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Info Need some advice on a situation involving Alea Rodriguez.

I have never said I was going to keep them, several people kept trying to get me to sell them and I said NO not unless she relinquished ownership and she obviously hasn't. I have never had any intention of keeping them. So her threat to ruin me over keeping them was completely unwarranted and she knows that. That threat was what started all f this. Had she not threatened me I would have let it all go, and even after she threatened me I tried to be civil until she refused to even read what I had to say and be civil in return.

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Everyone has gathered this from all the posts and Screenshots. At this point it's beating an already dead horse. You have agreed to house them until 1) the weather breaks or 2) until spring comes along and prime shipping returns all under the condition that Alea pay for a new box, and shipping. Which is completely fair. Now to have alea agree to the terms and we can wrap this up.
 
For the record, I find it distasteful for people to suggest she should ship these animals back regardless of their potential care or weather because they are not her animals and should not be her concern.

That is not how we should be viewing these animals' lives.
And that is why I said I don't want to send them now several have said it would be fine and to ship them and get them off my hands. Sorry I care far to much about the animals I've been caring for for 9 months, keeping them happy, healthy, and growing, to send them to potential death. She says she doesn't have money right now anyways so wuldnt I be forced to cover the shipping and materials? How would she house them if she doesn't have money to buy caging? Everyone wants to make me the bad guy but it seems people don't care if those animals will have appropriate caging, heat, and food and I do so that makes me the bad guy. What would the humane society do if you didn't have appropriate housing, food, etc for your dog? Take it. I'm not trying to take them, I just want them to be able to be cared for when they go back and not have their lives risked just to shut her up

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I do believe someone stated earlier on how to make temp housing until she can afford a cage. At this point the animals are in your care, once they are back to alea no one here can speculate on if, when, how, and why, the animals are cared for as this thread was made for the purpose of advice on a situation. Not the situation of how or how she can or cannot care for them. I feel absolutely inhumane for saying that. But i believe what you are saying is technically considered off subject to what is at hand. Don't quote me on it. I am not admin.
 
... Everyone wants to make me the bad guy but it seems people don't care ...

Statements like this one are probably why some people are telling you to step aside and try to clear your head before moving forward.

I personally am very sympathetic to you wanting to care for the animals - I think you handled some aspects of this conflict very poorly, but I have utmost respect and confidence that it is the animals' well-being that you are most concerned with. However, when you become immediately defensive and generalize, as seen in the statement above, it is excessively hard to reason with or find a compromise.
 
Statements like this one are probably why some people are telling you to step aside and try to clear your head before moving forward.

I personally am very sympathetic to you wanting to care for the animals - I think you handled some aspects of this conflict very poorly, but I have utmost respect and confidence that it is the animals' well-being that you are most concerned with. However, when you become immediately defensive and generalize, as seen in the statement above, it is excessively hard to reason with or find a compromise.
Thank you for taking that completely out of context and using it against me. I'm done here.

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I do believe someone stated earlier on how to make temp housing until she can afford a cage. At this point the animals are in your care, once they are back to alea no one here can speculate on if, when, how, and why, the animals are cared for as this thread was made for the purpose of advice on a situation. Not the situation of how or how she can or cannot care for them. I feel absolutely inhumane for saying that. But i believe what you are saying is technically considered off subject to what is at hand. Don't quote me on it. I am not admin.
So I'm supposed to knowingly send animals to a situation where they can't be cared for properly? And if she wanted them back so bad she could have done that months ago NOT BUY NEW ANIMALS

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2 scorpions, 2 balls, 2 more leopard geckos yea they were rescued and that's good and all, a new Brazilian rainbow boa, a king snake, and I believe another spider. Why wasn't that money put to the animals she was supposed to get back?

Again I don't want them, but people need to look at the other side of this, instead of her trying to get them back as soon as she could, which is what was the basis for this was, she chose to take in and purchase new animals and fill cages her snakes I have should have gone into.

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I don't think anyone will hold it against you to wait until Spring to ship the animals back. But you are coming off as really defensive toward people who aren't being critical of you. I don't think of you as being a "bad guy" here but the drama needs to be toned down still.
 
