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Jet, my baby frosted pretzel 💕

Heterodon nasicus

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sterrinswildworldThe puff adder (B. arietans) has a very cool locomotion. They can move like other snakes, from side to side, but primarily use this caterpiller form. They might look sluggish but they can actually be really fast if they want to. They can also swim and climb. ❤️🐍❤️

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[Animal Death]

Snickerdoodle passed away last night.  I can’t say I didn’t see it coming.  even after she was cleared of her RI and started eating regularly, she wasn’t putting on any weight or improving body condition. It’s not possible for me to say if she was permanently damaged by being ill for a long time before I got her, or if she was already a sick snake and the RI was just another symptom of it.  In the end, I’m disappointed, but I’m glad I was able to give her a better chance, and she likely gained a year she wouldn’t have otherwise had.

RIP sweet baby, you deserve the rest.

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Story Time: Mail Dubias

This is a hilarious AF story about how the USPS once lost a box of my bugs and had extreme regrets.  If you are bug phobic, this is your warning.  There’s no photos of the bugs, just the poor mangled box.

Lets begin! Some of you probably remember earlier this year I lost a shipment of dubias.  Since I was busy working with the seller on what the heck to do about that I forgot to ever post the full story.  It’s great, I promise.

In Jan I ordered a shipment of dubias like usual, and it’s normally only 2 days to get here.  By the 4th day in the mail I’m wondering what is the hold up, but also figure hey, holiday rush is still on, no biggie.  Now, these only have to go from Kansas to Oklahoma, so when I pull up the tracking info I’m surprised to find they detoured to Cali.  No biggie they’ll be a little late until the box totally disappeared.

There was suddenly no tracking info available for this package, it vanished into the postal system along with my 200 dubia.  After a week of live bugs being in the mail I’ve given them up as unlikely to arrive alive.  By the 2nd week I’ve accepted they are never coming home.  This is where I am wrong. 

I get a mystery package, not that unusual honestly.  But the damaged notice?  Now that was odd indeed!  Opening the box was pretty crazy too:

Weird a garbage bag? WAIT A FAMILIAR GREEN STICKER!

By George it’s those lost dubia, poor bastards. Now at this point I should have known something was up, I mean why bags?  Why 2 bags?  But the only thing I can do is sit here and look at this poor destroyed box.

THOROUGHLY destroyed might I add. Also very slightly soggy?  It was raining in Cali at the time it was there though, this makes some sense.  Likely got left out somewhere. But wow it sure got a number done to it! 

Now I’ll have to make a note here, the company I buy from does 2 things that are highly relevant here.  Firstly, they send a small deli cup of food for your bugs with every shipment.  Secondly, they also put a smaller box inside the larger one that contains the bugs.

Dubia food: busted open and missing.  Inner box: OPEN.  Bugs: ALIVE but half are missing

SUDDENLY THE BAGS MAKE SENSE.  SUDDENLY I REALIZE SOMEWHERE A POSTAL WORKER HAD A BOX LEAKING DUBIAS ALL OVER THEIR POST.  I LAUGHED SO HARD I CRIED.

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Steve Irwin would have been able to lift Mjolnir, reblog if you agree.

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Congrats!

MEET JACK!!! Elaphe schrenckii!!!!! The smallest snake I have ever owned! He is so soft and fragile, I feel like twitching my fingers wrong would squish him 😭😬

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i was going to send you an ask like CurlieCueCal Six Years ?????? but then i read your tags and !!! snake ! i didnt know you had a snake? post some pics maybe ? tell her i love her ?

He lives with my friend rn because of landlord issues. (Her snake used to live with me b/c same, so we’ve now swapped.)

He’s an anery motley corn snake and his name is Mercutio. :33

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Kombucha - Leopard ph blood (boa imperator)

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Sidecar, on the other hand, is a very feisty boy with no time for nonsense.

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FAMILY PHOTO

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baby!

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Kombucha - Leopard ph blood (boa imperator)

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Apophis is so shy~ (male banana ball python)

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loaf

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Secunda is an absolute DARLING!!! look at that face!

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dear good omens fandom,

snakes don’t have eyelids.

thanks.