn't make sense to me.

Well, anyway, thanks for letting me vent. And thanks for taking the time to read this.