Well, I knew some day MS would stop me from something I enjoyed, and it appears now that thing is breeding corns



As many of you know, I only got interested in snakes, corn in particular, almost two years ago. Since then I have spent most of my time studying, learning, and caring for my collection. I was up over 15 for a while after Ruby had her babies last year, but through selling and giving some away, I'm down to 11, a pretty manageable number, until recently



Over about the past three weeks I've been loosing the strength in my legs and arms, and have been having a lot of difficulty walking. I have no one to help me with the snakes, and though I've been denying it to family, I think I have to slim down to just two or three of them. I also just built thema rack, and now can't use the top three shelves because I can't reach them without a chair or stool, and I've been told no more step stools. (I fell off it last week oops)



I'm not interested in making $$ of them, I just don't want to give them away or worse, pay to ship them to someone, as I've invested my time and care in them, and like them a lot.



Any advice on how to pick who goes? Obviously not Ruby, she's ganna stay till I'm gone. But I can realistically only keep maybe two others, and when ruby does finally lay her eggs (if ever?! she started eating again now?) all of those babies will have to go too.



I hate to do this, I really had big plans for breeding these guys, I just didn't know how quickly ms would limit my abilities
-----
Dianne

AKA IcedGoddess

5.6 Cornsnakes

1.3 Cats

1.0 Pionus parrot

0.1 Child

IcedGoddess Creations

Castle Serpents

[ Show Entire Thread ]