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Posted by PHRottn on January 10, 2003 at 00:49:27:

In Reply to: cut short posted by andiwantapony on January 08, 2003 at 04:27:00:

Andi, I'm so sorry for your loss. I don't know a thing about snakes, but that is a terrible thing for both your baby and you to experience.

Thank you for caring enough to post this information for others to see. Unfortunately, irresponsible/uncaring breeders exist in all species. I've heard many stories from dogs, cats, hedgehogs, guinea pigs, lizards, snakes, etc.

It also doesn't matter what species of companion animals steal your heart. The hole left by their passing is the same. I know you will never replace your boa, but maybe you will get another that will help you heal from this loss.

Please come back and let us know how your are doing and try to visit us in the Grief Support chats. They are available nightly. You will find the link on the Pet Loss main page.

PHRottn

:This summer I my boyfriend gave me Camulous, a beautiful baby albino boa. It took some time to get him comfortable with me, but soon he went with me everywhere, wrapped around my neck, or in my coat pocket. I know a lot of people think that snakes are gross, but for me (especially with my allergies to hair & dander) they are beautiful. I really bonded with him. Then one day we came home and found him dead. He was only 4 months old. It was devastating. We of course took him to our vet (who he had just been to the week before) and they confirmed his death. We were hoping that maybe he was just sick, not gone. They sent him for a necropsy and it came back that he had died of an infected egg yolk. Snakes have an egg yolk so that they can survive when they are first born, but he should have used it all up before the breeder fed him for the first time. Well, it hadn't been used & had rotted, ruptured & killed him. This news shocked us, since we had assumed that the breeder we had purchased him from was competent. We contacted the breeder to let him know what had happened. We dint want anyone else to go through this, we dint want any other babies to die. The breeder said that it wasn't his fault, and that he had done nothing wrong & would not change the way he did things. My Camulous died because he was fed too early, by the breeder. I am angry to say the least. I miss him, and just to think that the person whose negligence killed him doesn't care really upsets me. I am writing this so that maybe it wont happen again. I really don't know what else to do. I only had him for a few months, but I had waited so long for him, and he was my baby.

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