Why, why WHY???

[SizzleDog]

I want her! Grrrrr why did my SO have to bet me that I couldn't go a year without getting another snake? WHY????

http://desmoines.craigslist.org/pet/799832901.html

I'm not getting her ( ) because I can't let SO win this bet. I just can't. But you'd bet that in... 363 days I'll be getting another snake.

Please, someone tell me why I shouldn't get her, so I feel better about it. She's probably a horrible feeder, she's probably a feisty biter, she's probably been powerfed so she'll only live another 6 months anyway.... grrrargh I WANT SNAKE!

*sigh*

 

[PWCorgi]

Please, someone tell me why I shouldn't get her

Because if I can't have another dog, then you're not allowed to have another snake. It's only fair.

 

[SizzleDog]

*sigh* Okayyy....

we'll have to have a "New Pet Aquisition Party" in a year or so.

 

[noludoru]

What's powerfeeding?

Sorry to threadjack..

 

[Romy]

What exactly is so bad about SO winning the bet? I think she's worth it......

Is it possible to power feed a bp? lol. We always had the exact opposite problem with our bp rescues. One went on a 2 year hunger strike.

Power feeding is when someone wants to get a female up to breeding size really really fast, and usually a year or two ahead of when it is healthy for her to be bred, so they cram her with food. What ends up happening is the snake will grow big enough, but it's really hard on their organs. That combined with early breeding tends to take years off their lives.

 

[iheartsammy]

What's powerfeeding?

Sorry to threadjack..

Powerfeeding is when people stuff their snakes with extra mice/rats by basically forcing them to eat it by placing it in their mouths while their still trying to swollow(wtfsp?) it's previous prey item..Causes the snake to grow very large very quickly, but also shortens their lifespan I'd say by over half..Most powerfed snakes only live 5-6 years from what I've heard =/


Anywayss..Sorry sizzle.. I feel you pain. Me and my mom were on craigslist today looking for fish tanks and I found this guy..

http://sacramento.craigslist.org/for/798917232.html

He's even located in my city! I squirmed a bit

 

[SizzleDog]

Romy and Sammy are right - powerfeeding is basically "stuffing" a snake to ge tit up to size quickly. From what I've heard, BPs that are powerfed only live to be 5-6 years old... and they *should* live up to 25-30 years. A waste of a life, fueled by impatience and greed.

 

[iheartsammy]

Powerfeeding is sick.

My older sister had a bf(now an ex bf thank god) who powerfed his snake. I told him it wasn't healthy for it and he freakin flipped me off!..wtf?!?! I was baffled and..well..I literally looked like this --->

I was being nice about it too..

 

[shadowfacedanes]

Hmmm, she's probably a man-eater (Or uh, 6th grader eater) and that's why the teacher is giving her away. Yeah, that's it. For your own safety, you should just say no.

Did that work?

At least there was no picture. That always makes it 10X worse for me.

 

[Romy]

Romy and Sammy are right - powerfeeding is basically "stuffing" a snake to ge tit up to size quickly. From what I've heard, BPs that are powerfed only live to be 5-6 years old... and they *should* live up to 25-30 years. A waste of a life, fueled by impatience and greed.

They might even live a whole lot longer than that. I think it was Ralph Davis who was saying that he still has some wild caught adults that he bought in the 1970's. That would make them at the very least 40+ years old, because they were adults when they were captured. He said that they still have the same size clutches every year, same fertility rate for the males and females. Same great muscle tone and appetite. Once in a while an individual will go on a 1-2 year hunger strike for no apparent reason and then start eating again with no weight loss. That was the way our rescue dude/dudette was. It scared me to death. I weighed him once every two weeks to make sure he wasn't starving, but he never lost more than 75 grams, and sometimes he gained it back so I think it was water. If you think about it, an animal capable of slowing down their metabolism on that kind of scale is probably working with an incredibly long lifespan.

 

[Zoom]

A 2 year hunger strike??? Geee-man-ee Christmas!

At least it would save on feeding costs.

 

[Romy]

A 2 year hunger strike??? Geee-man-ee Christmas!

At least it would save on feeding costs.

You're telling me! When he finally did start eating, he would only eat live adult gerbils. Those suckers are like, $8-9 each! Try feeding one of those every week. Then the stupid manager at Petco noticed I was buying a gerbil every week and got suspicious, and somehow tried to tell me that the gerbil's lives were more precious than the feeder mice, and she put me on a "do not sell to" list. That made me mad. I tried breeding gerbils for him, but they just ate each other (ugh). Then the perfect home for him came along. It was a dude who raised feeder rodents and had a near unlimited supply of gerbils. He was in a good position to gradually wean him off gerbils and onto rats or something more readily available. Talk about kharma. That snake though, was the perfect example of why you should never, ever, EVER buy a wild caught animal. *pulls out hair*

 

[Sweet72947]

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