ATTENTION! Chilling in muscadine and snakeman. :)

[luvmychicknkids]

LOL....yeah, I know what you mean. I kinda thought the sheds from his Ball Pythons were decent sized.....ummmm......not so much, now!!!! The ones from my Kingsnake seem positively TINY!!!

Oh yes, this is just the greatest online community in the world!!! Not many places you have members like this. Makes me very proud to be a part of it.

 

[chilling in muscadine]

We are so happy you love them Abraham. I already have you another shed thats drying now from the African puff adder and its beautiful. We are hoping this snake will shed a fang soon to but we will have to wait and see when. That snake is such a bad boy we will not argue with him about it.

That will be a shed that not to many people in this country can say they have.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

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OH MY.......I can't wait to show him this tomorrow!!! He will probably faint!!!

I can kinda imagine why you aren't going to encourage him to shed his fang!!! LOL You guys are just AWESOME!!!!!

 

[chilling in muscadine]

After his next package he will be able to make all his friends jealous and birdboy to.

When I saw this thread I went and woke Snakeman up.

Did he like the one that was cut better or the shed whole? We thought we would let him decide. The puff adder shed is cut down the bottom. Usually when displaying this is the way to do them.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

He and I discussed the way it was cut and how nice that would make it for display so he decided her REALLY liked it cut that way.

And I know it will certainly make them look nice in the cases I think I have figured out how to make.

These sheds are so much encouraging his love of snakes....which was already HUGE. If this child doesn't grow up somehow working with them I will be VERY surprised. He has been totallly fascinated with them since he could walk. You can't even begin to imagine how much you sending these means to him! He just can't wait to get them all mounted and hung on his walls and show off to all his friends!!! They think he is the coolest anyway just because he is the only kid in his class with a mom who lets him have pet snakes!!! LOL

He told me when he was about 5 that he REALLY wanted an Anaconda. I told him that would have to wait until he was grown because I didn't want something large enough to eat my children. So, about a week later he informed me "I thought about it, and if I have to choose between having kids and an Anaconda I am going to go ahead and choose the Anaconda".

Edited cause this was amazingly full of typos!!!! LOL

 

[gaited horse]

those are cool skins

 

[chilling in muscadine]

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We are equally excited about Abraham being happy about his sheds. It warms our hearts to make a childs day like that. We often run into children that we have given something snake related items to, sometimes years later and that child acts with excitment as if it had happend that day. Plus kids ALWAYS remember what we have taught them. They are really amazing. We have found that adults don't always recall the stuff we have said.

We are getting a chuckle out of the fact that the shed is longer than Abraham. With no children here that thought never crossed our minds when we packaged the sheds. Snakeman does like the big rattlers. {He is a man and big stuff, well..... ya know} lol We also have smaller rattlers that we could have sent a shed from. I'm thinking now that Abraham has a eastern diamondback shed, maybe a shed from the western diamondback would be way cool.

The thing about sheds is they don't always come off in one peice. You having snakes you will know what I mean. The Puff Adder shed is dry and I will save this for him and the Gaboom Viper is ready to shed soon. If this comes off in one peice I will save this too on our quest waiting for an impressive fang. I should by then be able to send a copperhead shed.

This time of year we often have people bring us dead ratters that have been run over by a car. Now why on earth people would think we would want a dead snake puzzles me. If by chance this does happen we can skin it and dry it out if Abraham would be interested in it and hopefully the rattlers will still be attached. Sometimes when this happens the snake is in to bad of condition to even skin it out. If we can not do this we can try for a set of ratters which are way cool. I will try and remember and send him some pics of the snake sheds I have sent to him. Don't hold me on the actual skin though because I can't promise this.

Oh, and when I was a kid my mom let us have snakes so we were way cool amonst our peers. lol Tell Abraham I will keep him updated on what I got going.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

Oh my......he will just LOVE anything he gets!!! We have actually tried to "harvest" a roadkill snake or two in the past but they are generally pretty beat up and awful looking so we have never been successful (not to mention I know NOTHING about skinning and preserving a skin from any animal LOL). But, we do stop and look at and mourn the loss of any roadkill snake we see. We are a strange family!!! LOL

LOL....he and I were both VERY surprised when we saw the shed was longer than him.

That was just too cool! I have not seen many that big in my life....just thinking you have this snake in your home excites him (and yes, his mom too) more than you can imagine!!!

The thought of a fang just thrills him!!!

But then all of this does.

when your box came and he read who it was from, he was practically squealing as he opened it.

It amazes me how few mom's let their kids have snakes......I guess to me it just seems pretty normal. LOL It is funny though, if it wasn't for me they wouldn't have them.

My husband is a big wuss when it comes to even my little king snake.

He will take care of them if I can't for some reason but he would rather not.

Again, thank you so much!!!! I can't say enough how much I appreciate you doing this for him. Anything you send him will be dearly loved and greatly appreciated!!!!

 

[chilling in muscadine]

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I do not see anything strange at all checking out the road kill on snakes. We will do the same thing to identify the snake and to see if it is possible that its a rattler to get the skin or rattlers.

I'll go you one a bit strange though. We will check out opossums that have been hit. We will check the pouch for babies. We have saved many baby opossums over the years. We will take them home and I would raise them inside a apron pocket {just like there mom carrying them} until they would no longer fit inside the pocket. I even got busted out inside a grocery store one time when the darn opossums would not stay inside the pocket. They had rested there little hands on the edge of the top of the pocket and were checking out what was going on.

Now that was a hilarous moment. I will neer forget it.

I'm sure I still get pointed out and talked about when I go back into that store. Oh well, they gotta talk about somebody right. Might as well be me.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

LOL.....oh dear dear.....nope, don't have me beat on that one.

I check EVERY opossum I see just to be sure. And (of course) a few pics.

This one, unfortunately, didn't make it.

This one, obviously, did.

I could hide him (and his siblings) in my hand when I first started waking every two hours to bottle feed and q-tip those tiny bottoms!!! LOL His name is Topaz, BTW.

He was really young in this pic.

Topaz as a baby.

With Abraham