I live sorta kinda near Borrego Springs, and work at a Petco, and a LOT of people come into my store with wild-caught rosy boas wanting to keep them.

Since most people coming into a Petco with a snake they caught in their yard have never owned reptiles before, I tell them to let it go, better off getting captive bred, etc, etc.

My folks have always told me never to keep rosies from this area because they're threatened, or something along those lines, and they're needed in the wild to keep up the wild populations. Is this correct?

I've also heard it's alright to keep one or two wildcaught snakes if you have a fishing permit, otherwise it's illegal to keep california native species.

And what should I tell the people who come into my store with the poor snakes in tiny little plastic things? I already say vet visit, to get it checked out, along with a quarantine period of at least a month, preferably two or three, if they've got any other reptiles or amphibians.



And last but not least - the best sort of bedding? Sand, bark, dry forest bedding, aspen shavings?



Any help is appreciated!

~jenny
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1.1 normal ball pythons (Cindy and Darwin)

1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)

0.1 bunny (Spazz)

2.1 betta fishes (Vicious, Killer, and Butters)

3.1 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)

1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)

1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)

2.0 horses (Buddy and Sam)

1.0 goat (Billy Jack)

2.25 chickens (Jacques the rooster and his harem)



but what I really want is more ball pythons!

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