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Traveling with Snakes

greymaiden

greymaiden

Love and Hisses
These past holidays I did a lot of traveling. I didn't want to leave Jormungand alone so I got a nice big travel cage and took him with me everywhere. Aside from gettting fat from all the christmas candy I fed him, he seems no worse for wear.

So I have two questions:

1) Any suggestions for traveling with snakes?

2) Is it just me, or does any one elses corn seem to LIKE riding in the car? Jorg actually waited until we were in the car to eat his last meal, and he just generally seems more relaxed, chill, and less shy when we're in the car.

Oh, and that part about feeding him christmas candy was a joke ;)

Jamie Lynn
who lives with Jormungand the fat
 
The only traveling I have done with snakes is to either drop off sold hatchlings or pick up snakes I have bought. The only thing I have had to basically concern myself with is the temp in the car. During the summer in Florida, it can get well over 100 F inside a car in a very short time. And naturally, the National Breeders Expo falls right in the middle of August. The drive there takes about 3 hours, 4 if we stop to eat. I transport any snakes I have with me inside styrofoam containers with several ice packs. I have the snakes in their plastic containers with plenty of aspen, then have plenty of crumpled newspaper around and over the containers. I put the ice packs mostly on top (cool air goes down). So far, every snake has done very well traveling this way. They don't over-heat and don't seem to get too cold (all very active upon arrival).

I learned this lesson the hard way. The first Expo I went to, I bought several hatchlings. The show was still in Orlando so the drive was only an hour and a half. I thought that the air conditioning in the car would be enough to keep them cool. I was wrong. Two hatchlings died within minutes upon my arriving home. They were the 2 on the top of the stack inside the bag. I rode home with the bag in the passenger seat. Just enough sunlight came through the windows, even driving home in the late afternoon, to overpower the cool air from the A/C and overheat the hatchlings.
 
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