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Re: cut short
Posted by PHFaust on February 05, 2003 at 12:24:36:
In Reply to: cut short posted by andiwantapony on January 08, 2003 at 04:27:00:
This is truely wrong. You are correct in assuming that the breeder should accept some responsibility. While i have limited experience with baby boas (i usually get them when they are large and unmanagable) I would suggest getting a copy of necropsy results and mail them to the breeder if you have not already done so.
Now on to your feelings. Attachment to reptiles is something many people dont understand, but trust me I do. I am a reptile keeper and the worst feeling is when you lose one to reasons that you couldnt have controlled. Not sure if you are specifically set on color morphs, but I can tell you that there are several boas that are in need of homes. Many of these guys are just looking for a safe place to call their forever home. I hope your heart heals from this loss. Im gonna send great big python hugs and iguana head bobs your way from this scaley household.
Cindy
PHFaust
: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.