my lavendar cornsnake starved himself to death - Page 2

**Aaron_S** · 11-04-12, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by exwizard

Hindsight is 20/20...

This piece of garbage is no reason or excuse to NOT properly think ahead. "Hey, we don't touch snakes for hours after eating but it's OKAY to take a drive across town after a stress force/assist feeding."

Gotcha.

You're the last person I would ever ask for advice.

For more advice, RMF, even though you want a lavender get some big girl panties on and research where to find one. I'm POSITIVE I can find you 3 that can be shipped to you for cheap.

Oh, I'm sorry, I bet you want the dirt cheap ones at shows.

In case you need "Jupiter 2" here are some links...

Corn Snakes – BHB Reptiles

Lavender Corn Snake (Baby) For Sale Online, Buy Now With UPS Overnight Shipping

Kingsnake.com Classifieds > Corn Snake Classifieds

There's four at the bottom of BHB's page of various combos.
The Bell's have one on sale for 39.99!
The last is a list from kingsnake...searching purely for lavenders. You didn't have to wait so long and then lose so much by getting the one from the show.

EmbraceCalamity · 11-04-12, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Aaron_S

This piece of garbage is no reason or excuse to NOT properly think ahead. "Hey, we don't touch snakes for hours after eating but it's OKAY to take a drive across town after a stress force/assist feeding."

Gotcha.

You're the last person I would ever ask for advice.

For more advice, RMF, even though you want a lavender get some big girl panties on and research where to find one. I'm POSITIVE I can find you 3 that can be shipped to you for cheap.

Oh, I'm sorry, I bet you want the dirt cheap ones at shows.

In case you need "Jupiter 2" here are some links...

Corn Snakes – BHB Reptiles

Lavender Corn Snake (Baby) For Sale Online, Buy Now With UPS Overnight Shipping

Kingsnake.com Classifieds > Corn Snake Classifieds

There's four at the bottom of BHB's page of various combos.
The Bell's have one on sale for 39.99!
The last is a list from kingsnake...searching purely for lavenders. You didn't have to wait so long and then lose so much by getting the one from the show.

I love you a little.

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Originally Posted by infernalis

"Pretty much" being the key here Joe.

I did the show circuit for years, a different metro every weekend, pick a city east of the Mississippi river and I have probably done a table or two.

I hung up banners, passed out cards and took pride in my work.

But every single show had at least one or two people who would only do a table in any one city every couple years, no cards, no banners, just a cash box.

Heck, one guy set up his table and put the sheets over everything, it was still an hour before the doors opened, he sat out in his truck snorting coke. I know because I was parked right next to him and I saw it.

Either that or his scratch and sniff CD case smelled really good.

The point is, like I said... not EVERYONE at EVERY show is 100%

Yes, some shows are higher class than others, Can't say I have ever been to Tinley, so my statements are in general..... Anyone with the money for a table can set up at a show.

That's not really a surprise. Unless the shows have strict regulations (not been to one yet, so I wouldn't know), it goes without saying that there would be some people there that are ****. I'd hesitate to buy a reptile from a show unless the vender looked really legit.

~Maggot

exwizard · 11-04-12, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Aaron_S

This piece of garbage is no reason or excuse to NOT properly think ahead. "Hey, we don't touch snakes for hours after eating but it's OKAY to take a drive across town after a stress force/assist feeding."

Gotcha.

You're the last person I would ever ask for advice.

I wouldn't give you advice if my life depended on it. Your arrogance still amazes me and it blinds you the hateful self that you are.

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Originally Posted by Aaron_S

For more advice, RMF, even though you want a lavender get some big girl panties on and research where to find one. I'm POSITIVE I can find you 3 that can be shipped to you for cheap.

You outdid yourself yet again. Wow!

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Originally Posted by Aaron_S

Oh, I'm sorry, I bet you want the dirt cheap ones at shows.

She was not expecting to find this one and when she did find it, she was so excited aboiut it, I decided to get it for her. So much for holding out for the "super cheap ones" at the shows. I dont even care what you say anyway. Your arrogance oozes all over your posts. I dont even know why I even feel the need to call you out on it. I know from what perspective you operate on and Ive known it for a long time. Oh wait, I know why. You smell blood and you want in on this attack just to satisfy your own ego.

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Originally Posted by Aaron_S

In case you need "Jupiter 2" here are some links...

