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I have a question. I was at petsmart today to by some frozen feeders and the one guy that was there told me he had a baby python in back that was free because some one found it in there back yard and it had a slice on it there vets stitched it up and they can’t sell it cause it was found in the wild he just started eating crickets cause he is still to small for small pinkies and he his having a really bad shed cause the humidity in there is bad in the tank and I don’t know what kind of Python it is I was wondering if I was to take this snake what would I have to worry about also what kind of stuff should I find out about it I never got a reptile like this I allways know about it before I got them this is new for me any help would be great
Thanks

take a picture of it and find out what it is.

Well you can't do any worse or know any less than they do so get it and set it up right and then find out what it is and if you want to keep it. Like the other poster said a pic would help and if you have a herp society in your area they should be able to help. I am in Chicago and our society gets quite a few live animal "donations" from the chain stores. They just don't have any idea or desire to take care of their animals in the right way. Even with the care requirements on the cage on one of their general info cards you can find their animals in different conditions than what the card says. Like bearded dragons in high humidity and low heat??? I pointed that one out one time and they looked at me confused. I didn't tell them what was wrong, I just asked them to read the card on the tank and then I stared at the sales person until they got a manager. LOL He wasn't much better.

Jason

....the longest run-on sentence I have ever read before in my entire life.

Good luck with the snake, whatever it turns out to be.
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Tom

"The more people I meet, the more I like my snakes"

Maybe it's a green gardener, or some type of gardener snake. I know that some eat crickets. I use to have one. Alot of times people will call any old snake a python if they don't know any better. There was an articla a while back where someone found a "python" in there home and a vet said that that species of python can grow to be over 10 feet and it was just a plain corn snake.
But again a pic would be helpful
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