Its not just crummy pet shops that sell abused animals!

[OldHag]

We were bored today and went looking at a few yard sales. I saw some tanks and thought HEY!! MORE CAGES FOR BUGS!
I darted over to check them out and found a tree python in HORRIBLE shape!! It had peices of shed stuck all over it. A half dead mouse hanging from some dryed up weed in the corner. Its nose was all beat up and scabby.
They were selling it for 10 bucks. I wanted to get it just to save it and get it a good home ( I dont like bitey snakes) but my husband VETOED my rescue attempts.
Im just sick about that poor thing. Why do ppl get these animals if theyre going to slowly kill them!! Why not just stab it to death right off the bat!!

Naughty people!!!

 

[Snipes]

ugh, but i do also say on you for not rescuing the poor thing. Dont you know that vetoes can be overthrown in the U.S? You and i can get the 2/3 override you know. Besides, you would have to KEEP it. It feels so awsome if you can nurse it to health. Then you can give it a good home. Go on, just go back and get it and hide it in the closet .

 

[Stylopidae]

I hate to say it, but your husband probably did the right thing. That snake will be replaced by another one and yet another.

Sympathy buying is just a sales tactic.

It's sad in the pet trade that animals are considered as products and treated as such, but it's life. Boycott the petstore. Sadly, there is nary a good petstore around my area. The only one that can get decent exotics sells L. Parybahna for $120 apeice. Needless to say, their animals aren't in the best of shape.

A half dead mouse hanging from some dryed up weed in the corner.

And negative bonus points for supplying their badly cared for herps with cheap narcotics.

 

[Scorpendra]

I hate to say it, but your husband probably did the right thing. That snake will be replaced by another one and yet another.

Sympathy buying is just a sales tactic.

It's sad in the pet trade that animals are considered as products and treated as such, but it's life. Boycott the petstore. Sadly, there is nary a good petstore around my area. The only one that can get decent exotics sells L. Parybahna for $120 apeice. Needless to say, their animals aren't in the best of shape.



And negative bonus points for supplying their badly cared for herps with cheap narcotics.

erm, she said this happened in someone's yard sale.

that's just plain awful. i mean, really. i feel sick just imagining that poor animal.

 

[Stylopidae]

Oh, <EDIT>...I totally didn't catch that :wall:

Well...in that case...um...yeah

 

[fangsalot]

oops! SOMEBODY SLIPpED THE S WOORD.lol

 

[Windchaser]

oops! SOMEBODY SLIPpED THE S WOORD.lol

Not for long.

 

[Stylopidae]

Not for long.

Sorry about that.

Good 'ole AB editing is the best and fastest in the land

 

[OldHag]

Sorry about that.

Good 'ole AB editing is the best and fastest in the land

How dare you use my favorite "S" word in my thread!!

Im going to live the rest of my life wishing I could have helped that poor snake. UGH
My husband got laid off of work so we have NO Income. No way to take it to a vet and get it some help otherwise I would have Overridden the Veto!
it sucks.

 

[Beardo]

Was it a Green Tree Python (Morelia viridis)?? If so, I'd have taken the chance and bought it for $10....thats like seeing a P. metallica for $10 lol.

 

[OldHag]

Im sure it was a Tree Python... after that I couldnt tell ya what kind.. morph.. or anything. I dont like bitey snakes so Ive never persued knowledge about them They said they found it crawling across a parking lot and it was so mean and they couldnt get it to eat so they dont want it.
It was kind of a light tannish brown. Could have been a yellow one that is faded and dull. It had lots of old shed stuck to it all over.

Like this http://www.chondrodreams.com/images/mystic.jpg only with tons of stuck sheds and very thin, with scabby nose and a bit more brown than green.

 

[Midnightrdr456]

Is that a tree pyton or a tree boa?? They look a little similar to me since ive never been into arboreal boas (they are a bit too aggressive for my liking although beautiful)

 

[RVS]

Was it an Amazon tree boa perhaps?

http://www.exotic-animals.org/kace/opis_vrst/amazon_tree_boa/amazon_tree_boa.jpg

Poor thing...
If I saw it I would have taken it, but I would have made absolutely sure those people never own another exotic pet.
I hope someone who can care for it properly took it.

 

[bugmankeith]

You see stuff like that at fairs all the time. I was at a fair where if you get a ball in the goldfish bowl, you have a choice of a hermit crab,green anole, or green iguana! I swear the iguana cage (10 gallon) had 50 baby iguanas in it in the hot sun with no water or food! The anole cage probably 100+, and was in the same condition. The hermit crabs were in just a plain cage with no food or substrate, but they were out of the sun.

 

[Beardo]

Chances are it was an Amazon Tree Boa (Corallus hortulanus) or perhaps even a Carpet Python (Morelia spilota sp) of some sort....at no point in time/locale are Green Tree Pythons (aka Chondros) brown. If you know where they are and they still have the snake, I'd be happy to take it....I'll pay for the snake and shipping. Just throwing that out there, since arboreal boids with less than friendly attitudes are nothing new to me.