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hello all
will here, aka cb76 with a bit of bad news.
as some of you know i have a very large collection, i have over 100 boas and pythons now (and colubrids too!) kept at 2 different places. some are with my dad and some i snuck into my house to keep with me.( i have nosy neighbors and had to sneak 'em.)
anyways, i have been working alooooot lately and knew i would have no free time last week. so the last time i saw the snakes at my fathers house (before yesterday) was last sunday!
my snakes are taken care of. nothing sort of excellence when it comes to them.
i took all the necessary precautions and even switched to larger bowls to keep them with water!
well, i go there yesterday to find a very large female had given birth somethime during the week- one that i didnt even suspect as gravid! (she was on the babies at the time of me finding them)
what happened was she crushed and killed all the babies. it didnt smell like rotting corpses in the room, it just smelled like a large dog took a dump.
one of the windows doesnt have a screen so flys got in. i noticed a few maggots.
i just covered everything with aspen and threw it out. so i dont have a count.....but there were babies.
i feel terrible.... my female had to sit in that stuff for a while. dont worry- she got all cleaned up.
she lost quite a bit of weight from the birth.
AHHHHHHHHH........ i just feel like crap. i am never gonna stay away that long again.
so add to the births here (which have been plentyful) a HUGE MISHAP. the entire litter was gone.
dont worry......every one else was (and is still) in perfect condition. all the babies i have left too are perfectly healthy.
i jst figured i would tell this. no matter what you do- poopy happens!
dont stay away for too long.
will
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