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Oh, Craigslist...

Wow he looks thin and not perfectly healthy... He looks really small to be a full grown corn, as the ad states. Poor dude =/
 
UGH. I'm not in a place to take in another rescue/rehab yet, but it's tempting because it's so hard to see skinny snakes. :(
 
Sooooo...today I brought home that skinny, small, and rather beat-up boy I posted about last week. Yup, I'm a sucker. He's a really pretty boy, too...look forward to how he improves over the next few months.

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multiple species cohabbing

Okay, I know this isn't strictly Craigslist, but short of starting a new thread, I figured this was the best place for it. Really it's just an "oh my God" picture that I came across on Google, and then read the thread and my jaw dropped even further. One guy has a corn snake, a house snake, and a ball python all living together. (But it's okay because the corn snake only tried to eat the house snake once, and the ball python only gets RI's occasionally.) Then further down the page another guy has NINE corns and texas rat snakes living together. All under a year old I think. I'll leave it to you all to say what I'm thinking. While I've read lots of stories about cohabbing that works, I doubt this is how it's done.

http://www.sareptiles.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25742
 
I find in Europe that cohabbing is the norm...to house completely different species together is completely assinine and especially when habitat is different....saying they are cozying up together is just a load of crap...the hide they all want is the temp they all want...I've yet to find a multiple pile of cornsnakes together...EVER....and I've not found any species of snake cohabbing in the wild with the exception of watersnakes....which in their case, they are sharing sunning spots and food sources are not as difficult as with land based snakes.
 
Cohabbing different snake species is over the top of the limit. How little has someone to understand about snakes to cohab different species and say they are so cute when they cuddle together...? Plus what you said, different habitat needs for each one... Just gosh...

I don't really know if cohabbing is the norm in Europe, but I think the problem is reading material availability. Such a big territory as is Europe with that lot of languages is actually a problem. Most snake books and good sites are in English or German, and some fewer in French, but all the other countries don't usually have good material and kids that buy a snake won't know English well enough to read a snake book, nor will the parents be educated enought to know they have to read somewhere how to care for their snakes. Moreover, snakes are easily available in reptile expos and normal pet shops.

I had to turn to this site because almost all the Spanish sites about herpetology, where supposed experts who have kept snakes for decades comment, were full of b****t like that you find in Craigslist... I don't even want to visit them because I facepalm so hard every time... And we have a Craigslist equivalent where you see people reproducing their snakes in such bad conditions and selling the poor hatchlings to anybody without care directions...
The problem is not limited to the US, I feel it's a global thing.
 
I thought it was something on the table at first, but then looking more closely I saw it's visible in several shots. There's some sort of scabby growth on the snake. :(

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That is what I was wondering.. poor snake.. :(
I was thinking snow but it looks like its in shed too.. would't surprise me with that thing on it's back.. sighs. what's wrong with people..
 
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