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Totally FREAK'IN sucks!

scottsquatch

scottsquatch

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I know its gonna sound like I'm complaining...Thats because I AM! I was at the hospital for a week and when I came home the house had a nasty odor in the air. This odor seemed heavier in the snake room and I panicked thinking a snake had died. After checking everybody twice, I couldn't find anything dead. Over the last couple days, the odor was getting a little stronger every day. We made sure all the garbages were emptied their were no dirty dishes and all the laundry was done. STILL the smell was lingering. Well....today I went to feed the collection and I open the chest freezer. WHAM! I was hit with an odor like none I've ever smelled before ( including bloated dead bodies in Iraq) My wife ran to the bathroom vomiting just from it wafting into the living room from the snake room. Somehow (still don't know) the freezer had gotton unplugged and everything in it, mainly mice and meat, had turned into a soupy gorey sludge. The worst part is that I'm out of work this month and don't have any monry to buy more mice. I estimate that over 200 dollars of mice were lost alone. Not including all my venison, homemade brats, and various other meat. I wanted to cry and break stuff at the same time. What a loss. Notonly that, but my snakes are gonna be mighty hungry for a couple weeks. Gonna see if I can at least bum a few dozen pinks from a friend so the hatchlings don't starve. Man, what a lousy day! OK, I'm done venting. thanks for listening.
 
omg how horrible!! I am so very sorry to hear you lost everything in your freezer... I been there myself :( I wish I was closer... I would try to help you out as much as I could... my mice are due to start dropping pinks soon and I have a few bigger ones... includeing rat pups... I wish I could help you. I hope you are able to get some from your friend!! Again, I am sorry to hear about this :(
 
Ugh, that has got to be the most disgusting smell ever! I am so sorry you had to go through that. I probably would have cried at all the spoiled meat, all that wasted human and snake food :( :(
 
That really, really sucks... I've only ever had problems with a freezer once - and it was really my mothers. Losing the mice for the snakes, as well as your own food, makes it even worse though.

I know I lost 7 pregnant mice last month (only days from dropping large litters) and I thought I was going to cry - but losing all the frozen stuff is ten times worse I think. Hope your friend will give you a bit of help for the hatchlings.

Jenn
 
Been there done that! I worked for a Reptile Store out of Tampa a long time ago and our freezer went down and no one noticed. Man.....was that disgusting! I was the new guy in the store and it was my job to clean it out.....horrible! Sucks you lost all your mice. Hope you can get by for a little while. Good luck.
 
Sorry to hear that, Scott. I haven't had a problem of that magnitude, but I did miss a single tray of mice in a shipment, and left it in the shipping box at room temps. I spent days checking and re-checking the snakes that were racked near the box before I figured it out. Nasty.

If you want to place a small mouse order with the vendor of your choice, I can PayPal them and you can repay me when your situation stabilizes. Let me know...
 
Roy Munson said:
If you want to place a small mouse order with the vendor of your choice, I can PayPal them and you can repay me when your situation stabilizes. Let me know...
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Same thing here- let me know. I could buy you a couple trays of something.

Nanci
 
Roy Munson said:
Sorry to hear that, Scott. I haven't had a problem of that magnitude, but I did miss a single tray of mice in a shipment, and left it in the shipping box at room temps. I spent days checking and re-checking the snakes that were racked near the box before I figured it out. Nasty.

If you want to place a small mouse order with the vendor of your choice, I can PayPal them and you can repay me when your situation stabilizes. Let me know...
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I've been in your situation myself. You can count me in on the mouse order as well. It may be better if we can PayPal you so you can place one good-size order and only one shipping charge. And you don't have to worry about paying me back...Merry Christmas in October!
 
Roy Munson said:
If you want to place a small mouse order with the vendor of your choice, I can PayPal them and you can repay me when your situation stabilizes.
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Post your PayPal email address and I'll chip in a ten spot. I'm facing selling off all of my adults in the next month or so because of finance changes, but ten bucks won't make or break me. Like Susan said, don't sweat paying it back - it isn't that much money and I get to feel like the good guy for a day. :)
 
Roy Munson said:
Sorry to hear that, Scott. I haven't had a problem of that magnitude, but I did miss a single tray of mice in a shipment, and left it in the shipping box at room temps. I spent days checking and re-checking the snakes that were racked near the box before I figured it out. Nasty.
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Just had that happen with my last mouse order. One tray of hoppers was under the paper.... Ya...Nasty. :puke01:
 
My wife had this happen to her during the heat of Phoenix summer with one of the lab freezers while they were doing construction on the building. So the heat of Phoenix summer was inside as well as out. The construction workers cut the electricity to the outlets controlling one of the freezers. An entire chest freezer full of non-human animal parts reached temperatures that were hot to the touch before anyone noticed (because people were not working in this part of the building during the construction). Poor thing had to clean out the whole chest freezer full of dripping, disgusting, putrid mess, and sort the primate parts from the non-primate parts during clean-up. Primate and non-primates are disposed of differently, so she couldn't just throw the bags out, she had to look in each one and poke around to figure out what it had once been. She didn't have to shell out any bucks, but she did have to spend many hours of that day doing it. I don't know how she didn't toss her cookies. I'm sure I would have, because bad smells really get to me, and I'm pretty sure that smelled pretty bad. :puke01:
 
You'll probably have to replace the freezer too.
That stink don't come out!

My (brilliant) husband unplugged the 2nd floor fridge this summer since we didn't have tenants and forgot to pull out the ham they had left in the freezer. A week later I go up to clean the place and took about an hour to locate the dead smell coming from the apartment. It was so hot up there the ham had rotted and created some sort of gassy reaction because it was making gurgling/hissing noises.

We has another fridge on the 2nd floor that had rotting food in it when we bought the house that we gave to my husband's brother. Two years of it sitting in a shed with the doors open and it still stinks. He might have scrapped it by now.
 
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