the blood male in question was a large 4ft, 18 month old male blood in great health when i shipped it to john. Here are pictures of it just before shipping.
as you can see in the pics, he is of good size weight and in the second pic he had just swallowed a nice medium rat.
I sent john that male blood around the 18th of december. On the 9th of January i got an email from john about some of the pics i posted of his snakes he had sent me, one being a sunglow and the other a coral albino, he commented on how nice the pics were and asked me what type of camera i used and i responded with that info. During that time, he never mentioned any issues what so ever regarding the blood male. This leads me to believe that he was happy with the animal. He actually never contacted me to say there was any problems, I had called him to ask about the DOB on the Sunglow male several months later and at that time he mentioned when he first got it(the blood male) it ate once and then regurged its second meal, and he didnt feel it was a big deal and didnt contact me about it and went on to breed it he said. When he said that i told him, if you had a problem with the animal, you should have contacted me much sooner and that i would have no reponsibility for any issues not brought forth immediately upon having them. In other words i told him I would love to make him a happy customer and do what i could to keep him happy but the fact that he ignored my terms of sale about this kind of specific situations that i couldnt do much other than assist him to save the animals life since he stated after the breeding trial he could not get the animal to feed.
Now lets review this a little and kind of make a timeline of facts.
I sent him his animal on the 18th of December 2006.
I spoke to him via email on January 9th 2007 and at that time he didnt mention anything about any problems.
I then did not have any contact with him until march or april (i am looking up this info on my phone records and will get the exact date asap) which was when i called him for the DOB.
During the time john had the animal, he says it ate and regurged. He also states he went ahead and tried breeding the animal regardless of the stated regurge. Anyone that is willing to put an animal in a breeding program right after a regurge is not looking out for the well being of the animal at all and is taking full responsiblity for what ever becomes of the animal.
Now after speaking to john on the phone several times in april I told him if he wanted me to try and get the animal feeding I would certainly try my best since he had contacted me saying he had tried every method he could to get the animal back on feed after breeding with no luck. Me being the kind hearted individual I am and simply trying to keep a customer happy and look out for the well being of the animal, i told him he could ship the animal back to me in order for me to assist in getting the animal turned around as john was pretty sure it was hopeless at that point, he had tried several things like Tylan and Flagyl and had no luck. I also believe john had fecal exams done on the animal and the results came back negative, no parasites or anything abnormal.
The day i got the blood boa from John, it was in horrible shape and resembled a tree boa more than anything else it was extrememly thin and was very lethargic only moving around to hiss and strike. That day it ate 2 fuzzy hopper mice and then never ate another meal after that. when i tried to feed it it would just strike and then leave the food alone. After about 3 weeks of unuccessful attempts at getting him to eat, I tried forcing a small mouse in order to get something in its belly and it regurged that meal the next day and then two days later it passed away.
The only things i am guilty of here is trying to help out a customer with an animal he made poor choices with. John should have contacted me immediately when the first sign of any problems showed up and he did not. Then if the snake really regurged, he should have been more interested in makeing sure it was feeding again before placing it in a breeding program where it definately wont feed if something is wrong with it. Then waiting for 4 months before saying hey i have a problem is just way out of control, I ask you breeders out there, would you offer a refund to someone that bought a snake and was perfectly happy to your knowledge until 4 months later after trying to breed the snake and then wants a refund?
Mark Miller
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