Need some advice on a situation involving Alea Rodriguez.

Apparently this is a boi issue, didn't know, posted in another section asking for advice.

So I have been watching 6 snakes for a "friend", the 7th she gave me and I made her confirm several times just in case something like this happened.

Well the other day she blew up in the group I have on facebook, and it appears it was just a rant and had nothing to do with my group but took it out on my group members and banned several people for saying the post was unnecessary and extremely vulgar and it was.

All that is relevant and you will see it in the screen shots I post after this. But while I was trying to figure out what happened thinking someone angered her in my group and after finding nothing started adding people back and lifting unjust bans she calls me a back stabber and a bad friend. Then threatens to ruin my life if I keep her snakes, which I never said I would. So I post the screen shots on fb to protect myself from anything she may say, and several people told me that by her actions the snakes are mine but that's not what I want.

She has been buying and taking in new reptiles while I'm still caring for her collection instead of buying the caging she needs for these animals. It was a slap in the face each time but let it go, she was my friend.

But after all hell breaks loose and she threatens me, etc I still tried to be civil and talk things out, but told her she will be paying for the care of the snakes from now on (is that right of me to do?) I was doing a favor for a friend, now it's even more of a burden caring for someone's snakes that had snapped on me, threatened me, and considers me a bad friend and no longer a friend.

Let the screen shots speak for them selves, notice how I say several times I DO NOT want to keep her snakes yet in the last message she unblocked me for she says I'm keeping them and then basically relinquished ownership? Of them.

I cannot ship them back until spring, it is far too cold where I live now, and where she lives. I won't risk the snakes lives.

She has blocked me 3 times from messaging, the first time was before the "are you ready to have a civil conversation" I noticed she unblocked me so I sent that message. She then blocked be after trying to insult me with my family, unblocked to send that last message then blocked me again. So I can't even communicate with her about the snakes either way, which to me the last message looks like she's relinquishing ownership. I don't want to keep them but I don't want to send them back right now as they'll most likely die from it being in the 20s over night and should the package get hold up in holiday shipping they will surely die even with a heat pack. But I also know she doesn't have the caging for these animals either. She has 10 and 20 gallon tanks and some plastic bins for her new kings, balls, scorpions, and some spiders all of which she bought instead of buying the appropriate caging for the snakes I have, which some told me they consider abandonment.

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I just went threw and read the screen shots and realized I missed a few words, I apologize I hope that doesn't earn me an infraction, again, I thought I got them all but missed a couple...

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I believe you missed one of the nasties, I would say up to now their care was on you but now different story. I have shipped dart frogs in freezing temps with no issues, with the 60+ and 70+ hour heat packs even a day delay is not a problem, you just need a sound styro. I would get some good shipping supplies and tell her they are on there way less an animal to cover the shipping (depending on their value).
Too bad she did not sleep on it a couple of days, usually 3 or 4 days later these things tend to be "I way over reacted". Seems you are being blamed for something, too bad you don't know what and my hunch maybe stress from non animal activity. Good luck.

Originally Posted by markpulawski

I believe you missed one of the nasties, I would say up to now their care was on you but now different story. I have shipped dart frogs in freezing temps with no issues, with the 60+ and 70+ hour heat packs even a day delay is not a problem, you just need a sound styro. I would get some good shipping supplies and tell her they are on there way less an animal to cover the shipping (depending on their value).
Too bad she did not sleep on it a couple of days, usually 3 or 4 days later these things tend to be "I way over reacted". Seems you are being blamed for something, too bad you don't know what and my hunch maybe stress from non animal activity. Good luck.

She doesn't have cages for them. I'm not going to send them when she doesn't have enclosures for them or the money to buy them. I cannot live with sending them where they won't have cages, or if they get lost or held up and they die. I've never shipped before so I do not want to risk it.

I also omitted the screen shot of a personal issue of hers for her privacy, which seems to be where all this is coming from but that doesn't excuse the way she's treating me either way.

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