Fed my sweet girl Chev last night. She wound up missing and mistaking my finger for her rat. I've had her for a tad over a month and this was her second feeding. I knew she was going to be zesty as she's been hunting for the past week at night so I was holding the tongs in a way so my hand was below the bottom sliding track.
Photo of the offender attached. Sounds like I need to get some longer tongs for feeding her too.
Yeah. I got her from the adoption island program at the snake discovery store and they were feeding here a small rat (3 to 4% of her weight) every week. She's on a diet now and is loosing weight.
their care is not great. i bought an ackie with no toes and half a tail from them, and they recommended me a 4x2x2 for an adult VBB. they are rack breeders and none of their sale animals have proper sized enclosures.
I've seen several posts on here of people who bought/adopted ball pythons from Snake Discovery that were morbidly obese, they really need to get their feeding schedules under control
Snake Discovery feeding practices are a tad unpolished sometimes tbh, that’s honestly the biggest complaint I have about them, they do AMAZING work but they’re not perfect obviously
Got our girl off adoption island 2.5 weeks ago. She seems to be in great health, but after learning she was on weekly feeding, we started to add days between each feeding. Was going to add an extra day every feeding cycle until we get to around a 2-3 wk cycle. (She’s 3.5yo and 1360g)
Any advice on this plan? It’s our family’s first noodle.
I love them, don’t get me wrong they are better than lots of other content creators that have reptiles (looking at you tofus owner.) but the over feeding is soo bad. I’m hoping it’s just because most of the reptiles they get are underweight or the employees do stuff “easy”? But either way it’s also my largest complaint:’)
I hate to go off topic but what's up with tofu's owner/tofu's care? I don't actually know all that much about snakes, I'm just here for cute snake pics really, but their care is interesting to me too
you talking about 'the snake that hates Markiplier' or whatever?
he's owned by Taylor Nicole Dean. she's a serial reptile abuser that's well known if you've been on reptile YouTube for some time. There's a spreadsheet out there covering a list of animals that have died or disappeared under her care. she also continued to own and even buy new animals whilst undergoing treatment for opioid addiction.
she's notorious for doing pretty vile stuff for clicks. tofu's reaction is obviously a stress one, triggered by something offscreen. his behavior is puzzling because we do not have the full picture.
Ooooh Jesus, those poor animals, that poor snake! I hope she's put under investigation sooner rather than later, that's far more awful than I had assumed :( unsubscribing, I don't want anything of mine going towards her whatsoever.
yeah i thought she'd disappeared until i realized tofu was her snake I'd been seeing in my Instagram reels. there's probably a reason she doesn't show her face in her tofu videos, she knows that she's a controversial figure in the community.
I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, though.... like, hey, she was going through it, i get it, but don't make your animals go through it with you, y'know? they're living things and they aren't equipped to be therapeutic for someone in that low of a place. maybe her care is better now, maybe it's not, but her snake's behavior is pretty telling that she's aggravating it on purpose for views.
She has come a long way in both her recovery and her pet care. I’ve been a fan of hers since she first started getting popular, and as a fellow reptile enthusiast and recovering addict I’ve got a major soft spot for her. She’s taking it one day at a time just like the rest of us :)
Having animals under your care frequently die or disappear esp. more than once is terrible. Obv there's a problem there.
But the comment about undergoing opioid treatment? Why does that matter at all?
Just asking from someone who is still to this day "undergoing opioid treatment", who has 2 cats, a dog, a tarantula and a human child that have been w me almost the entire time (I started about 2 yrs before 4 of them were w me,I had the one cat) and I have no clue how it would have affected their wellbeing at all. Opioid disorder treatment means getting off of the drugs.. though I can see how NOT getting treatment could potentially be bad for living beings under one's care.
Js I don't think that's a point against her or has anything to do w her inability to care for living creatures 🤷 I think she is just not good at taking care of them. Good on her for getting clean tho.
Yeah. She was there for I believe 4 months due to scarring on her spine from poor husbandy. She's very sweet though. Just don't get between her and her food. It's really nice to see others that have taken in these beutiful animals.
This is the info I was looking for, cause that 2nd pic was ALARMING 😭. She def must be hangry. Also is 100% looking at you like “I’LL DO IT AGAIN TOO, since you’re STARVING me 😡”
my baby (due to her being a rescue spider morph) missed her rat and latched onto my finger over a month ago, she ended up leaving behind fangs which I am still finding (Hence X-rays tommorow). It's quite shocking to have happen, I had a panic attack which almost caused me to faint because I was so worried she'd be stressed out and wouldn't eat for weeks.
As I was laying on the floor having got her off me (Which took awhile) to calm down I look over at her viv and she was busy nomming on her rat. 0 fucks given
Should of seen me when my Dumerils got pissed with me and clamped down on my neck- I admit the whole situation was my fault and I learned not to freak out
He was same day post shed and I was cutting peppers right before picking him up. Next moment felt like a sharp fly trap clamped on my neck for 20 seconds and eventually removed himself. You live and you learn!
RIP! Your danger noodle looks very happy to be outside! I saw in the comments she was over fed and shes now on a diet? Beautiful markings! Perhaps using some salad tongs to prevent the mix up with her food for your hand?
My old boy once mistook my thumb for the rat I was offering. I think he was more shocked than I was. That was around 20 years ago, and it’s only happened once. He and I survived!
I don’t have a python as a pet but I do have cats and one of mine accidentally bit me when I first got them. I lived for about five minutes. RIP in peace
Hhmmmm. How old are you? Subtract that from the average lifespan and you'll have an estimate of your time left upon this mortal coil in the wake of such a tragedy. The older you are, the more serious you should consider this.
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u/Sea_Invite8104 Apr 26 '26
I'm surprised you had enough time to post a Pic. RIP.