But think about it, if she wanted them back so badly, why was she taking in new animals, deny the offer to take 3 back when she had cages for them instead of fill them, and now act like trusting me was the worst thing. She has FORCED me to care for them longer by taking in those animals instead of getting the cages needed to get these ones back. And now wants them back asap, well that could have been done months ago had she bought the things needed for these ones, agree?

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2 scorpions, 2 balls, 2 more leopard geckos yea they were rescued and that's good and all, a new Brazilian rainbow boa, a king snake, and I believe another spider. Why wasn't that money put to the animals she was supposed to get back?

Again I don't want them, but people need to look at the other side of this, instead of her trying to get them back as soon as she could, which is what was the basis for this was, she chose to take in and purchase new animals and fill cages her snakes I have should have gone into.

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That is another BOI topic entirely. You asked for advice on the topic pertaining to her threatening you and you retaliating, asking for payments for care until know and we find a resolution one to which you agreed on and this is what comes out of it. The topic you posted only asked for advice for the situation at hand. Not how can alea take care of her animals situation. I think you missed the point of this BOI thread. I even said I felt inhumane for saying that but we cannot speculate on it because one we have no idea if she can or cannot afford it when she recieves her animals. If she has snakes already that would lead me to believe that she has feeder mice/rats, and that the only thing lacking is that she does not have enclosures.

Someone else already pointed out how to make temporary enclosures until she can afford bigger ones.

I am going off of what is said here in this thread. Not jargon and hearsay. Is this post for advice and help or is this post about questioning aleas herping practices or ability to tend to her animals? That is literally the last thing I will say here for the night. As to me this is growing more and more like a mud fight than a conflict resolution that you asked for and agreed to.
 
That is another BOI topic entirely. You asked for advice on the topic pertaining to her threatening you and you retaliating, asking for payments for care until know and we find a resolution one to which you agreed on and this is what comes out of it. The topic you posted only asked for advice for the situation at hand. Not how can alea take care of her animals situation. I think you missed the point of this BOI thread. I even said I felt inhumane for saying that but we cannot speculate on it because one we have no idea if she can or cannot afford it when she recieves her animals. If she has snakes already that would lead me to believe that she has feeder mice/rats, and that the only thing lacking is that she does not have enclosures.

Someone else already pointed out how to make temporary enclosures until she can afford bigger ones.

I am going off of what is said here in this thread. Not jargon and hearsay. Is this post for advice and help or is this post about questioning aleas herping practices or ability to tend to her animals? That is literally the last thing I will say here for the night. As to me this is growing more and more like a mud fight than a conflict resolution that you asked for and agreed to.
No, it's not. It pertains to this situation and why I still have them. Again nice try

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You are so childish omg!!!! FOR EVERYONE'S INFO MY SNAKES ARE AT HER HOUSE BECAUSE I HAD NO OPTION BUT TO SELL THEM AND SEND THEM TO HER... CLEARLY I SHOULD HAVE SOLD THEM. THEY ARE STILL THERE BECAUSE MY LIVING SITUATION IS NOT GOOD OUR HOUSE IT UP FOR SALE AND MY HUSBAND WORKS IN ANOTHER STATE!!! Elexis OFFERED to care for them knowing I had hardly any money any snakes that's been aquired since has been rescues, or gifts from someone else not bought with my own money. When I had to send all my reptiles to her all my caging was stolen 1000$ worth. Not to mention she got a free hypo red tail for doing it for me despite me not having a single bit of money to help her!!!! When I did have money I asked if they needed anything she wouldn't even tell me!!!! I ordered stuff for them on 2 different occasions because she told me they needed something!!! If I could provide it I did and now she's doing this because I told her to go screw herself after choosing a group over friend ship..... oh hey wanna hear something funny the huge boa she has that she is breeding that she doesn't know it's genetics came to her with mites..... I helped her by buying her a bottle of reptile relief because she didn't have any money to get anything... yet I'm the bad person...... YOU OFFERED TO DO THIS FOR ME AND ARE NOW THROWING A TEMPER TANTRUM SERIOUSLY ELEXIS GROW UP!!! THE ONLY REASON THEY AREN'T ON THEIR WAY TO MY HOUSE RIGHT NOW IS BECAUSE IT'S TO COLD!!!! GET OVER YOURSELF!!!

