Info Eddie Markward

[vikingroyalpythons]

Country girl hit the bail on the head the animals are sickening and anyone who allows them to be in that condition whether they caused it or not is deplorable

 

[Pasodama]

Those poor snakes.
Has Eddie Markward been notified of this thread?

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[Lucille]

As some of you know, my husband and I entered into a partnership with Eddie Markward at the beginning of December 2014. We agreed to terms that both parties found fair. Eddie agreed to take in our collection and care for them until we were able to have them again. My husband is active duty military and got reassigned. Due to the move and us expecting our first child, we felt it would be easier if our animals went to Eddie and would benefit from sharing males/females. After an unfortunate event and learning our animals were very small for their age, we decided to head out to Georgia to pick them up. Upon seeing our animals, I was in shock and at a loss for words. I will leave this here and answer any questions that I need to. I hope that the pictures can speak for themselves.

First pictures are of one of my 2010 female fires. weighed 808g when I picked her up. She was 1300-1400g when he got her in Dec 2014

Congratulations on the new baby.
I'm glad you have your collection back. I totally understand that you are upset that your collection appears to be mite infested and starving.
I hope Eddie will post here, but I cannot even think of any set of circumstances that would explain his apparent neglect over a considerable period of time. If he was unable to fulfill his side of the agreement, he could have, at any time, notified you.
Had you been sending him $200/month for food and care as the screenshot in post #16 details?

 

[meowmeowkazoo]

Those poor snakes.
Has Eddie Markward been notified of this thread?

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He has. He's been posting on Facebook about the situation, but he is aware of the thread here. He has deleted some of his posts on Facebook (like the one below) after the fact, so perhaps that is why he is avoiding a site where his posts cannot be deleted.

 

[Pasodama]

Thanks Sarah.
This is sad.
A Ball Python does not lose so much weight in just a matter of weeks ... unless he means weeks that add up to months.
Also, a heater/T-stat failure does not cause such a significant weight loss ... unless he did not fix the problem and just did not feed those snakes while they went, for a good time period, without heat.
Mites are easy to eradicate if you know what you are doing and actually put forth the effort to do it.
Am not understanding his stated reasons for all this.

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[Pasodama]

Also, wonder what his reason is for the stunted growth of the youngsters, plus.

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[Lucille]

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He managed to visit, but not post. I can understand that, there is nothing Eddie can say to excuse the neglect shown.
Not only did he do his partners dirty, he looks to have completely failed the critters in his care

 

[meowmeowkazoo]

Ideally (to me) if he were to make reparations, he would begin by returning the $200 per month he accepted from her. He would then pay additional money to cover medical care, the time that will be spent getting them back to health, and the general damage caused to her animals.

I don't believe Eddie is completely without conscience. I hope that he will make efforts to repair what damage he can.

 

[Lucille]

As some of you know, my husband and I entered into a partnership with Eddie Markward at the beginning of December 2014.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/fiduciary-duties-partnerships.html

Ideally (to me) if he were to make reparations, he would begin by returning the $200 per month he accepted from her. He would then pay additional money to cover medical care, the time that will be spent getting them back to health, and the general damage caused to her animals.

I agree. As a business partner, he has responsibilities and duties to his partners.
This thread which he is aware of, will detail his responses (or lack thereof) and, I believe his responses and reparations will have a bearing on any future potential subsequent business transactions of his.

 

[chongorojo]

Out of curiosity, Charlene, (I assme you picked them up) what did the rest of the animals look like as far as health and husbandry? Was everything being neglected or was it just a few animals?

 

[Guy Castro]

I don't believe Eddie is completely without conscience.

He is completely without conscience in this instance! From what I see,he's a total loser!

 

[snakepornstar]

Wow, I know Eddie personally and I am completely blown away by this situation. Several of us from GA, have discussed this issue, and we hope for the best for both parties. Sometimes people have the best intentions, but those same intentions can become overwhelming and asking get for help is a thorn in their pride... best wishes to everyone.

 

[bcr229]

OP I think it would also help if we knew:
- How many snakes you left with Eddie,
- When the t-stat/heater malfunction actually happened, and when you found out about it,
- How many of your snakes were lost due to the t-stat/heater malfunction, and how many survived but stopped eating due to heat-related injuries, and
- How many snakes you got back, and the condition of all of them now.

Also in the screenshot on the prior page Eddie is claiming your snakes had mites when they arrived. Did you have mites in your collection when the snakes went to Eddie?

 

[charlene.dourty]

Well, for starters, where are the details of the agreement? What were the terms? What was the arrangement? Did you check in on the snakes, inquire about how they were doing? If so, what was the response? Were you kept informed about issues regarding mites, illness, overheating from tstat failure, etc? When did he receive the animals? When did you get them back? Is this all of them? Were there more? If so, where are they and what was their condition when you got them back?

That'll do for now, I think.

As someone else posted, the terms are in that screen shot. The arrangement was just as stated in that screen shot. I was not able to check on my snakes physically as we now live in Texas and Eddie is in Georgia. Both my husband and I inquired on at least a weekly basis about our collection and how things were going. For the most part, Eddie informed us things were well. He expressed some issues in the first month with not being fully prepared but said things were getting better and he was getting into a routine. He never really gave us any reason to doubt the care our animals were receiving but he also was very bad about getting us updated pictures and weights of any of the animals that we inquired about. He kept coming up with excuses as to why he hadn't yet. Whether it had been because he forgot, went out of town, work, or church stuff. As far as we knew, he got the mites under control as there was no more mention of them. He informed us of the overheat the morning after it happen. Both my husband and I woke up to PM from him on facebook. He got the animals the second week in December of 2014. I got them back just last Monday. We dropped off 34.96 in ball pythons and I picked up 20.69. Our entire collection was at Eddie's so we got no other animals back except what was still at his place when I arrived to pick them all up.

 

[charlene.dourty]

Had you been sending him $200/month for food and care as the screenshot in post #16 details?

We paid Eddie all but three months. First month was December and we arranged that he would take a couple of our extra girls that I was planning on selling as trade for feeder. The second month was March. I don't recall discussing the reason with Eddie or him asking where the 200 was but I was having martial issues at the time and I'm sure it just got forgotten. The last month was June. We had some unexpected truck repairs that our feeder money went to and I explained this to Eddie and he let us know it was okay.

Im attaching two screen shots of conversations between Eddie and I about the trade of animals for feeders and the other with him saying okay about us being short in June.

 

[charlene.dourty]

Out of curiosity, Charlene, (I assme you picked them up) what did the rest of the animals look like as far as health and husbandry? Was everything being neglected or was it just a few animals?

I didn't go through all his tubs. From what I saw of his animals which were only the ones that were at the front of the tubs, they looked to be in similar condition to mine. He had just cleaned all the tubs before I arrived and everyone was on fresh cypress.

 

[Crawford_Constrictors2013]

I currently have 6 of these animals in my possession for fear they wouldn't make the 2 day trip from Missouri to El Paso, TX.
The snakes I picked up were starved and badly dehydrated. Many consumed half of their water within 12 hours, and at least a full dish in 24+.

Mites were on a few of the animals, a couple had them pretty bad, which pictures I will post below will show that.









Fortunately 4 of the 6 animals haven had meals for me twice.

 

[Crawford_Constrictors2013]

This shows how much water some of them have drank within the first 12+ hours. As you can see, mites are in the water too.

 

[Crawford_Constrictors2013]

One of the extremely skinny animals. Has drank half a cup of water thus far (ARS couple sized) and has had 2 meals with me. Still extremely weak.

 

[Crawford_Constrictors2013]

Pictures speak for themselves