Brentwood mom finds snake sleeping in crib with baby

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[DaveDragon]

Our kids would be excited to find that snake in their bed!! :mrgreen:

 

[Beazer]

We use to get those in my backyard aaaallll the time. Babies to adults. But since developement has pretty much taken over AZ I haven't seen any around my house. I even kinda noticed out herping I dont see as many. Cute little guys lol.

-Jon DeLong

 

[Azaleah]

Haha Brentwood is right near where my parents live!

But seriously, I watched the little video, and they were saying since it is an "exotic" animal it cannot be handled or adopted out. That seems just crazy to me, as though a baby cal-king is gunna hurt anyone? It deserves a permanent home...

 

[olympus]

Sounds to me like the baby is the one smuggling exotics.. :lol:

 

[Srakha]

I nearly emailed them and asked if they could ship it here! Cute lil guy. Just another example of how people overreact when they see a snake.

 

[DZLife]

Jeez, man....an exotic? Not adoptable? It's a friggin' Cali-King!

Not handleable my butt.

 

[ApriliaRufo]

Best part was that the mother said it was 4 feet long and animal control said it as just under one foot long.

 

[angelrose]

I would like to have the Cali it would match my tegus ...lol. but seriously I would like one.

 

[Kazzy]

Wow, they act as though it's poisonous. Gah, study up on your animals if you want to be an animal control officer...
My step-dad has a freakin' 6 ft female cali-king right now...it's gorgeous. HUGE king too.

 

[Mvskokee]

just another example on how snakes are so misunderstood

 

[Shannon]

I just got a baby Cal-King at the Hamburg show this past saturday. She's 11 inches long and very chill. I got her for $35...not bad i think. I'm keeping her in a 20 gallon long tank with several hides and paper towels for substrate. She's so tiny that I'm gonna have a hard time finding small enough pinkies in my breeding colony. Hopefully one of the female mice are pregnant. I had to kill off the rest of the mature males because we have so many mice. I'll probably end up freezing the pinkies I have now so they dont get too big to feed to her next week. We'll see what happens i guess...

 

[DaveDragon]

AWWW, we were planning on going to the Hamburg show but we couldn't justify the 4 hour drive each way (and the gas). I hope you had a good time.

 

[Shannon]

Yeah it was fun. The only thing was that it was very hot in there. I also saw a monitor of some sort in the same plastic tub as a B+W Argentine Tegu... the Tegu didn't look very happy and the monitor was trying to get out the whole time. They had a lot of columbian tegus there. The only Argentine's I saw were adults or almost adults. Lots of beautiful snakes as always. There was a gut selling tempguns there for $25, so I got one of those.

 

[DaveDragon]

I'm glad we didn't go. We went last august and MAN WAS IT HOT!!!!!!!!!! 90 degrees and high humidity.

The "Hots" are always cool to look at!

The TempGun is a great tool.

 

[HazyRep]

California King...an exotic?
Seriously? Whoever's going to talk about the snake, should KNOW something. I know they have to have a least one person in that animal control who knows reptiles. Just one? Come on...

Dangerous? Oh yes, very...about as dangerous as a corn snake of the same size. XD

Jeez...people...