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FOR ADOPTION IN NC: Young RTB and 2 Green Iguanas

SnakeLadyK

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Hello everyone!

We have 2 young green iguanas and a beautiful Red Tail Boa that need to find loving permanent homes. I'm currently on my own trying to care for everyone and I'm worried these guys aren't getting the attention they deserve.

Iguanas-
"Spike" is still very young and is full of energy.
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"Hannibal" is probably about 9 months to a year old. He was surrendered by his owner when he got too big and too costly. (Yeah, I know. Don't get me started)
He has a regenerated tail and like "Spike", that typical ebullient charm that Iguanas have.
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Both of these boys just need someone to spend time with tem.


The Red Tail boa was surrendered early last month. (Unsexed, but I've just called him "he" since he's been here.) His owner had seen our article in the local newspaper and contacted us to come an get him. He said he had found him as a baby in an apartment building he was renovating and had saved him from some of the other workers trying to kill him. He's had him for about 3 years and the whole time thought he was a ball python.
All things considered, though, this guy is in excellent condition. He has been given 2 doses of Panacur just as a precaution. He's readily eating F/T large rats and has a beautiful personality. He's right around 4 1/2 feet and weighs in at 5 pounds 14 ounces.
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If you are in the Mooresville, NC area and would like more information on any of these animals or can give them a good, loving home, please send me a pm or you can contact me personally at the number below.

Thank you!

Be blessed!
Ms. K, the Crazy Snake Lady
email address: [email protected]
contact number: 704-662-9821
 
im intrested in the RTB its one of my favorite snakes but I would also require shipping
 
Hello everyone!

Thank you for all the inquiries about the boa. He has found a new home locally.
We still have 2 young, ill-tempered little iguanas, though! (C'mon... Anybody?LOL)
 
You may want to verse yourself on Boa localities and identities.

That was not a Red-tail boa(BCC) but a Common Boa (BCI).
 
I'd love to. Can you recommend something that can actually teach anything? Haven't found anything that does more than tell me to "count the ventral scales". Or "this many saddles and widow's peaks and cheverons."
And those would be??
One person tells me "this is a red tail", the other person says "no it isn't."

How about, so no one gets offended, I just go with "Boa" or if thats too precise, "snake"?

I'll be sure to get educated and well versed in locales and IDs in between community events, defending our cause to town hall because of inbred hicks that don't want us here, answering phone calls, talking with other owners, intense record keeping, vet checks, etc.

I'm a RESCUE. I don't care about locale. I don't care about identification. I care about the animal. If I mislabeled it, my bad. I'm sure the entire breeding community will fall unsunder now because I'm ignorant of IDs and typed "Red Tail."

Now, I do apologize that I'm coming across snide and defensive. I'm usually not this way at all. But this week I have been pushed beyond any human's ability to cope, just to keep my animals and my rescue going. To have someone in my own community point out that I need to get schooled in ANYTHING right now is incomprehensible.

Theres no age on the boa. Theres no history on the boa. Theres no confirmation on the boa. He is a RESCUE. He's being ADOPTED.
Plain and simple.
 
heres the problem in the reptile world most people call it a red tail boa so thats what they know it as and thats what they tell everyone else snakeladyk is trying to take care of some animals and she called it the common name big deal. Im behind you snakeladyk you are doing wonderful work
 
Wow... Thank you, Nick. I really didn't mean to take that so personally.
I guess rescuers and rehabbers don't think the same way alot of others do. Morphs, localities, markers, hets.... None of that makes any difference.
What does make a difference is placing a healthy animal with a good family when 6 months earlier, that animal came in so sick we took turns holding it through the nights to monitor it's breathing. The tube feedings, the breathing treatments, administering medications, the vet appointments... The little milestones like when it starts eating on its own, gaining weight, responding positively to it's handler... These are whats important to us.
We care about what it is. Not what type it is.
I'm not saying localities, IDs, etc. aren't important factors. Breeders work hard to produce them and avid collectors are dilegent to find them.
Its just not what my main concern is.
If its not breathing, eating or holding itself upright, it doesn't matter if its a BCC or a BCI, hypo, het or hell-on-wheels, its still dying and thats not good.
 
As an ex permitted rehabber myself (over 10 years) the care of the animals is number one.

I take in all of the Reptile Rescues for 7 City Municipalities and 2 County Shelters. I also have a 4 hour training class that is taught to Texas Animal Control Officers a minimum of 4 times a year. I am not the local Craigslist teenager calling himself a rescue. In fact, I don't advertise being a rescue so as not to become overwhelmed by burms, boas, red-eared sliders, and green iguanas.

But as a person that makes their living educating people about reptiles and amphibians I believe in we should be more knowledgeable than your average pet store employee. The temperament and care of a true Red-tail (BCC) IS different than a Common Boa (BCI).

Calling a Common Boa a Red-tail is deceiving to the public and was started by
petstores as a sales "gimmick"! Those of us that were keeping boas 40 years ago were privy to the proper id of boas since the reptile stores back then were far and few between with true Red-tails being labeled with locales such as Peruvian, Suriname, Guyana, etc.

There are lot of books and websites with the proper info on this subject such as http://www.riobravoreptiles.com/care_raisingboas.htm.

Widow peaks are an easy marker for Red-tails along with belly patterns.

Forgive me for adhering to a higher standard and not wanting to deceive anyone.
 
so its more important to you to know exactly what boa it is not as improtant if it finds a home familiar with boas and large constrictors cause otherwise there is no reason to point that out on this thread and if you dont want the snake why point out a mistake that really isnt that big a deal go to a discsion forum and talk about exactly the diffrence between red tail and columbian I believe thats why they have those forums
 
Look. I didn't come on here to fight about red tails, commons, whatever. I came here to find a good home for a healthy, beautiful snake. I'm a human moron and mislabeled it. SHOOT ME!
I'm not overly educated with an alphabet behind my name. I'm a middle aged, fat, half-blood granma that loves her family and her animals more than life itself.
You feel free to have your higher standards, but to label me deceitful because I can't tell the difference between a BCC and a BCI concerning a snake that is being GIVEN away makes you sound like a pretentious jerk.
Had I put a $200 price tag on him, then you would have just cause to be calling me out as a deceiver, but I didn't.

The woman that adopted this snake, contacted me personally and told me what she thought he was and what distinguishing markers he had that showed it. When she came here to get him, she held him out to point out the markers and then looked at my other boas and showed me what distinguishing marks they had that could dictate where they came from.
A very kind thing to do, I think.
 
Yes, that would be me! The snake, which is definitely a Colombian, does have several "Jungle" characteristics. "He" is also very definitely a "she". Whether or not the characteristics are genetic, who knows? She looks very similar to one of my known male "low-expression" Jungle Boas, and if I breed her to one of my Jungles and get "Super-Jungles", I'll know for sure. She is a really pretty snake, considering that the guy who had her for so long thought she was a BALL PYTHON all that time and was feeding her wild-caught rodents. No one knows her true background. Yeah, if someone was trying to sell a regular Colombian Boa for big bucks and called it a "Red-Tail"(and yes, I have those, too, Surinames to be exact), it would bother me, but SnakeLadyK is definitely not trying to make money off of this snake, just wanting to find a good local home for her, so I'm not going to get my drawers in a wad over the symantics. Besides, I'm still having too much fun playing with this huge colony of Dubias I got from her-I love these darn things! They're like little Trilobites!

S.A. McKenzie
 
SnakeLadyK said:
Look. I didn't come on here to fight about red tails, commons, whatever. I came here to find a good home for a healthy, beautiful snake. I'm a human moron and mislabeled it. SHOOT ME!
I'm not overly educated with an alphabet behind my name. I'm a middle aged, fat, half-blood granma that loves her family and her animals more than life itself.
You feel free to have your higher standards, but to label me deceitful because I can't tell the difference between a BCC and a BCI concerning a snake that is being GIVEN away makes you sound like a pretentious jerk.
Had I put a $200 price tag on him, then you would have just cause to be calling me out as a deceiver, but I didn't.

The woman that adopted this snake, contacted me personally and told me what she thought he was and what distinguishing markers he had that showed it. When she came here to get him, she held him out to point out the markers and then looked at my other boas and showed me what distinguishing marks they had that could dictate where they came from.
A very kind thing to do, I think.
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I'm sorry you have such a difficult time with being educated about that which has brought us all here to this forum.

I'm not here to give you a hard time and have no desire to continue this discussion. I did not call YOU deceitful but if you look at craigslist ads you will see what I am talking about.

Good luck with your closed mind from an overweight 53 year old who has been keeping herps for over 45 years and am continually getting educated with an open mind.
 
Calling K closed minded couldn't be furthest from the truth. Its not the information you presented, its the manner in which you presented it.
You don't educate anyone by belittling them. K is one of the kindest, most generous people you would ever meet. Her downfall is she expects others to show the same.

You're right. This discussion needs to be over.
 
You're right. It doesn't matter anymore.
I'm watching my beautiful wife die slowly from a terminal illness and theres nothing I can do to stop it.
The least I can do is defender her honor.
 
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