Kids who live with their parents.....

[Will0W783]

.....should not try to smuggle Burmese pythons into the house without permission!!!

A good friend of mine runs a local pet store, and one of his employees is a 19-y/o kid who doesn't seem to understand that while he may technically be an "adult", it doesn't mean he has the right to do whatever he wants in his parents' house. I frequently tear into him for not managing temps and humidity for his retic properly. I have given him medication and taught him to do injections, given countless lectures on proper husbandry and safety procedures with giant snakes, yet none of it sinks in. About a week ago, two days after he got done telling me his retic was wheezing and coughing, he texted me pictures of a giant albino Burmese python and said it was new "friend." I quite calmly informed him that he'd better fix his keeping practices FAST, because Burms do not tolerate the extremes that retics can.
Well, yesterday I got a tearful phone call that his stepmom had thrown him and the Burm out of the house and told him not to come back until the snake had found a new home. In the interest of making sure the behemoth didn't go to another one of his friends who might not know how to care for it, my fiance and I went and picked her up.

She is MASSIVE!!! Absolutely beautiful, but insanely big. Easily 15 feet and 100 pounds. She seems in good shape- firm proper weight, no evidence of mites, and no scars. Eyes are clear, and nostrils and mouth are clean. She was very docile and calm about me poking and prodding, examining her. She is being quarantined, and I will make sure she eats and is healthy before I decide whether to keep her permanently or rehome her to another qualified keeper. In the meantime, here are some pictures of her: