What are your pet peeves?

Will0W783 · 01-25-11, 09:31 AM

I had to vent on this situation..it has me steaming mad. A while back I met a couple who claims that they've been keeping snakes for years. They were interested in a pair of Savu pythons I had made an offer on and was waiting for confirmation. I ended up getting the Savus, and promised the couple I'd keep in touch and sell them babies, since they talked about how much experience they had with snakes. Well, since then we've been in touch and they have done some stuff which just flabbergasts me. They had a GTP die of neurological symptoms and mouth rot about a month ago (symptoms of BOID but very fast onset of signs to death- less than one week). They were posting all over Facebook that their snake died of BOID without getting any testing done. I told them to keep quiet until they had test results or they'd probably ruin their reputation. I gave them information on several similar diseases and vets that could run tests for them, but apparently they never bothered. They've also since bought more snakes and haven't quarantined anything!! Also, the lady was telling me her hogg island boa died the other week. I felt bad until I heard how- apparently they were housing the baby boa with an adult BCI and a ball python. The BCI killed and attempted to eat both the other snakes. WTF??? Really??? You've been keeping snakes for years and didn't know that you should never house them together???? Also, they potentially have BOID in their collection and they're bringing more animals into the house..and not getting any testing done. Come on! I am soo glad I bought the pair of Savus and they didn't. Ugh, makes me so mad. I am trying to be helpful but it was hard not to rip them a new one when I heard about the Hogg island boa.

marvelfreak · 01-27-11, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Will0W783

I had to vent on this situation..it has me steaming mad. A while back I met a couple who claims that they've been keeping snakes for years. They were interested in a pair of Savu pythons I had made an offer on and was waiting for confirmation. I ended up getting the Savus, and promised the couple I'd keep in touch and sell them babies, since they talked about how much experience they had with snakes. Well, since then we've been in touch and they have done some stuff which just flabbergasts me. They had a GTP die of neurological symptoms and mouth rot about a month ago (symptoms of BOID but very fast onset of signs to death- less than one week). They were posting all over Facebook that their snake died of BOID without getting any testing done. I told them to keep quiet until they had test results or they'd probably ruin their reputation. I gave them information on several similar diseases and vets that could run tests for them, but apparently they never bothered. They've also since bought more snakes and haven't quarantined anything!! Also, the lady was telling me her hogg island boa died the other week. I felt bad until I heard how- apparently they were housing the baby boa with an adult BCI and a ball python. The BCI killed and attempted to eat both the other snakes. WTF??? Really??? You've been keeping snakes for years and didn't know that you should never house them together???? Also, they potentially have BOID in their collection and they're bringing more animals into the house..and not getting any testing done. Come on! I am soo glad I bought the pair of Savus and they didn't. Ugh, makes me so mad. I am trying to be helpful but it was hard not to rip them a new one when I heard about the Hogg island boa.

Kim please turn them in to animal control so know more poor animals suffer at their hands.