If your looking to take on A additional snake, but wan't to rescue one check online for classifieds, or perhaps post a ad looking for A snake, not quite as open ended, just state you care about animals, and would prefer to take in one who needs a new home rather then from a breeder or pet store.

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thats a good idea too. taking in select snakes one at a time as I have space and money to afford any vet trips that might be needed would be a good and safe way to go about it.

thanks.

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i'd be better off opening my own small zoo.

absolutely,, I agree, a lot of people do small scale rescue, one or two here and there,, without them, that would be one or two more possibly dead animals. If you think about how many people do that, it adds up thats for sure.

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I have sucker tattood on my forehead

lol, was considering putting an ad up to adopt a snake, and I found that somebody else had a young ball python up for adoption.

picked him up two days ago and seems quite healthy except for the fact that he was kept on dry aspen bedding so he's not shedding correctly due to the low humidity. he's now on coco fiber bedding like my other one so that shouldn't be an issue.

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i'd be better off opening my own small zoo.

Aspen can be used as long as you spray it down periodically.
Thats what I use on both of mine.

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Merlin,
What's Life Without A Little Magic!

The biggest recommendation I can give you as a recent exotic rescuer, get together with some people that are willing to help, spend time planning who can take what as far as rescues, and what the limit of your care is. I know I can only handle animals that can stay in "manageable" cages, I could not take another iguana for example, or a large python. However I have a guy that I can call that has a large out building on his farm that he converted to a herp room for large reptiles.

The other HUGE thing is to get a local humane society involved, I work with the local shelter that has a resident vet that is able to see all the animals being fostered for FREE. Vet bills are the number one reason rescues go under, you can try to get around going to a vet, but then you risk the health of the animal; as well as risk your rescue being shut down by a local SPCA (in other words DO NOT TRY THIS). The other advantage to linking up with a local shelter is that you need not advertise, they will take care of that for you. When something comes in that is fitting to your foster or rescue situation, they will call you, they can put the animals on their website and put up pictures in their office so you don't have random people calling you and coming by.

BE PREPARED TO SAY NO, you can't save all of them and you only hurt them by biting off more than you can chew. You also have to say no to people that you don't think can take proper care of the animals.

LEARN TO LOVE AND LET GO, the animals that are ideal pets will adopt out easily, the ones with issues are yours forever. More than likely with reptiles you will only get problem pets, and they live a long time.

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