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I am absolutely horrified at what human error can be responsible for. I recently received an absolutely gorgeous DH Sunglow female. She was so small. Apparently too small, for I never saw her when I put a larger 2'-2.5' boa in her enclosure.
Now, apparently, I will never see her again.
I do believe the larger boa injested her. I didn't even think they do that. It has never been an issue for me before. But, there is no other way to explain her disappearance. He is fatter than he should be after eating the f/t weanling rat; fatter than others his size that ate the same thing.
Now, I am about to go in and mark all the cages with appropriate info on who resides within their walls. Something I should have done before, I just didn't think I had enough boas to warrant such a measure. How wrong I was.
It was a stupid, thoughtless, and costly mistake. So much grief could have been saved if I had not been in such a hurry. So many times in life there are no second chances. Slow down, think things through, and make the first ones count.
I'm sorry little dear.
I'm sorry Ted.
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Very unfortunate!!!
It's good to air our mistakes. We are all human and make them.
Sorry for your loss.
John
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"To be the best..........You must lose your mind."

im sory for the loss of your baby sun glow.

for your loss Laura. She was a beautiful animal and as many of us know it is horrible to lose an animal particularly when we feel responsible when something may have been prevented. Keeping animals is always a learning curve and anyone who thinks they know it all should get real and admit no one's perfect because we're only human after all. Again, I'm sorry for your unfortunate loss.

(because I left the cage open).It worked its way into a container housing several week old striped Alterna that were worth several grand at that time.He ate every one but one of them.

I once ate at Kentucky Fried Chicken,didn't wash my hands and picked up a 7 foot carpet that commenced to wrap and bite the living crap out of my wrist.I couldn't run out to the faucet outside because the neighbors were outside, and with blood flowing copiously from a vein and I didn't feel that this would be a real good time to introduce them to my harmless snakes,so I had to grin and bear it for about 10 minutes until he decided I wasn't a meal.

I once had my new glasses fall off of my head and being blinder than a bat,managed to slam the head of a gravid Brazilian Rainbow in the cage and basically decapitate her.She hated it.

Believe me,I am just beginning.We all do things that seem ridiculous at the time due to carelessness.