Escaped snakes News24 article

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Re: Escaped snakes News24 article

Postby Nasicornis » Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:00 pm

If by "finding them together" you are referring to an exact spot in the room, then yes. Whenever one of my californian kings get out they tend to befriend any other escapies in a very special way.

If they were stolen, please post pictures of them on the site. Albino lavender retics are difficult to hide when they start to grow. Each has it's own unique color and pattern qnd thus you (or anyone seeing the pics) might be able to identify them should the guilty party decide to rather sell them than keeping them in his or her collection.
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Re: Escaped snakes News24 article

Postby Enigma » Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:41 pm

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One of the pythons have been found in the Angie's pool pump.

Let's hope the other is not to far away.
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Re: Escaped snakes News24 article

Postby mamba1 » Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:48 pm

Great news!!!!! I hope the other is found before winter sets in!!! There is always hope however, as I once had an adult male boa constrictor escape from my collection that survived an entire Gauteng winter before being recaptured by my brothers in my back yard!!!! I was extremely happy to see him again, although the feelings were very much one sided!!!!
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Re: Escaped snakes News24 article

Postby it_bit_me » Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:59 pm

If I'm gonna be an old, lonely man, I'm gonna need a thing, you know, a hook, like that guy on the subway who eats his own face. So I figure I'll be Crazy Man with a Snake, y'know. Crazy Snake Man. And I'll get more snakes, call them my babies, kids won't walk past my place, they will run. "Run away from Crazy Snake Man, " they'll shout!”
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Re: Escaped snakes News24 article

Postby Bushviper » Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:04 pm

Lets hope she actually spend money on a cage this time.
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Re: Escaped snakes News24 article

Postby Pieter89 » Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:40 pm

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Re: Escaped snakes News24 article

Postby Bushviper » Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:37 pm

So how big is your yard if you cannot find two 3 metre white snakes within a week? This despite having a specially trained sniffer dog come and only find one of them?

It looks like chocolate pudding but does not smell like it.
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Re: Escaped snakes News24 article

Postby Smeegle » Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:32 am

I agree, does not make sense at all. And in a pile of rubble nogal. Did they demolish a skyscraper in her back yard?
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Re: Escaped snakes News24 article

Postby Westley Price » Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:41 am

I am sure the company who owns the sniffer dog was mentioned and praised numerous times throughout the operation.

Business owners must think the public are real stupid not to realize this is a publicity stunt.
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Re: Escaped snakes News24 article

Postby Sico » Tue Apr 03, 2012 1:58 pm

I wonder if free-range burms are going to be "greener" than cage bred ones...
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