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What once was lost, HAS BEEN FOUND!

carnivorouszoo

carnivorouszoo

Crazy Critter Lady
Ok so I got majorly depressed when Jewel, my 09 Amel Mot het Caramel Stripe escaped last week. I decided to sell out because I was so crushed. I kept getting contacted by people curious about them but no one actually buying any. I see why! The fates KNEW Jewel was not gone! Today as we got a late start on the day we came out to the living room where we keep our feeder rack and my husband turns to me after feeding the mice and says, hey honey when did you put a snake in here?

WHAT???

I fell down crying so greatful. It was my lovely precious Jewel, gorging herself on one of the feeder colonies! I managed to save the buck and she doesn't have a mark on her thank goodness!

In celebration of her return I will not be selling my snakes and I will be picking up some boards to build my rack to aid in preventing further escapes!

:dancer::dancer::dancer::dancer::dancer::dancer:
 
So Glad to hear the winds of good fortune have blown your way!!!
Also, I'm happy to hear that one of the regular names on this forum will be here for a while longer!! :cheers:
 
YAY!!!! That's wonderful news!! I'm glad things worked out in the end with the snakes you have and the snake you've now gotten a second chance with!!! ;D
 
I am really glad...truly.
But I don't understand.....
What does a single snake have to do with whether or not you keep other snakes? Just because she was gone you decided you didn't like your others and now that she is back you like them again?
 
I have found escapees 2 or even 3 weeks later. Many people here have had snakes go AWOL even longer.
 
I thought she was gone longer as well. A week is not very long. Im glad you found her though.

My "heart" snake has been stolen from me by someone on this forum and I will likely never get him back, but that didnt cause me to get rid of all the snakes in my care. Instead, I think I healed better and faster having them to remind me that he was the one that got me into this hobby in the first place. He will always be special to me, but so are the other snakes I have currently.
 
The same person that took Angela's heart snake Crue also took 4 of mine.....2 that I had raised from teeny tiny worms, 1 that was one of the last that Rich Z ever bred, and one that I bought as an older boy but saw his picture and fell in love with him at first sight. He was also the first snake my 75 year old mother had ever held.
I probably will never see them again. There is a good chance they aren't even alive anymore.....
But that does not make me value my others less. It makes me treasure them even more.
 
someone stole your snakes?! mercy im sorry i really am..

also congrats on finding that sneaky little snake!
 
neiman07 said:
someone stole your snakes?! mercy im sorry i really am..

also congrats on finding that sneaky little snake!
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Yes, in Angela's case highly respected and trusted member of the forum that we had all met irl offered to take a few of her snakes for her while she moved due to a job change.

Same person took 4 of mine on a temp breeding loan. Was on here every single day. Talked to all of us on a daily basis. Then one day did not come online. Does not return calls, nothing. Dropped off the face of the earth. Is unreachable. Fine one day, gone the next.
 
I am so happy that your snake is back and that you are not getting out of the hobby.

starsevol said:
Yes, in Angela's case highly respected and trusted member of the forum that we had all met irl offered to take a few of her snakes for her while she moved due to a job change.

Same person took 4 of mine on a temp breeding loan. Was on here every single day. Talked to all of us on a daily basis. Then one day did not come online. Does not return calls, nothing. Dropped off the face of the earth. Is unreachable. Fine one day, gone the next.
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OMGosh that is horrible. My biggest fear with breeding loans was something happening to someone's snake and not having the money to pay vets bill or other way around. Not someone you trust to stealing your snakes. I am sorry to both of you.
 
Do you need to change your signature now???

Time to toughen up! Wait till your last minute replacement clutch of first-ever-in-the-US F2's slugs out completely. Wait till you hatch your first deformed hatchling. Wait till you have to euth a non-feeder. I have cried so many tears because of my love for cornsnakes.

But the joys make it all worth it. The first successful mating!! The first beautiful white fertile clutch. The first pippy. Seeing them all go off to new homes. Seeing the few that you kept grow huge and thrive. Someday, seeing the grandpippies!! Someday...
 
starsevol said:
I am really glad...truly.
But I don't understand.....
What does a single snake have to do with whether or not you keep other snakes? Just because she was gone you decided you didn't like your others and now that she is back you like them again?
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Of course you do not understand, they aren't your collection. I am saying this with the uttmost respect and kindness so please do not read it as snotty or rude or anything ok? Jewel is my pride, my joy, my favorite and when she disappeared it broke me. I was in bed for 2 days crying. It was like losing one of my own children. Looking at the others I wondered who was next? Could I take it? I belittled myself that it was my fault that she would have been better off with someone else. Its like finding the child that got lost in the woods on a camping trip. Rejoicing is going on, I cry now from joy rather than sorrow. Of course they can stay they no longer remind me of her or drive me to wishing I had never gotten them because I was so horrid I lost Jewel.

Anyone who has not had such an intense bond with another living thing only to have it just disapear or die would not understand what I went through. Its ok though because one day you will understand.
 
ratsncorns said:
I thought she was gone longer as well. A week is not very long. Im glad you found her though.

My "heart" snake has been stolen from me by someone on this forum and I will likely never get him back, but that didnt cause me to get rid of all the snakes in my care. Instead, I think I healed better and faster having them to remind me that he was the one that got me into this hobby in the first place. He will always be special to me, but so are the other snakes I have currently.
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I'm so sorry I am not as hardy or whatever as you two. It tore me in half to have her gone like that. In the past I have lost others and NEVER found ANY of them. The home I lived in was torn down so now it is certain I will never find them. Yes a week is not very long but I traced her to outside, found poops and a shed stuck in a hole I had not known was there leading to outside where I found the other end sticking out the side of my house. So as far as I knew she was LONG gone. Please have a heart, some people are more sensative than that. . . my goodness . . .
 
Nanci said:
Do you need to change your signature now???

Time to toughen up! Wait till you have to euth a non-feeder. I have cried so many tears because of my love for cornsnakes.
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I had to euth 3 non-feeders last year they got so thin I could count the spine segments. It was difficult but when Jewel disappeared something broke inside me and it was the worst pain I have ever felt. I am working on taking even MORE precautions to ensure this NEVER happens again. Sorry I am such a wuss in your eyes. . . ..
 
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