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So, what do you do when the wife kills your son's snake?

sfaoldguy

sfaoldguy

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My wife fumigates every few months and this time she missed the viv with my son's diamondback watersnake. The results were a dead snake. I tried to console Andrew and look on the bright side and told him we would disect it later. His response, "No, that's ok. I will just hold him and pet him. He can be my petting snake." *holds back tears* Later that night my wife walked in on him crying over the death of one of his snakes. She promised to buy him a snake to replace it.

The lightbulb shot on in my head and I beat her to the punch and used this as a perfect excuse to buy a redtail. Well, my son loves the new snake he has named Redtail of all things lol.

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*choking back his own tears*..............a very nice ending. unfortunately things happen. glad everything is good now.
 
Thanks for the empathy. I let my son hold and pet this snake anytime he wants to except for the day he is fed and the day after. I really thaught it would have gotten old to him, but hasn't. He tells me he wants to be a zoologist. That is why we were going to dissect the other one.

Here is a pic of the other day when I took Andew, his sister Laura, and little brother Joshua to meet my zoology professor and check out his collection of Arthropoda (collection consists of about 1 million!!! specimens). Dr. Gibson allowed us into the research lab where jars, boxes, and about any other container you could think of was full of Arthropoda ready and being identified and sorted.
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Thanks again for the response,
John
 
Why couldnt my parents have been that involved with my interests? Your kids are truely lucky.
 
DaemoNox said:
Why couldnt my parents have been that involved with my interests? Your kids are truely lucky.
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My parents were not involved with my interests either. They made me be in sports and the band, but then only came one time when I played.

Since we didn't get that involvement from our parents, I think it makes us aware of just how important it is to our children. I look around at my fellow students at SFA and envy those that had a good foundation from their childhood which supports what they are doing now in college.

This is such an important issue, I think I might make a post of some ideas to help parents to discover their childs interests and how they can be involved with those interests.
 
My parents weren't too involved in my animal collecting interests, but fortunately they didn't hinder me, either. I was great at smuggling some new catch home from the cabin, where it would be tolerated until the next trip up there to be released. I brought home countless baby everythings to raise and release, and Mom even did some bottle feeding while I was at school. They provided every animal book I ever wanted, and put up with my road kill taxidermy phase gracefully.

I'm sorry about your boy's snake. That's heartbreaking that he wanted to keep it just to hold. I'm happy that Redtail is easing the hurt.

Nanci
 
Nanci said:
My parents weren't too involved in my animal collecting interests, but fortunately they didn't hinder me, either. I was great at smuggling some new catch home from the cabin, where it would be tolerated until the next trip up there to be released. I brought home countless baby everythings to raise and release, and Mom even did some bottle feeding while I was at school. They provided every animal book I ever wanted, and put up with my road kill taxidermy phase gracefully.

I'm sorry about your boy's snake. That's heartbreaking that he wanted to keep it just to hold. I'm happy that Redtail is easing the hurt.

Nanci
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Thanks for the post. It sounds like you actually had some pretty good parents. I never braught home much when I was a kid, but my son sure does. Everything from Black Widow spiders to platyhelminthes. I think I might have to draw the line at the "road kill taxidermy" lol. I just got an image of animal carcuses with wheel tracks across them hanging all over my son's wall LOL.
 
tricksterpup said:
I just want to know why your Wife feels a need to fumigate every few months?
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A few years ago we lived in an old house with roaches. Ever since then, whether we have them or not, she fumigates. She really hates roaches LOL.
 
My Eastern Box Turtle _loves_ those huge roaches! Now I'm excited when I can catch one in the house, because I know he will be so happy.

Yup, if you live in the south, you have to have some sort of pest control. The company I use used to come in the house, and do outside, too, but a couple years ago they switched to just making a "barrier" outside- and it seems to work pretty well. Keeps the Asian (flying, small) roaches way down, and keeps the ants under control. I hate ants.

Nanci
 
From what I have been told by an exterminator the best way to get rid of Roaches and other bugs are Centipeds. yep.. he said he had a shed loaded with them. Released a few in there and the roaches were gone. The centipeds will hunt down all the roaches and then leave when there is no food. :D

Its a safe alternative to have and use in the house. I get antsy around chemicals since I used to do Reef tanks. No chems floating in my house. Plus I have had other pets die from those chemicals. Unless its a huge infestation, I can deal with bugs. Plus I have seen plenty centipeds in my basement. I think its due to the cricket escapes I have here from my lizard tanks.
 
I used to have a three toed box turtle that loved it when we would find him a roach too. I don't know about the centipedes. Those things scare me more than the roaches lol. It may be a good natural alternative to chemical solutions though. *shivers from all this talk about roaches and centipedes*
 
I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your son's snake, it's tough to lose a pet no matter what age you are. It's good to know that he's happy with the new snake though, and I think it wonderful that you take such an active interest in your children and what they are interested in.

My mother used to be upset with me bringing home animals and she drew the line at snakes, so that's why I have so many snakes now... *weg* Keeps the mother from coming over to complain about what is wrong with me! lol...

Great looking redtail btw..

Jenn
 
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