I know i probrably shouldnt even order gecko's over the winter months but let me just share an experience with you.
I bought 2 albino baby fat tails. First of all the person I ordered it from was in florida and unknow to me was under investigation by the Feds. Well due to this mans apparently large business dealing with imported rare animals and drug smuggling my shipment of these 2 babies was held up at the airborne substation. They were holding the packages for us to either show up and open them or for their inspectors to get there the next day. One of the babies was upside down and nearly dead.
The next day the FBI contacted me asking me all about this guy and why I had sent him so much money via paypal. His dealings were not being reported as income and the FBI and IRS were after him for numerous offenses. He by the way sells on Kingsnakes.com I did notify kingsnakes but they have not done anything about his postings and in fact allow him to keep posting.
My 2nd bad experience this week was a half dead bright organe african fat tail that was imporperly packed. There were no holes what so ever in the box and the heat pack was on the bottom of the box keeping the newspaper warm and thats about it. The poor thing was upside down and had deficated. Took my daughters very warm hands and alot of hot breathing on it to bring it back.
Please if you ever get an animal that is upside down and curled up try to revive it. Unless it is stiff as a board and white looking there may still be a chance of reviving the animal. This has happend to me 2xs this week alone and each time it took several minutes and allot of heavy breathing but we got them to come back. It was devistating but it thankfully we didnt give up and they made it.
As for the 2 people who shipped these animals to me? I have notified them that I will never do business with them ever again.
If I could find the place here to post the names of those people and the problems I had with them I certainly would post it. The purpose of this posting is to just inform all of you who buy and ship during these cold months to please please properly pack these animals. Put the proper heat pack in there and if you need to put in 2 put in 2... put them close to the animals and not burried under loads of newspaper. All your heating up is paper. Please put holes in the boxes for the animals...... we love these creatures and certainly dont want them to arrive dead or near death.
Had my friend not called me up to tell me how hers arrived half dead and how she warmed them up in her hands to bring them back i surely would not have known to do so and would have figured they were dead.
Veronica Davidson
I bought 2 albino baby fat tails. First of all the person I ordered it from was in florida and unknow to me was under investigation by the Feds. Well due to this mans apparently large business dealing with imported rare animals and drug smuggling my shipment of these 2 babies was held up at the airborne substation. They were holding the packages for us to either show up and open them or for their inspectors to get there the next day. One of the babies was upside down and nearly dead.
The next day the FBI contacted me asking me all about this guy and why I had sent him so much money via paypal. His dealings were not being reported as income and the FBI and IRS were after him for numerous offenses. He by the way sells on Kingsnakes.com I did notify kingsnakes but they have not done anything about his postings and in fact allow him to keep posting.
My 2nd bad experience this week was a half dead bright organe african fat tail that was imporperly packed. There were no holes what so ever in the box and the heat pack was on the bottom of the box keeping the newspaper warm and thats about it. The poor thing was upside down and had deficated. Took my daughters very warm hands and alot of hot breathing on it to bring it back.
Please if you ever get an animal that is upside down and curled up try to revive it. Unless it is stiff as a board and white looking there may still be a chance of reviving the animal. This has happend to me 2xs this week alone and each time it took several minutes and allot of heavy breathing but we got them to come back. It was devistating but it thankfully we didnt give up and they made it.
As for the 2 people who shipped these animals to me? I have notified them that I will never do business with them ever again.
If I could find the place here to post the names of those people and the problems I had with them I certainly would post it. The purpose of this posting is to just inform all of you who buy and ship during these cold months to please please properly pack these animals. Put the proper heat pack in there and if you need to put in 2 put in 2... put them close to the animals and not burried under loads of newspaper. All your heating up is paper. Please put holes in the boxes for the animals...... we love these creatures and certainly dont want them to arrive dead or near death.
Had my friend not called me up to tell me how hers arrived half dead and how she warmed them up in her hands to bring them back i surely would not have known to do so and would have figured they were dead.
Veronica Davidson
