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My living room is getting pretty "snaky" after 3 years of having 3 corns in it. I was thinking about using "Febreze" on the wall to wall carpet. Anybody have any opinions/facts as to being a safe or unsafe practice? I & my nose thanks you!!

I don't have a Febreeze bottle in front of me to read the label right now, but a couple of years ago I read on the label to NOT get it in contact with pets!!!! (dogs & cats most likely). Unless they changed some ingredients recently, Febreeze is BAD NEWS around pets.

Just my opinion.

Kerby...

I tend to be VERY cautious about any kind of chemical presence around my animals. Probably overly cautious in some cases...but I do have healthy snakes! If you feel that you MUST treat your carpet (after all...YOU live there, too!)....Get the snakes in a different room, open the windows, treat your carpet, and don't bring your snakes back into the room for perhaps several days. Again, that seems pretty conservative, but that's how I like to lean when it comes to my snakes. I am rewarded by healthy, robust animals. Duffy

Febreeze is synonym with Death in the bird world.. People have had rooms full of birds die when using Febreeze in ANOTHER room near them.. Something in it makes their lungs and airsacks basically melt, and drop dead instantly.. Febreeze isn't even allowed in my house.. heh.
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Hello, my name is Brie.. And i'm an addict..

DarkWave Exotics

Currently keeping:
1.2 southern scrub pythons
1.0 reticulated python
1.0 albino burmese python
1.2 jungle carpet pythons
1.0 irian jaya carpet python
0.1 sumatran blood python
3.0 ball pythons
0.1 green anaconda
1.2 emerald tree boas
1.2 colombian redtail boas
1.0 sonoran boa
1.2 albino and normal whitewater rosyboas
1.0 cancun boa
0.1 sunbeam snake
1.1 false water cobras
2.2 greyband kingsnakes
1.1 albino and het chinese beauty snakes
1.2 taiwan beauties
2.2 cornsnakes(Opal, lavender, okeetee, reverse okeetee)
2.1 albino and multi het emory ratsnakes
0.1 albino checkered gartersnake
1.1 california kingsnakes
0.0.2 tiger leg monkey tree frogs
3 sandfire bearded dragons
0.1 nile monitor
1.0 savannah monitor

and lots of bugs, furry critters, fish and birds

As long as you don't let the snakes get into contact with it while it's still wet, there isn't likely to be a problem. It will dry quickly. You can always take the tanks out of the room, and bring them back in once it does. It is probably a lot safer than spraying strong smelling air fresheners.

If you don't let your snakes crawl through the carpeting, you have even less to worry about.

I was afraid to use it when the rumours about dogs dying from it, etc. was going around. Not true. We have dogs and now use Febreeze often, the animals are healthy as they come. We just don't go around spraying it onto them

You just have to exercise your common sense, like anything, around animals.

I would say it would hurt anything.....however, just a warning to anyone that owns birds....febreeze is NOT good for birds.
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KRISTI Mommy 2 Autumn Rose (daughter) 2 1/2 yrs
Reign Michael(son) 6 months
Duncan (Budgie) Passed away 5/11/2004...Love you duncan
Asia (Juvie Leopard Gecko)
Russia ( Baby Albino Cornsnake)
OH, And Ron the geckos #1 FAN!!! (owned by BlizzardGecko)

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KRISTI Mommy 2 Autumn Rose (daughter) 2 1/2 yrs
Reign Michael(son) 6 months
Duncan (Budgie) Passed away 5/11/2004...Love you duncan
Asia (Juvie Leopard Gecko)
Russia ( Baby Albino Cornsnake)
OH, And Ron the geckos #1 FAN!!! (owned by BlizzardGecko)

I never spray inside the cages but after the weekly cleaning of the snake room, I open up the windows and spray the stuff around with no problems at all. Been doing so for over a year now.
good luck
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Hopkins Holesale Herps
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