hello again, y'all...
i brought norbert to the pet shop where i bought him for an examination and when i got in and took him out of his cage and told the guy at the desk that i thought he had mites this girl came up to me and said she was pretty sure the snake i had had a mite problem before he was purchased. how STUPID can you be? even if he DID, you don't, as an employee disclose that type of information to a customer. "oh, yea he had mites and we never treated him." i was kind of a bit fuming. the owner came up front and looked at him and said he didn't think it was mites, but he took him into the back and gave him a warm bath and tried to remove the black spots with a q-tip. they wouldn't come off, he said mites would rub right off. he concluded that norbert is getting ready to shed. okay, fine...he doesn't have mites, good, dandy, yippee skippee....BUT...
something has got to be the matter with him. he got SOOOOO freaked out when i went to pick him up last night, hissing and nipping at me and when i did get hold of him he'd continue to try to bite. he's been hiding under his heating pad a lot lately or under his water dish. i do handle him regularly and he never flips out like he did last night. i don't really know how to determine if a snake is about to shed, i just know about the eyes kinda glazing over which they appear to have done...when snakes are about to shed do they tend to try to defend themselves more like he did last night?
PS- Please someone answer this question...i paid $89.00 for my albino snow corn...how much should one expect to spend on this particular kind? i've seen them at petco for $45, but i'd never buy a snake there, PETCO is evil. i've seen albino snow corns online for less than $60.
i brought norbert to the pet shop where i bought him for an examination and when i got in and took him out of his cage and told the guy at the desk that i thought he had mites this girl came up to me and said she was pretty sure the snake i had had a mite problem before he was purchased. how STUPID can you be? even if he DID, you don't, as an employee disclose that type of information to a customer. "oh, yea he had mites and we never treated him." i was kind of a bit fuming. the owner came up front and looked at him and said he didn't think it was mites, but he took him into the back and gave him a warm bath and tried to remove the black spots with a q-tip. they wouldn't come off, he said mites would rub right off. he concluded that norbert is getting ready to shed. okay, fine...he doesn't have mites, good, dandy, yippee skippee....BUT...
something has got to be the matter with him. he got SOOOOO freaked out when i went to pick him up last night, hissing and nipping at me and when i did get hold of him he'd continue to try to bite. he's been hiding under his heating pad a lot lately or under his water dish. i do handle him regularly and he never flips out like he did last night. i don't really know how to determine if a snake is about to shed, i just know about the eyes kinda glazing over which they appear to have done...when snakes are about to shed do they tend to try to defend themselves more like he did last night?
PS- Please someone answer this question...i paid $89.00 for my albino snow corn...how much should one expect to spend on this particular kind? i've seen them at petco for $45, but i'd never buy a snake there, PETCO is evil. i've seen albino snow corns online for less than $60.