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I think you should return them for your own sake, not because she hasn't sent mixed signals about it (which she has). This won't end until she has the animals back and no longer has anything to harass you about. Keeping them any longer than absolutely necessary would just be punishing yourself.
 
As I stated we discussed it before hand she said as long as I needed and I let her know daily what was going on..... I have half the caging for them already but haven't had the money yet to buy more for the bigger ones I thought I was doing the right thing leaving them in her care since we were both ok with it!!! She even attempted to use my male boa for breeding!!! I was OK with that but now she's pulling this.... if i could get them shipped to me I would but I can't and I've had someone working on it for 4 days to hold them for me till it warms up and I pay them to care for them.

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Reason 2 In Alea's on words from here. I am going off what has been posted in here. She has stated her reasons, sje has stated that she was originally waiting for her house to sell and spring. I do not see why her getting them when she pays for shipping and weather is favorable is an issue.
 
Coming from personal experiences with these kinds of situations, the both of you need to drop your pride. Elexis wants Alea to pay for the future expenses of her animals. Thats only the sensible thing to do... Alea, honestly, free or not, you should not have been taking in new animals when you're not paying for your own. Regardless of what you paid for the animal, it is still expense out of your pocket (food, and caging) taken away from the problem at hand. We all want to save animals we see being neglected, yet honestly we cant save them all. I suggest a contract be written out between the two of you for the time duration till shipping weather returns. This situation is petty, and has probably cost you both your friendships. As ive come to learn over the countless headaches with situations like this with friends, i say never agree to care for a friends animals free of charge. No matter how good of friends you are. The stress that comes with it is not worth it.
 
Reason 2 In Alea's on words from here. I am going off what has been posted in here. She has stated her reasons, sje has stated that she was originally waiting for her house to sell and spring. I do not see why her getting them when she pays for shipping and weather is favorable is an issue.
No, she never let me know daily, that's another lie. In fact if I didn't send her updates every time they ate, shed, popped, etc she wouldn't know anything about them. She rarely asked about them. I sent pictures now and then, that she rarely ever asked for.

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No, she never let me know daily, that's another lie. In fact if I didn't send her updates every time they ate, shed, popped, etc she wouldn't know anything about them. She rarely asked about them. I sent pictures now and then, that she rarely ever asked for.

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And it's funny she's willing to pay that other person but not me? Why? She says me wanting coveted for the rats is holding them hostage, but will pay someone else??

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And she didn't sell me squat, also her having them given or rescued is another lie, she paid for the scorpions and told me how she was ordering them from a friend, the king snake she says her mom bought, why couldn't her mom buy a cage for one of hers instead then? The brb I can't remember but I believe she said she bought it, the ball she bought as a rescue, the one king was bought to rescue it, not sure if she spent money on the geckos to rescue them, but still she spent money on animals, on food, on things they needed to make them healthy again yet couldn't afford her own snakes?

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And she didn't sell me squat, also her having them given or rescued is another lie, she paid for the scorpions and told me how she was ordering them from a friend, the king snake she says her mom bought, why couldn't her mom buy a cage for one of hers instead then? The brb I can't remember but I believe she said she bought it, the ball she bought as a rescue, the one king was bought to rescue it, not sure if she spent money on the geckos to rescue them, but still she spent money on animals, on food, on things they needed to make them healthy again yet couldn't afford her own snakes?

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There was 2 kings, one from months ago her mom supposedly bought, and one recently she paid to rescue. That's 2 scorpions, 2 balls, 2 kings snakes so that makes 3 king snakes including the one she didn't send with everyone else because I didn't have room, a brb, and I know she bought tubs and such to house them all, so why couldn't she do that for hers while getting all these new animals? She forced me to keep these, she gladly paid for anything those new animals needed but left me to foot the bill for the 6 here only buying bedding like twice. I want to send them back, again if she will purchase the necessary supplies, like a box for apollo the large male boa, and a couple for the other smaller ones, the brb and dumerils could probably fit in a medium box, and a box for the small 3, and I will gladly ship them back.

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