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Unfortunatley, I have to move out of my apartment which allows me to have snakes into one which does not allow any animals >< Therefore, I need to find a home for my juvenile burmese, and I thought the best way might be to advertise online and ship to someone. However, I am not sure where to get the heat packs or containers to ship my snake in. Do they carry these at the post office or UPS center? Information would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Shipping is easy. Small rubbermaid containers that can be found at any food store are good for shipping snakes in. Or you could ship the snake in a pillow case tied and taped up at the top. A heat pack could be bought at a food store as well.

You can only ship through DHL, FedEx or UPS....

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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
http://www.freewebs.com/mikesnake

I would just like to say something that you said, you said they dont allow any animals, i do not think that is 100% true, normally when they say that they mean no dogs,cats, or birds but snakes and reptiles as well as fish live in cages which cannot dammage the apartment or house.They may just fear snakes and say no, but i dont think that they mean snakes, which cannot cause a household problem unless it gets loose which hopefully willnot happen.
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1.0 Albino Corn "Lucky"
1.0 Snow Corn "Snow"
0.0.1 Southern Ringneck "Lazy"
1.0 Green Amevia "Gizard"

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1.0 Albino Corn "Lucky"
1.0 Snow Corn "Snow"
0.0.1 Southern Ringneck "Lazy"
1.0 Green Amevia "Gizard"

Many shippers that will carry appropriately packaged live animals specifically refuse to carry snakes.

In fact, I don't know if ANY of the overnight carriers allow snakes, period. Most people ship without divulging the true nature of the cargo. The problem is this means the shipper has no liability should the cargo get lost or arrive dead.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

When I moved to Houston in 1999, the apartment where I was moving had a policy against any animals except dogs under 25 pounds and cats. They might have allowed fish, but they specifically told me that I couldn't have a snake. I don't remember anything about birds.

Of course, you're exactly right about the differences between snakes and the other animals. Snakes don't make noise as other animals do and don't leave droppings around the courtyards. Likewise, if they get outside, they usually go into the woods somewhere and disappear. On the other hand, when some idiot lets his cat run free, the cat ends up having kittens on someone's porch and leaving a big mess behind.

I was very happy to get out of that apartment and out of Houston entirely.

Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

LOL thanks for that story Bill, If a place isn't snake friendly then they don't like me... What are some snake friendly states? Are there any?

I haven't been in the game long enough to consider that question. I hope to stay in Louisiana for 17 more years until I retire, but at that point, I'll be looking for a snake-friendly place to retire.

If I had to guess, I believe that Nevada would be pretty snake-friendly. Nevada seems to be a good place where people mind their own business and don't try to mind their neighbors' business. They're also helped by a climate in which non-native species would generally have a hard time surviving. They might have rules about some of the poisonous snakes like cobras, but they probably aren't worried about Burmese pythons breeding in the desert.

Otherwise, I'd have a hard time figuring out a place where they'd be more or less snake-friendly.

In any case, I congratulate you on not being in a position where you might have to move to Houston. I didn't like being in Houston and wouldn't have liked it any better if they had let me keep a snake.

Bill

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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

Yes nevada might be the PEFECT place for a snake "friendly" state, I'm going to use that term loosely and in qoute because there are probably none besides florida and I don't like it there to much. Also nevada (correct me if I'm wrong) is the only state that allows prostitution.... So in theory snakes will be allowed if protstitution is

I didn't list Florida because I doubt that Florida will remain snake-friendly if it ever was. As Florida has more problems with alien reptiles breeding in the Everglades, the legislature will likely pass laws making reptile ownership more difficult. Of course, like most laws of that kind, these laws will be a huge nuisance to people responsible enough to try to follow them and will do almost nothing to make the irresponsible people act responsibly.

Nevada doesn't have any state laws against prostitution, but each county in Nevada sets its own laws. If I remember correctly, prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas. I suspect that this prohibition has nothing to do with concerns about public health, morality, or organized crime possibly controlling the trade (which is actually less likely if something is legal). Instead, I suspect that the city leaders just don't want people in their rooms giving money to a prostitute when they could be losing that money much faster in the casinos. The legal prostitution is most likely in smaller towns that don't have the money or infrastructure to have big gambling establishments. Prostitution is a business that doesn't require much infrastructure. Yes, that's a cynical view of things, but I tend to be cynical sometimes.

Strangely enough, I've heard that the laws against prostitution are less restrictive in other states than one might imagine. I read somewhere that there's a state in the New England area where prostitution is legal as long as everything is done indoors. If the any part of the transaction occurs outside, then the police can arrest either party. If not, the laws don't cover it.

In any case, I'm less worried about blue laws than I am about reptile laws. I know that Louisiana recently passed a law requiring licenses to own certain kinds of snakes.

Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.