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UPS had a problem with my delivery from Bluerosy so some genius in UPS instead of checking the address against the zip sent my snakes to another location. they changed Beaver Street to Weaver Street. I left work early to go to the location to find out there is no 25 Weaver Street. UPS is run by morons. Eventually 9 hours later I picked up the snakes from UPS. Rainer was a big help and the axanthic is smoking hot. Love the hypo. I was sooo happy the snakes survived.

Ok it gets worse when I come home to check my new rack and helix i find the female thayeri i got from Mike B the day before has escaped. Can't find her and she's not big enough to survive the winter in my house. I was ready to scream

And yet it would survive a winter if it was in the wild?
Most people under estimate the capabilities of natural design.
Have faith, you may find her healthy and alive. Even if it isn't until spring.
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And yet it would survive a winter if it was in the wild?
Most people under estimate the capabilities of natural design.
Have faith, you may find her healthy and alive. Even if it isn't until spring.

IF they can find water. As you know, neonates dehydrate very quick.

In the house I find them near water, bathroom, dishwasher etc..

Sorry about the nightmare yesterday. UPS is a real peice of work.
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"They that can give up essential liberty, to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety." -Benjamin Franklin

Although most shipping is done without a hitch, there are some instances like the op went through.
That is one of the reasons I try to get both parties to agree to have the box kept at the closest staffed facility for pick up. (actually FedEx is supposed to be done that way with snakes)
It removes some of the worry of having a box sitting in a too hot/cold truck for half the day and the "wrong address" issues as well.
If we're really concerned about the animals, to me anyway, it seems like little inconvenience to travel a short way to pick up a shipment rather than have it possibly lost in transit.
Obviously, there are those who don't have a nearby FedEx facility or whatever but most times they're not too far away
:Mark
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A couple years ago, A UPS moron sent my big shipment of frozen rats and mice to my freakin' LANDLORD'S townhouse/office across the street from me. The street number on my townhome was as plainly marked as the nose on my face on the street-facing wall above the garage too. Anyway, the guys 50-some year old crack-smoking son gets the bright idea to open it up anyway, knowing full well the box wasn't their property, and my name and address were right there on the top label. I'm sure he just wanted to open it up since it was labeled RodentPro, and would later just play "stupid" about opening it, and simply say he didn't read the address label before he tore into the box....yeah, RIGHT!

The landlord knew NOTHING about all the snakes I owned, and I certainly wanted to keep it that way too...geesh!

So the opened box of rodents was walked across the street, then placed by the idiot that opened it at my front door with a hand-written message that it was accidentally sent across the street.

So when I found out they opened it across the street, I'm sure everyone there was blown away, and thought hmmm?, huge rats and mice??, must be some huge "deadly" constrictors over there that are owned by our tenant.

So of course I'm sweating bullets wondering what to tell these people now, and when I walked the rent check over a couple days later, I simply told him I sold them frozen at some reptile shows now and then for some extra money. So basically that was the end of it, but man, what a catastrophe the UPS dude made from his stupidity, not to mention putting the idea of all this into my landlord's head forever............ARRRGH!!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

The City was wrong on the shipping but, the street, state and zip were right so UPS, in their wisdom, switched the street and zip to match a street thats sounds like "beaver" in Staten Island. If they bothered to check and see if there was a Beaver Street in the 10004 zip code we wouldnt' have had a problem.
I can laugh now because i have my snakes alive but the level of incompetence on UPS's part was unreal. they did try really hard on customer service to help I think because they realized they rerouted my package to an address that doesn't exist.

On the topic of the escapee, don't underestimate the ability for your snake to live a fairly long time in the cold. I had an 18 inch long brooks king get out into a bag of bedding in my snake room last year. Not knowing that she was in there, I moved the bag into my cool room for storage along with my adults. After 3 months of cooling, I took the adults and the bedding out, went to use the bedding and there she was, skinny but alive. I found her in June and she is doing great, gaining weight, and you wouldn't know what happened by looking at her. For reference I keep my cool room fluctuating between 50 and 65 degrees. Keep an eye out for it and maybe you will find it on accident as I did. Good luck and let us know if you find it!

I agree, don't underestimate! My GBK escaped October 2008, she was barely a food long and already refusing food for three weeks. I live in MT and barely kept the house at 56 all winter and I found her crawling across my living room floor August of this year, skinny and dehydrated and not a shed longer, but alive! Montana dips below -20 in the winter!

I agree. I had a yearling male Greeri on the lamb in my snakeroom from mid October until the following April. Drank a bit of water and had a ravenous appetite, but otherwise, none the worse.

She was tiny and she may have gone done a hole to my basement. I've checked everywhere, the basement isn't heated. I don't have a lot of hope. I'll leave water out here and in the basement but I've seen no sign of her

>>Ok it gets worse when I come home to check my new rack and helix i find the female thayeri i got from Mike B the day before has escaped. Can't find her and she's not big enough to survive the winter in my house. I was ready to scream >>

There are only two things that could kill the snake - cats and dehydration. Aside from that, the snake will easily survive.

I lost a baby Kenyan sandboa for 4 months during Winter to Spring. When I found him, he looked a tad bigger. Found him in a towel in the linen closet when I grabbed the towel to take a shower. I lost a Sinaloan for almost a year before I found him. He was a bit dry but was just fine after a soak. Just goes to show you that snakes are quite resiliant.

Put out a hide full of moist sphagnum moss, and a heat pad. Also try blue painters masking tape set sticky-side up along doorways and such, as long as you don't have cats. Snakes tend to move along the walls rather than across the open floor.
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