OMG Craigslist has snake-for-sale horrors, too *UPDATE #46: Yeah, I took her home :D

Oh, this poor thing! :frowning: A spine should NEVER be ANYWHERE NEAR this prominent on a corn snake. And corns are such easy feeders; this is like letting an air fern miniature horse reduce down to skin and bones. Babies can be picky, sure, but this is an adult–they don’t get to be that size with insanely picky eating habits. Added ignorance along the lines of saying a horse is 15.5 hands, or calling an appaloosa a pinto–the snake is advertised as an albino. Um
nope. It’s a snow corn, very obviously so. Snows are amelanistic/albino AND anerythristic/devoid of reds, but the yellows remain; amels/albinos are very red, orange, and yellow.

We’re overstocked, otherwise I’d go take a look. Still, it kills me to see a snake THAT thin. :cry:

Oh come on! You must be able to fit one more. They barely take up any room, so long and skinny. Particularly this one, in the skinny department. I didn’t know anything about snakes until you, and now you’ve got me feeling brokenhearted over one
 :frowning:

Hubby is surprisingly not “Oh hell no.” Hmm.

:smiley:

Yay!

Meanwhile, wanna buy a COMPLETELY ILLEGAL albino diamondback rattlesnake? :eek: WHO THE HECK ADVERTISES THIS ON CRAIGSLIST?? My forehead hurts from hitting the desk that hard.

Edited to say–I stand corrected. The law is weird. there is no limit to capturing/killing rattlesnakes, and there is no law about owning a western diamondback. (Red diamond rattlesnakes are illegal.)

Still, I think I’ll pass.

Snakes have spines???

Yes, snakes have spines

Heaven help me. I just sent out an email checking if the snake was available and what the age and gender is.

Hubby is wondering if profit can be made rehabbing and reselling the snake, but I think we’d break even. But hey, fun project, and I’d feel good getting the skinny thing back to health. And we still have a freezer full of mice to help out with that. :slight_smile:

Jingles that the snake lands well.

This just proves there are idiots of all types out there. Not limited to horses and dogs.

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Oh come on! You must be able to fit one more. They barely take up any room, so long and skinny. Particularly this one, in the skinny department. I didn’t know anything about snakes until you, and now you’ve got me feeling brokenhearted over one
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This. I hate snakes, but since I’ve been following your posts on the baby corn snakes, I’ve come to learn a lot more about them. This one certainly doesn’t deserve to starve to death or end up in a worse situation.

Oh, no! A hungry thin snake!

I have always been pro-snake, just to even out the more common anti-snake sentiment floating around. But your education on snakes has really opened my eyes. Before that, I wouldn’t have known a fat snake from a thin one.

Can’t you rationalize this as “too many frozen dead mice clogging up the freezer, gotta get a snake to eat 'em up”?

So when I was googling to figure out what you meant about the albino rattler, I found this
 http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=101&de=1028753

Do people really keep cobras like this in captivity in the US? That feels like a bad idea. And I like snakes, I do
but


The things you can find on Craigslist WOW

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So when I was googling to figure out what you meant about the albino rattler, I found this
 http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=101&de=1028753

Do people really keep cobras like this in captivity in the US? That feels like a bad idea. And I like snakes, I do
but
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Yep. One just got loose in California. Killed a dog, maybe? Intact venom glands. Let me see if I can find an article about it.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/venomous-albino-cobra-loose-days-southern-california/story?id=25238316

Simkie, that snake was found in my hometown, so of course my I got some Facebook teasing. :wink: But I do NOT do venomous reptiles, NOPE NOPE NOPE. That cobra was a leucistic (like in horses, true albinism doesn’t occur in cobras) and is worth approximately a CRAP TON of money. Someone had to have been REALLY ticked off to have lost it, and the local herp community almost certainly was out there trying to get to it first. Incidentally, the dog was not killed or even envenomed, which started a rumor in the herp world that s/he’d had their venom sacs removed. I haven’t heard confirmation on that, though.

Only people with required permits are legally allowed to own venomous snakes, but, uh
well, like in a lot of things, it doesn’t really stop people from skipping past that part. For example
this guy selling his false water cobra. He said his roommate doesn’t allow pets–I’m guessing his roommate doesn’t allow cobras.

Only people with required permits are legally allowed to own venomous snakes, but, uh
well, like in a lot of things, it doesn’t really stop people from skipping past that part. For example
this guy selling his false water cobra. He said his roommate doesn’t allow pets–I’m guessing his roommate doesn’t allow cobras.

At least the false water cobra envenomates by chewing? Still not something I would let crawl all over my hand. Again, I LIKE snakes but yikes!

I went and searched for snakes on my craigslist after seeing this post last night. And feeling empowered with the ability to recognize a thin snake if I saw one. I’m happy to say that the Seattle area corn snakes seem to be doing quite well. Including this tempting little beauty

https://seattle.craigslist.org/kit/for/4685923729.html

Though I must say that if I find the urge to get a corn snake overwhelming, I think I already know who I’ll contact!

Ah, thanks for the clarification on the dog, Lauruffian :slight_smile: I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention when all that was going down–just remembered that there was a dog involved in there somewhere!

I can’t even describe the intense willies I get with the pics of that guy HOLDING the false water cobra in the CL ad. Holy shit!

i take it you snake-o-philes are still following Mia? :wink: :lol:

https://twitter.com/bronxzooscobra

What is the deal with owning a ‘hot’ snake? The corns are cute BTW.:smiley:

There is a huge garden snake in my flower bed named George. He does rodent control but if the DH comes across him/her he will be screaming like a little girl.:eek: Sad, but true.