My snake just might have regurgitated!!!

[marisa]

"The way I see it if it says sand in the name of the herp there is a good chance it will be more comfertable on sand."

HAHAHA that's is the silliest thing I have ever heard. Because humans assigned a name to an animal, that animal must love the name and live according to it! uM yeah right....makes a big 0 sense. Maybe I should go out and get some corn for my cornsnakes to live in.

"bam you ar now asphixiating your animal. But it never Hapend to Marisa so it must be safe well it hapend to me I cut the shed off and I saw this blue line all the way around the animals skin. "

Oh that's exactly how I wrote my post wasn't it? It didn't happen to me so it can't happen! (Note, just in case you dont understand my big words, that was sarcasm)

I have never ever heard of a snake killiling itself because someone fed it during shed. EVER. In fact, many many people everyday feed in shed, and none mention this problem or have it. Maybe your snakes enviroment was insanely too dry. Wet snake skin is extremely "stretchy" and pliable, and if your snakes skin was so tight on its body it caused strangulation, your air and the skin was WAY too dry which caused the skin to become dry, brittle and tight.

"Now this will sound realy crule and heart less and I am NOT telling you to go out and do it but if you put your finger directly on a snakes eye at any given time you are only touching a lense cause snakes have no eye lids so there is a lends there to protect the actual Eye it self, so when you are poking at worst you are leaving a finger print and any scratch left buy sand would be shead away and it is the same effect for geting sand in the eyes the lens is there for that exact reason to PROTECT. think of all the sharp rock's they encounter in the wild and thorn bushes and what not. Don't come hear and try to tell this kid that just Because he has a captive snake that there bodies stoped doing what they were desinged to do."

Are you serious? You think its o.k. for sand or other debris to get into a snakes eye because they deal with it in nature? You have never ever heard of eyes of snakes being infected? Sorry but they have been. I am not saying his snakes eyes are in danger. I am giving him ALL the facts and risks of housing on sand. Again sorry you had difficulty understanding that. The POINT of captivity is to eliminate the risks of the wild to our best possible abilities. If you are not interested in that, that's nice for you, but I find it sad.

Good luck
Marisa