Corn Snakes – BHB Reptiles

Lavender Corn Snake (Baby) For Sale Online, Buy Now With UPS Overnight Shipping

Kingsnake.com Classifieds > Corn Snake Classifieds

There's four at the bottom of BHB's page of various combos.
The Bell's have one on sale for 39.99!
The last is a list from kingsnake...searching purely for lavenders.

This is the only constructive thing you said in this post and it took major sifting through all the sarcasm and condemnation to be able to pull anything good out of your post. Thanks a lot!

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Originally Posted by Aaron_S

You didn't have to wait so long and then lose so much by getting the one from the show.

"shoulda woulda coulda". This is most of what you said in this post and for the most part is soo unproductive. But then thats just like you and really even now in all my amazement of what you are capable of, only confirms to me just how hateful you are. I wrtite you off from here on out. Nothing you can say ever until you are blue in the face can ever have ANY relevance to me or anything I say or do. So let it be written. So let it be done.

aaron_cg · 11-03-12, 11:47 AM

Aww, im sorry. I would hate to lose a snake

Snakefood · 11-03-12, 11:52 AM

Sorry to hear, I would be calling that breeder pronto!!

shaunyboy · 11-03-12, 12:50 PM

if a snakes that weak or run down...

the route i would have went was,i would have tube fed it,with high protien cat and dog food from the vets

the foods designed to get sick animals back to health and full strength after periods of illness

i use a 10ml syringe and an infant feeding tube to do it

also i would never buy a snake,that did not look like it was in 100% full health mate

cheers shaun

Revenant · 11-03-12, 01:52 PM

Sorry you lost him. Just for future reference, trying to feed a snake again so soon after a regurge can be a much bigger risk than letting them go longer without food, even if you're not force-feeding.

It is possible you just got one of those babies that didn't want to start. I'd hope a breeder wouldn't put such a baby through the stress of a show and being misrepresented to the new owner, but it does happen.

I hope you have better luck with your next one and it is a normal, piggy, garbage-disposal of a corn.

iBaman · 11-03-12, 02:09 PM

i'm so sorry, rmf =[

KORBIN5895 · 11-04-12, 07:36 AM

One of my blood red corns wouldn't eat.

exwizard · 11-04-12, 08:03 AM

They assist fed. They took a mouse pinkie, thawed it out, warmed it up and got it half way down. The snake did the rest himself.

shaunyboy · 11-04-12, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by exwizard

They assist fed. They took a mouse pinkie, thawed it out, warmed it up and shoved it all the way down.

^^^^^
that was FORCE feeding mate

ASSIST feeding is....

when you open the snakes mouth with the head of a pinkie...

the snake bites down on the pinkie...

then you lay the snake in it's tank,with the pinkie still in its mouth and the snake,takes the rest of the pinkie down by ITSELF

cheers shaun

KORBIN5895 · 11-04-12, 08:20 AM

You guys should probably slow down as you aren't certain what actually killed this one.

Also you edited your post to cover your mistake. Don't blame Shaun.

shaunyboy · 11-04-12, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

You guys should probably slow down as you aren't certain what actually killed this one.

Also you edited your post to cover your mistake. Don't blame Shaun.

i though i was going senile for a minute there Kevin....

but then i checked the part i quoted in my post,thats when i noticed the editing

cheers for spotting that mate

as said we're pretty much beating a dead horse/snake now

cheers shaun

exwizard · 11-04-12, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by KORBIN5895

You guys should probably slow down as you aren't certain what actually killed this one.

Also you edited your post to cover your mistake. Don't blame Shaun.

I edited my post because I was told more accurate info after my original post but before I read Shauns post. Im not blaming anyone and as far as us slowing down Ive already decided I have enough snakes anyway, but there's one other thing I need to say right now. What I see happening here is yet ANOTHER wolf pack mentality going on here. Some of you guys are on the condemnation attack AGAIN. Nothing productive can come of that so it needs to stop now. This is why a lot of people are hesitant to even post stuff like this.

rmfsnakes32 · 11-04-12, 08:22 AM

The reason I had to take the snake with me was because the person that knows how to assist feed (she has done this many times where as I had only done it on larger snakes) lives clear on the other side of town and was without a vehicle so thats why he regurged on the way home I know that is a stressful event anyway! In hindsight I should have left the snake at her place for a few days to digest. But a day late and a dollar short, life lesson learned!!!!!!!!!!!! I cant change the fact that he is dead!!!!!!!!! Thank you to those whose expressed their sympothies!