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ArchCarlos

ArchCarlos

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Hey everyone, simple question really. Sadly when your corn passes away to the scaly heavens, do you simple throw it in the garbage? Have a proper burial? Or preserved it in a glass box like those skeleton snake models? Just curious what everyone do when their friendly snake leaves us :(
 
I have a proper burial. If the death was under suspicious circumstances (like no apparent reason), I have had a necropsy done first.
 
I've only had one death so far, but I wrapped him in tissue paper and put him in a little cardboard box and buried him.
 
Hrrrrmmmmm... It depends. If it is a snake I was really close to.. I'd probably either bury them (like I did with my first snake), or have them cremated...

If it was a snake I wasn't overly attached to..... Well. I won't go into every much detail, but I did buy dermestid beetles for a reason.
 
For me, my first snake would have a proper burial. If I wasn't attached to my others, I would digest it for science reasons, display the exo skeleton on a frame if I could, or simply bury it for my respect of reptiles.
 
ArchCarlos said:
For me, my first snake would have a proper burial. If I wasn't attached to my others, I would digest it for science reasons, display the exo skeleton on a frame if I could, or simply bury it for my respect of reptiles.
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I hope you mean "dissect" LOL :)
 
I do a viking funeral for good breeders that have been with me a long time or pets, everbody else gets put in a paper bag and buried. Far away from the house that way the dogs can not get to the buried snakes body.
 
All you people make me feel like im cold-hearted hah. I've never buried or preserved an animal.

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I have a little pet cemetary in a corner of the yard. It holds two corns, 4 hamsters and 3 cats. They each have a flagstone (well, not the hamsters) over their grave. I dig a hole and curl them up in the hole and cover them, nothing else in them.
 
Several years back, one of our cats died, and my daughter was upset that we didn't mummify her so she'd be honored in the afterlife (we were studying Ancient Egypt at the time). I'd thought she'd probably forgotten about it, but after we got Wadjet, she said "When Wadjet dies, we'll mummify HER, right?"

Hoping the snake has a long, happy life-enough that my DD has forgotten any plans involving washing powder, salt, and miles of gauze.....

We've buried two cats and two frogs in our backyard so far.
 
Alli_Draggy said:
Several years back, one of our cats died, and my daughter was upset that we didn't mummify her so she'd be honored in the afterlife (we were studying Ancient Egypt at the time). I'd thought she'd probably forgotten about it, but after we got Wadjet, she said "When Wadjet dies, we'll mummify HER, right?"

Hoping the snake has a long, happy life-enough that my DD has forgotten any plans involving washing powder, salt, and miles of gauze.....

We've buried two cats and two frogs in our backyard so far.
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Oh, wishing Wadjet a VERY long life!!!
 
AliCat37 said:
Hrrrrmmmmm... It depends. If it is a snake I was really close to.. I'd probably either bury them (like I did with my first snake), or have them cremated...

If it was a snake I wasn't overly attached to..... Well. I won't go into every much detail, but I did buy dermestid beetles for a reason.
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Michelle, when the beetles "do their thing", does the skeleton stay intact for the most part or does it need to be re-articulated to be posed?

I have seen it done with birds or mammals but never a snake.
 
smigon said:
Michelle, when the beetles "do their thing", does the skeleton stay intact for the most part or does it need to be re-articulated to be posed?

I have seen it done with birds or mammals but never a snake.
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It depends on when you remove it. The snakes are easy to keep together because they don't have any legs and what nots that can fall off or get lost. What I do for the smaller critters, if I want to keep them, is put them on a little paper plate, so if anything does fall off, I can find them again.
 
Sorry ArchCarlos, but I am intrigued! :-offtopic

AliCat37 said:
It depends on when you remove it. The snakes are easy to keep together because they don't have any legs and what nots that can fall off or get lost. What I do for the smaller critters, if I want to keep them, is put them on a little paper plate, so if anything does fall off, I can find them again.
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"legs and what nots". Haw! That made me laugh! So do you do a drop of glue at every connection to hold them together? I should probably Google this, but I still am fascinated that you do this.
 
When my first snake passed, I regret to say that I panicked. She ended up in a paper bag and buried in the yard. I regret that... I'd have loved to do a Viking funeral for her, but I'm beyond hesitant to exhume her now. I don't want to see her...however she must look. The second snake I lost was a petco rescue that didn't make it (smooth green snake, couldn't get it to eat). She passed within a week of purchase, within her 15 day health guarantee, so I returned her to the store.

From now on, though, my snakes well get some kind of ritual burial. Only seems right.
 
smigon said:
Sorry ArchCarlos, but I am intrigued! :-offtopic



"legs and what nots". Haw! That made me laugh! So do you do a drop of glue at every connection to hold them together? I should probably Google this, but I still am fascinated that you do this.
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It's all good! That's why we have this forum to freely ask and talk about anything relating to our scaly friends!! :D
 
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