Your one stop reptile community - thinning collection down alittle :-D

MAG_Pythons · #1 (**permalink**) 08-30-2006, 03:10 AM

Hey ya'll i have 4 snakes that i'd be interested in finding new homes for. I'd be interested in trading for cages ... lol thats mainly it, but if you have somthing else, Shoot me a PM or if you would just want to buy them, i really need a BIG cage for a Big Boa (my nic is a lil too big for the cage she's in) / burm

#1 - Male Juvinile boa - about 3.5 - 4 feet long

#2 - Male Ball Python - no pic yet

#3 - Female JCP/Jungle Cross - about 6 feet long and very very pretty

... she's the dark yellow and black.

#4 - Taiwanese beauty snake

- about 2 feet long - eats a rat fuzz every week and he's growin like a weed

louise · #2 (**permalink**) 08-30-2006, 04:19 AM

arn't you gonna feel bad getting rid of your pets to get others? not slamming you but that just confuses me.

JuliusSqueezer · #3 (**permalink**) 08-30-2006, 04:24 AM

I'm having a really hard time understanding the boa thing. Getting rid of one boa so you can drive to NC to get another one? I'm lost. Thinning a collection is one thing, thinning to make room for more that you aren't even sure you want to keep...is something you really need to do some soul searching about.

Adrya · #4 (**permalink**) 08-30-2006, 04:26 AM

I was wondering the same thing. I mean you JUST bought the BP, Taiwanese and RTB and you're just letting them go like that for more bigger snakes that require more food? The BP, Taiwanese and RTB were better off just staying at the petstore where someone else could buy them and keep them for a long time.

And I'm also wondering... if you're trying to make money off of these snakes to get cages and possibly more snakes, and you can't get enough money to make a cheaper cage with plexi for doors, then how can you possibly afford to buy food for the new boa and female burm when it gets to be an adult? and you're supposedly saving up for an albino or DH sunglow or sunglow..?

That just doesn't work.

As I similarly stated yesterday to what Brett said, you need to sit and think for awhile.

louise · #5 (**permalink**) 08-30-2006, 04:41 AM

thanks guys that is what i was trying to say but i am so bad at expressing what i am trying to say. but what brett and adrya said is what i was trying to get at.

Adrya · #6 (**permalink**) 08-30-2006, 04:56 AM

So you should either stick with the snakes you have and not get the boa and burm, or only stick with a few snakes if you can't afford to keep all of them by yourself if/when you go off to college, or right now for that matter if you're having trouble getting enough money to buy enough food for them. Doesn't matter if you work at McD's without a degree, that's not enough to buy or rent a place, pay utilities, pay for a car, or pay for repairs on a hand-me-down car, and care for all those snakes at the same time. And your daddy and sister aren't gonna want your load of snakes dropped onto them when you go off by yourself if you can't take your animals with you. They don't need to pay the expenses of food with their own money for YOUR snakes.

ChristopherD · #7 (**permalink**) 08-30-2006, 05:00 AM

Well... I am sure she has a reason for doing this, and it really isn't my place to question her about it. If I am not correct I thought she was trying to get rid of the carpet for a while. And maybe she is sick of a somewhat grumpy beauty snake. I don't know...

I don't think she NEEDS to do anything... It isn't common on this site, but there are a LOT of people around here who get snakes and only keep them for a small amount of time before trading for something else. I know a lot of people who do that with dogs, cats, houses, cars, everything.

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