Marnie's Snakes

[Lisa4john]

Good idea, do you have a hard time with bedding fall out that way though?

Is this a top entry enclosure? If so, is it a slide top?
If it is you could make the side the bottom so that the lid slides up.
Then you will have a front opening enclosure, that might make them more calm.
Just an idea.

[guidofatherof5]

Yes, sometimes. You also need to be very careful that the lid seals at the bottom and there are no spaces for snake to escape or get caught it. I have a glue gun with black gun stick so filling the areas look nice. The glue is harmless when dry.

[EasternGirl]

The enclosure has front sliding glass doors. So...that isn't the problem. I don't think she realizes that my hands are connected to the rest of me. Because it's odd...she will come to the glass if I put my face up to the tank and give me the sweetest look...she always comes to see me. But if I put my hand in...she goes after it. Day before yesterday, I was showing her my hand next to my face outside the tank...and I swear she had this look on her face like "Wait a minute...that scary thing I don't like goes with the face that I recognize?"...it was weird.

Oh I have already experienced the issue of everyone bringing me snakes. I have become the "snake person" in our neighborhood and most of our community. People think I'm a bit eccentric...but that is nothing new. And now, if someone finds a snake, they bring it to my house. I heard people saying that I have a snake rescue at one of my son's baseball games. I guess my rescue is up and running whether I am ready for it or not!

[mikem]

I'd like to do a rescue of sorts, but space is limited for me and I really only want to take on snakes I'm interested in working with. What's the plan if someone brings you a snake that's not a garter?

[Lisa4john]

Put a sign on the door, "I don't do snakes... well garters, that's another story. I don't do anything with or know anything about other breeds." True for me anyway...

[EasternGirl]

Well you know...I actually hadn't thought of that...and as far as I am concerned, my rescue is not actually up and running...which I am trying to tell people. When I am done nursing school...I will get a new house or I will have my basement done so that I can have space to have a real rescue. Then, people can bring me any snake they want and I will advertise that I will go to people's homes/yards to remove unwanted snakes. I will make it clear that I do not work with venomous. If someone were to bring me a venomous snake, I would relocate it to one of the many parks/wildlife areas around here. If someone were to bring me a snake that was not a garter now...I guess I would have to assess the situation. If they found it somewhere where it could be released back into that area and it wasn't cold, I would take it back to where it was found. If the snake needed to be kept inside until the cold weather passed, I would either take it...or take it to a lady I know that does wildlife rescue.

[EasternGirl]

So it seems that I taste delicious or something. Now not only is Cee Cee biting me, but Sadie took a strike at me, and Snapper bit me again...and Peanut took a nice bite of me the other day...and he has never bitten before. Either I am very yummy or I have really pissed off my snakes somehow. Sadie shed a nice perfect shed the other day. Ziggy is not doing well at all. She is breathing out of the side of her mouth...with an open mouth...and pretty lethargic. I put a heat lamp on her and increased the humidity in her tank. She seems to really like the heat...but I am not very hopeful. I hate feeling helpless like this. I simply cannot afford to take her to the vet.

[EasternGirl]

I have a bunch of new pics I would like to share:

P1050034.jpg Zeus getting ready to shed, sitting in his beloved skull hide...

P1050041.jpg Pretty Bella

P1190001.jpg Nothing as cute as a baby head poking out of the substrate....

Attachment 0P1210004.jpg Except for maybe a baby head poking out of some moss...

P1210007.jpg A Ziggy face...

[ProXimuS]

Super cute! Is Zeus one of Cee Cee's babies? Ziggy looks nice and perky in that picture too

[EasternGirl]

P1210008.jpg Little Joe and Perseus

P1210009.jpg A Perseus face...

P1210010.jpg Bella basking while relaxing on the stat probe...

P1210011.jpg My beautiful biting Cee Cee...

P1210012.jpg Sadie and Cee Cee cuddling...