I guess it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I lost my day planner with my driver's license, and other things. I had to replace the driver's license, and since it was right next to the Animal Control, I stopped by to see what they had.

I had thought I put my name on a list for someone to call if they got reptiles in, but was informed once there they "don't do that". They did have some reptiles in though.

They had a 6' Burmese python, a Red-tailed Boa, some Geckos, and some Corn snakes. The Burmese hissed at us, and since she was a large girl, I knew I couldn't handle her. The ONLY snake experience I have is with nice docile Balls!

The Red-tailed was kind of large as well. They said somone had their name on its card, so I figured that one would go to a good home.

I had to go get some mice for my snakes, so at Petland, I told the snake guy about the Burmese. He couldn't take the girl, so he called someone and left a message on their machine about the snakes.

I couldn't stand not doing anything else, so I had planned on bring their plight up at the Herpetological meeting on Tuesday. I then got the bright idea to call Josh, a local guy with snake experience. I had gotten my Iguana from him, seen his collection and new he would either know someone or would take them himself.

Sure enough, he went and saw the snakes, handled them some, and will be taking them home (along with the Geckos, the Corn snakes were little and turned loose) tomorrow! WOHOO!! I am SO HAPPY! It ALMOST makes up for the loss of my driver's license, other license and some credit cards along with my ATM card (they did try to use the ATM card, but didn't have my PIN number!)

Okay, okay, knowing they will get a good home DOES make up for the loss! I will be calling my county's Animal Control along with a neighboring county. Now I feel I have some kind of network set up, I feel MUCH more comfortable doing some thing like this.

Thanks for all the stories and the encouragement to go out and actually DO something, not just sit on the sidelines!

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