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Are you or anyone that you know is using any wood shavings from Long Beach Shavings Company?

http://www.longbeachshavings.com/products.html

My good friend and fellow breeder has been using their products for ten years on his boas. He recently lost nearly an entire litter of baby boas and a very nice holdback yearling becuse this company is now using cedar in nearly all of its products. Nothing on any packaging or product info lists shows cedar as an ingredient. When he called the company they did in fact tell him that cedar is being used in the place of the other woods, Hemlock and Doug Fir due to a lack of supply. CEDAR IS FATAL TO BOAS!(and I'm sure other snakes)

This information needs to be passed around and people need to be made aware! This stuff is available all up and down the west coast and probably more...

I posted this in the boa forum because that is all I keep. If you use another forum... Please post this info. there too!

Thank you!
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Jeff Carr
West Coast Constrictors
www.westcoastconstrictors.com

as well. A friend of mine did some serious digging after losing animals due to very small ingestion of cypress mulch(once again after using it for over 10 years from the same supplier). The Agway brand is NOT safe, as well as others. The federal gov. passed a law this year that stated they could use a certain percent of "filler" in mulch/wood shavings now. Ceder is one of the cheapest "fillers".
If it has less than a certain percentage of other wood than the main wood on the label, they DO NOT HAVE TO INCLUDE IT ON THE LABEL!! Be very carefull!! Alot of these will be called Cypress mulch blend, not Cypress Mulch.
Gotta love the government, on one hand making more insane laws for us to follow, on the other, letting stuff like this slide....