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The Advice that morons think it's fun to give to new snake owners

nehpets1

nehpets1

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Just thought that someone might be interested in this.

Hurray for the stupid people.

moddy said:
okay about feeding your snake. my brother has had a ball python for several years. While he was on his mission and first married my parents had it. My dad found that if he took a frozen chicken leg and thawed it out and then warmed it in hot water that "Fred" would eat it just as well as live mice. My dad liked this choice better becasue they were easier to come by than live mice, some pet stores here wouldn't sell mice to my mom when they found out she was going to feed them to a snake. Oh yeah, my brother said that the best way to feed them is to put the snake in a pillow case and drop the food into the pillow case, so they don't associate your hand coming in the cage with being fed. But my dad wasn't up to touching Fred so he used tonges to put the chicken leg in the cage.
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this is from a mormon blog posting from last year, and I just found it while look for the "FIRST EVER CORN SNAKE BREED SHOW" haughtily mentioned in another recent post.

Never found the corn snake breed show, but i did find more bad advice for snake owners
 
OMG! What an idiot. Why, why, why, do people post advice when they don't know anything. Geesh!

Hey, this would be a great thread to include quotes from others too. Allright then, I challenge y'all to find more bad advice quotes! Woo hoo!

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Candachan said:
Mormons or morons? :crazy02:
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mormon.

The blog was a mormon mother that had gotten a new snake for her kids.

What I posted was a comment on her blog w/ advice on how to feed it.
 
Some of my friends told me not to get a snake because they stink so bad.

Turns out they have been going to the local disgusting reptile shop where they also raise rabbits and mice in piles of their own feces. They thought the overpowering ammonia stench was coming from the snakes.

I have another one that I'm sure people will disagree with me on. I hate when people tell others to soak a snake in warm water to induce it to poo. :nope: You would poo too if I raised your entire body temperature by 30 or 40 degrees in a matter of a couple of seconds. Nobody ever says to soak in 85 degree water. They say "warm". Go get some warm water and then measure the temperature. Makes me sad.
 
It's hard when you see bad information about snake husbandry and care. The best thing to do is to very politely suggest some good caresheets and good messageboards for the specific snake.

At least the chicken-leg-eating-snake was getting some calcium, but still not getting a balanced diet that comes from whole rodent prey. =P
 
Never found the corn snake breed show
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:-offtopic If you Google "reptile fan club corn snake breed show", it'll be the first link listed (if you mean the UK one). Next one is this October.
 
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bitsy said:
:-offtopic If you Google "reptile fan club corn snake breed show", it'll be the first link listed (if you mean the UK one). Next one is this October.
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I looked at their "Breed standards" and did not like what I saw. While there standards for selectively bred morphs were fine, I felt there standards for recessive genetic morphs were very limiting. There is just too much natural variation in the colors of both normal and recessive genetic morphs for their "Breed Standards" to work.
 
I can't say that I've gotten any bad advice, per se, because I've been so paranoid about any advice that I have been given that I've fact checked everything at least 2-3 times...rarely have I taken anything at face value, and anything "bad" has been immediately dismissed. One thing that I was told by my principal (I teach...) was that having a snake would be a bad idea because sooner or later the "primal instinct" in the animal would take over & it'd simply go buck-wild on a person, biting & constricting & so forth...after I saw a 3-year old girl carry around her corn snake on her neck that was born the same day as she (her father breeds corns...) at my local herp society mtg, I dismissed anything he said right away. As long as the animal is cared for, content & feels safe & secure, I can't fathom that it'd have any reason or desire to "go buck-wild", aside from any genetic fluke or disease going on...
 
I felt there standards for recessive genetic morphs were very limiting
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I'm sure nobody would mind you giving your opinion - you're still registered to post over there.
 
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