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I came home today to find my house trashed and my ball python collection gone. If you know ANYTHING please contact me ASAP. The police got some prints so I will have to wait for that. These were taken mid-day today in Anaheim, CA.
A partial list of what is missing:
spider, pieds, ghosts, pastels, mojave and many hets and normals.
Please contact me at poolfxr@adelphia.net with info or call (714) 296-4694.
REWARD!!!!

i can imagine what ya are going through, what a nightmare!!
I hope you catch the guys and they are thrown in jail for a long, long time.
I would not rest untill i found out who did it.
I had my house broke into once, and what a weird feeling, knowing someone was in your castle .
Good luck, and keep looking to ya find em.

Mike

Good luck. I will pray that you find them safe and sound

Im so sorry to hear of your loss and i hope that you find get some great leads on the fingerprints. Steve and I would like to help in anyway possiable and we will keep a close eye out for any unusual sales that we see since we know most of the breeders here in the southern Orange County area.. Again im so sorry to hear of this event and our best wishes are with you.

Sincerely,
Rose & Steve
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If i were you i would keep an eye on the classifieds for a while too... I've heard of it happening more than once that there is a theft from a show and then it shows up in the classifieds... just my two cent.... good luck with the fingerprints, hopefully they will provide you with all the evidence you need... Good luck

Sincerley
Rose & Steve
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Oh my word! I am so sorry! I hope the scumball is caught in short order~ meanwhile, I know it's not much~ but I live in Corona and I will take some time this weekend to cruise through the local pet/reptile shops and see if anyone suddenly has a lot of high dollor balls for sale.

Do you have pics of the specific animals? If they took the balls, they must have known or at least had an idea what they were worth. How many people know where you live, what your sechedule is, and what you keep?

Like I said, I'm local, if you think of any way I can help out just drop me a note.

Hopefully you get your balls back as well as hang them by theirs.
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Rob Talkington

This stuff breaks my heart. HEre Jeff works his Butt off to aquire these snakes (Which WERE NOT CHEAP). I sold Jeff a Spider, and a Mojave. To know that they are in the hands of crooks instead of a quality guy like Jeff makes me SOOOO mad. I hope they catch them and I hope they do it Quick. Jeff worked soo hard at getting them up to breeding size. I know all that time May seem waisted to you now Jeff. I'm totally sorry. Jeff paid his hard earned money and someone comes in and STEALS them for free. What a disgrace to our society. Jeff, if there is anything we can do to help, please let us know. Keep your head up. That is easier said then done. Jeremy Stone

Perhaps if you have photos of these animals before you sold them, and we could distribute those photos. Spiders are fairly distinct, and I'm sure we could ID one from a photo. Then maybe we can track them down.

I don't know, just trying to think of ways to help.

>>I came home today to find my house trashed and my ball python collection gone. If you know ANYTHING please contact me ASAP. The police got some prints so I will have to wait for that. These were taken mid-day today in Anaheim, CA.
>>A partial list of what is missing:
>>spider, pieds, ghosts, pastels, mojave and many hets and normals.
>>Please contact me at poolfxr@adelphia.net with info or call (714) 296-4694.
>>REWARD!!!!
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Rob Talkington

I have known Jeff for a about a year now and I too know how hard he has worked to get his collection to where it was. It is absolutely sad to see that there are people this greedy out there to take something that is NOT RIGHTFULLY THEIRS and something they cannot absolutetly understand the value of because THEY DID NOT WORK HARD to get them themselves. Hang in there Jeff! Karma works in mysterious ways. I don't have a ton yet to pitch in but please count me in for some normal females (we all can use these) for the reward.

PS. I would post some pics of those animals as other have said so we can all keep an eye out.

----Glenn

I hope they find the jerk(s) who did this and you get your collection back. That really sucks.
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JMHO, FWIW, YMMV.