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Inherited or Rescued, or ReRescued ...

gypsy1dragon Aug 12, 2008 12:34 AM

I was talking to my across the street neighbor who has like 30 reptiles, not just snakes, but including burmese, retic, dumerils, redtails and I don't know what else!

Anyway, she has know that I have quite a few corn snakes and had mentioned that I wanted to get 1 larger snake at the Daytona Beach Expo, but nothing that one person could not handle when it was grown. I was leaning towards a redtail or dumerils. Of course my son wants the giants, but I am not ready for that.

Anyway, she has rescued some of these animals and is out of room in her apartment and has given me a full grown redtail female, a pair of 3 ft dumerils and a dwarf retic, i think about 6 ft so far. Well, now my son has his retic, but hopefully it stays under 15 ft!

Up until tonight, the largest snake we have had is a ball python. I guess I can say they are re-rescued,lol.

Any tips, beyond common knowledge? Have already warned my son about letting them exercise only in certain closed rooms and only completey supervised. Don't want to lose a cat or something!

Sorry for the long post, and thanks for your input. I am excited but also cautious.
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1.2 Ghost Corns, Beetlejuice, Casper and Spooky
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1.1 Hypo het lavender, Rosy and Rocko
1.0 Anery, Goku
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Gypsy
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1.2 Ghost Corns, Beetlejuice, Casper and Spooky
1.1 Charcoal het pewter, Smokey and Flame
1.1 Hypo het lavender, Rosy and Rocko
1.0 Anery, Goku
0.1 Amel, Sunny
2.0 Tabby Cats, Daddycat and his son Brat
0.1 Australian Shepherd, Angel

Gypsy

Replies (1)

PBM Aug 14, 2008 05:06 PM

The Dumerils and Red tail should be pretty straight forward. The retic however...intelligent snakes with plenty of size(even the so-called dwarfs) to require complete respect, at all times! As far as the room to roam, I've had "tame" retics get flighty and sometimes down right defensive when going to pick them back up to put them away. Hope it all goes well.

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