..for the snake.

My intentions are that people will be more aware of how to ship snakes stress free. It malkes more common sense that shipping a snake in a deli cup with minimal filling is more stressful to the snake than one filled to the rim with shavings.

I have received snakes in the deli cup with NO paper towels and NO shavings, nothing at all and I have also received snakes with minimal or half filled with some type of substrate or paper towels. The snakes still arrived alive and ate and seemed fine. But in truth the fact they suvived is not the best indicator on how to ship properly. There is no way to ask the snake what it went through or what it prefers. But based on the natural history colubrids and North american boids it seems they would prefer the tight ecloser a filled deli cup provides.

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