EXTREMELY P.Oed Right Now!

[snakeman]

You should put his name on here or at least the ad.There are a lot of people poaching in FL just to make money.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

that is so disgusting. That poor, beautiful creature. I am so sorry you have to go through all of this. I hope I never, ever, EVER have to go through anything even remotely close to that!

Rat that son of a gun out! He has no dignity. People like that are just in it for the money. Makes me sick. I love my snakes so much it makes me tear up thinking that someone would treat a snake like that.

[Mommy2many]

Isn't there someone/something you can report this guy to? First of all, the quality of shipping that poor creature. Second of all, the carrier he chose. If it was already deceased, then I'm sure someone somewhere would have a health issue raised with sending a decomposing snake thru a courier and/or mail service.

It is one thing to have something happen enroute but an entirely different situation to knowingly send something like that thru the mail.

People like that make it harder for everyone else to do business and ship reptiles/animals/amphibians etc.

[pitbulllady]

You should put his name on here or at least the ad.There are a lot of people poaching in FL just to make money.

The guy isn't in Florida. He's in the Midwest. The snake originally belonged to one of the guys from whom I bought the pair of Red-Bellies and the little orangey Banded last week. He had owned this snake long-term before selling it to this guy in the Midwest, and had told me how impressive and how gentle she was, so I really was looking forward to getting her, but not like this! I just emailed him the pictures, since he wanted to see proof that the snake was dead. The pictures include a large number of Green-Bottle blow flies that had quickly descended on the carcass. Those are not attracted to freshly dead meat, only to advanced decomposing flesh, unlike the house flies that usually get there first. This animal was the size of a fairly large Blood Python, shipped in a box that was only 12 x 12 inches square. I still have the box, though it's outside under a shed because I can't stand to smell it. I had to change clothes immediately after taking the photos because that smell was all in them, and a whole can of Lysol later I still can't get it out of the house, since I made the mistake of opening the box in the kitchen. From the tone of the guy's email, he sounded like he didn't believe me about the snake being that decayed and insists it was alive when he shipped it. It takes a long time for an animal that big to get in that state.

pitbulllady

[Mommy2many]

I am so sorry to hear that first, you had to receive an expected animal like that and second, that the animal had to endure that mistreatment, even if it was after death.