Wow, this is all really ridiculous. Glad to hear you were able to refund the jerk and find out he was lying about the reports.
I have a spider female just about 3000 grams and I feed a medium every 2 weeks. But she was on the same diet yours is on when she was that size and they dont look much different
I’m sorry you had to deal with this. Theres some ridiculous people out there. I have been very scared of selling my girl for this reason. Shes a 13 egg layer and I’m afraid that’s all people will care about.
Just had a group of guys come visit in person since they were interested in purchasing a snake from me, and I ended up selling Gwen to them.
They all seemed like good people and I talked to them about this situation, and they said they’d be keeping her on the one small a week feeding schedule.
They might also be buying one of her babies at the local expo I’m vending this coming Saturday, so I’m happy.
Often some of the best customers are the ones you do not sell to. I agree that many people have different feeding regimens and I try to not judge others. It’s obvious you dodged a bullet here and kudos for sticking to your core beliefs!
I agree I think you made the right decision! Every reptile is different. I don’t think they had any right to ask you to up the feed or change anything. Hopefully that person will leave you alone now
So far I have not heard anything else from the person in question, so I think I’m good to go.
I normally do not care too much about how people feed their own snakes, since it’s their decision in the end, but if someone is clearly overfeeding/powerfeeding an animal for personal gain then they might as well go take a flying leap. People like that have no place in this hobby.
My animals’ health and well-being will always come first, no matter how much money you try and throw in my face.
I think it just proves they are into breeding for the money and not giving a sh*t about the animals health. Id refund the money and not sell it to them. Wait for somebody else thats interested.
@jngriffin Yep, that’s what I did. Ended up selling her to someone local that loves her and is keeping her on the same feeding routine I had her on.
@kevin77
I feed my females 1 small a week.
He asked me to bump her up to 2 smalls a week and offered to pay extra for the feeders.
Decided that 2 smalls wasn’t enough so wanted me to bump her up to 2 mediums a week (I assume anyways, 2 smalls would have still been more than 1 medium)
I’m not quite big enough to have my own facility, so our collection is in our house. I rarely have anyone request to visit in person so I’m not entirely worried about it.
We have an attached garage that was converted into a regular room before we moved in, and so it’s being used as the main reptile room. There’s a side door that leads to the outside, so we can have people come in without having them coming into the main part of the house.
We’re getting ready to purchase a wireless camera system and likely some kind of alarm system, so if anyone does try to break in to steal they’ll be more likely to get caught.
Tell them she’s regurgitating them or something, give refund and keep her. Sell her off to a more responsible person and owner. She seems to be breeding weight already to me.
Yeah, I don’t know why people keep missing that… perhaps giving your insight without reading the entire thread isn’t quite the best way to contribute to the conversation
But I already refunded the person, blocked them after their rather childish response, and found her a new home with someone local. She’s doing great and has settled in well with her new family!
Can we know who, so we add them to a DNS list? Seriously. I feed all my girls a small rat weekly, even my 2500gm girls. Gwen looks great. Really happy you refunded and she went to someone else. Our animals are much loved pets, all 35 have names, get held and played with. A few of them go to the middle school every so often. I do not understand how people do not treat them like living breathing animals.
Sure thing, I can PM you the name. If anyone else wishes to know please PM me as well.
All of mine have names too, and I try to take them out as often as I can with how many I have. They’re all my babies and I really don’t get how people can treat them like they’re not actually living breathing creatures either.
I have a few that I have thought about letting go but I have had them to long and afraid that they won’t be taken care of well so they just will stay with me.
Yeah, that’s fair. The only reason I ultimately decided to let her go is because she’s a spider — I have nothing against the morph of course, it’s one of my favorites, but it’s hard to select pairings when I have so many spiders in my collection.
As of right now I have 4 females with spider that I’m raising up, 2
males with spider in my main collection, and 3 more males with spider that I’m not keeping. For reference, I have 30 ball pythons now in total.
That and I seem to be having a harder time selling the spider babies, not many people want to work with them or purchase them because of how badly stigmatized they are.
