Seamus Haley
Big Game Hunter
... Yet.
It really irks me when I see a situation, or am informed of a situation where it's obvious that someone got ripped off and ripped off hard by a real scumbucket... But because I wasn't involved in the transaction, it's not my place to throw a BOI post up about it.
It's worse of course when it's someone I personally know who gets ripped off and then doesn't want to talk about it because they've been flim-flammed into silence by a fast talking dirtball, but it's irritating even when it's someone I have never met in person.
I've seen it more than a few times, especially online, where there seem to be a great many people who are just innocently naive and like to send their money/animals to the criminals in the hobby... They enter a chatroom or an internet forum later and describe their transaction but seem unwilling to take real action against the person who ripped them off, if they even realize they were taken.
The most reccent example of this, and the one that got me kinda ticked off this morning, happened when a dealer traded a kid... a KID, a normally smart kid, but still limited experience... His crappy, non-feeding, blister diseased, scale rotting, massively underweight Candoia for the kid's immaculate PET cornsnake... Sure, the kid was willing to trade and thought he was getting rarer snakes for his common one, but the dealer gave him animals which are about 95% likely to die within the next month and a half.
Once again, I can't make it my business to the point of starting a BOI thread but I was hoping that if a few responses were posted here with the thoughts of other dealers, breeders and hobbiests, it might convince the ripee to let it be known who took him.
In the following picture, there are three points circled which are of particular interest, a second picture will be added in a reply post so that people can see the snakes without the red circles covering parts.
Area 1- A large spot of puckered and raised scales, one of many but a particularly distinct one. Without seeing the animal in person, an exact cause is unknown, but it certainly LOOKS like the snake has been sitting in a substrate which is both too wet and potentially containing feces... probably the feces of another snake, neither of these look like they've had a meal in their life.
Area 2- Like area one, just another more distinct patch of the puckered scales which seem to cover the entire snake.
Area 3- The second snake, specifically illustrating a point where the snake's girth can be seen. Yes, neonate candoia can be tough to get feeding and they grow out a bit before they become the fat, pissy little guys we all enjoy but this snake has clearly LOST weight since it was dropped, since brand new hatchlings are not even that skinny.
It really irks me when I see a situation, or am informed of a situation where it's obvious that someone got ripped off and ripped off hard by a real scumbucket... But because I wasn't involved in the transaction, it's not my place to throw a BOI post up about it.
It's worse of course when it's someone I personally know who gets ripped off and then doesn't want to talk about it because they've been flim-flammed into silence by a fast talking dirtball, but it's irritating even when it's someone I have never met in person.
I've seen it more than a few times, especially online, where there seem to be a great many people who are just innocently naive and like to send their money/animals to the criminals in the hobby... They enter a chatroom or an internet forum later and describe their transaction but seem unwilling to take real action against the person who ripped them off, if they even realize they were taken.
The most reccent example of this, and the one that got me kinda ticked off this morning, happened when a dealer traded a kid... a KID, a normally smart kid, but still limited experience... His crappy, non-feeding, blister diseased, scale rotting, massively underweight Candoia for the kid's immaculate PET cornsnake... Sure, the kid was willing to trade and thought he was getting rarer snakes for his common one, but the dealer gave him animals which are about 95% likely to die within the next month and a half.
Once again, I can't make it my business to the point of starting a BOI thread but I was hoping that if a few responses were posted here with the thoughts of other dealers, breeders and hobbiests, it might convince the ripee to let it be known who took him.
In the following picture, there are three points circled which are of particular interest, a second picture will be added in a reply post so that people can see the snakes without the red circles covering parts.
Area 1- A large spot of puckered and raised scales, one of many but a particularly distinct one. Without seeing the animal in person, an exact cause is unknown, but it certainly LOOKS like the snake has been sitting in a substrate which is both too wet and potentially containing feces... probably the feces of another snake, neither of these look like they've had a meal in their life.
Area 2- Like area one, just another more distinct patch of the puckered scales which seem to cover the entire snake.
Area 3- The second snake, specifically illustrating a point where the snake's girth can be seen. Yes, neonate candoia can be tough to get feeding and they grow out a bit before they become the fat, pissy little guys we all enjoy but this snake has clearly LOST weight since it was dropped, since brand new hatchlings are not even that skinny.
