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I found a python in my chicken coop this morning. Poor guy looked seriously starved and is eating as I type- went and got some mousicles. I know theres not much that can be said until I can get pics and have the camera cooperate with loading, but maybe some of the herp folks here will have a clue. He’s an albino, so there aren’t the colors/patterns that I would go by otherwise. He’s like a snow corn sort of- so pale that the pattern is washed out to almost nothing, can’t see any on his head but what’s kind of visible on the body looks like smallish circles along the spine. He’s youngish looking by size- maybe 2 feet range. Since the larger pythons/boas have been illegal here for awhile, it makes me lean away some from burm or retic- but then he could have been gotten anywhere/anyhow. Guess the owners weren’t too responsible for him to be in my back yard, and having an illegal one could be why no one is looking it seems. His temperament seems good, he gave me no problems picking him up. I don’t know enough to be sure python vs. boa.
Just what I needed, another mouth to feed… :p though he probably won’t stay long term. I am going to go slow/careful getting him back in better shape and finding someone for him though.I’d have to see a pic. It might not be a boa or python at all. It might be a type of colubrid, a rat snake or corn snake(albinism in the wild isnt common, but it IS heard of, especially in florida). He might not even be someones pet. But again, I’d have to see.
Albino burmeese python? Josh and I had one once, but she was young, and like other albino creatures, her health was fragile, so she didn’t live very long 🙁 She got mites really badly and the mite killer we tried had adverse effects on her.
If it let you pick it up, it was probably someone’s pet that got out. I’ll ask Josh. He was going to go to school to be a Herpatologist till he lost his scholarship-so he knows a LOT about snakes and could tell you based on its temperment, behavior, and length, what kind it is.
Here is an albino burmeese
Albino retic
Albino California King
What shape is its head? Round like a worm or more triangle? Does it have little “vents” near its mouth?
Sasha, boas most definately have teeth! The difference is mostly where they live. All I need is a pic of the snake and I can identify it.
Sasha, boas most definately have teeth! The difference is mostly where they live. All I need is a pic of the snake and I can identify it.
Oh yes they do! Ive gotten bitten by one of the baby red tailed boas we have. It hurt less than a cat scratch, but it was scary! One of them (a different one) bit Josh and he is still holding a grudge. (poor little guy was hungry and he had mouse smell on his hand. Cant blame him!)
My baby male Nicaraguan boa doesn’t need a reason, he just bites. Brandon got his very first snake bite from this one. So his name is Bitey. His intended mate, Nagini, is food aggressive but nowhere near as bad as Bitey.
Nicaraguan boa-sounds fancy! Our amazon tree boa is like that too. He’s beautiful yellows and oranges but hes fiesty! Once more proving that animals, like people, the prettier they are, the more ill tempered they are 😛
Pip-had any luck with the pictures yet?
Josh says that if you are in Florida (I appologise for not knowing 🙁 ) you can call the Fire Department-apparantly in Florida, there is a special section of the Fire Department that only handles reptiles and snakes. He recommends against letting it go back into the wild.
I have an amazon as well. His name is “Evil”. We’ll just leave it at that. LOL.
My rosy boa, on the other hand, is an absolute sweetheart. 🙂
I’ve got a sweet little sable ball python that I adopted from a friend. Although he’s a little head shy (most pythons are) he’s never bitten – even when my cat takes too much of an interest in him!
Pipsxlch, your newcomer is lucky to have found you! I know too many people who wouldn’t react very well to finding a snake anywhere, let alone their own yard 🙂
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Sorry it’s been a very very bad week, finally got a photo… we own a corn snake ands I know enough to know he’s not a colubrid, and no way I’d re-release him- released exotics is a majopr problem here. Besides, he seems extremely happy to be back in captivity, with heat pads and yummy food that doesn’t bite back 😛
He’s very tame and easily handled, not as timid as a ball python usually is, not nasty like some, the photo shows the pattern easier than the eye can see it, a little like a redtail’s?
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